3rd Afranaph Project Development Workshop: Preliminary Program

All events in Intercultural Center Auditorium

December 13  
9-9:30 Introduction to Afranaph and State of the Project
Ken Safir
9:30-10  Tense and Aspect in Akan  (handout)
Augustina Owusu
10-10:30 Tense-aspect Marking in Babanki  (handout)
Pius Akumbu
10:30-11  Coffee break
11-12 New Research Topic: The Syntax of Having    (handout)
Patricia Schneider-Zioga and Philip Ngessimo Mutaka
12-1:30 Lunch (not provided)
1:30-2 Anaphors in Urhobo (handout)
Rose Aziza and Eseoghene Aleh
2-2:30 The Anaphora System in Ibibio (handout)
Willie Udo Willie
2:30-3 Coffee Break
3-3:30 Evidence for polarity head: On the interaction of A'-movement and negation in Igbo (handout)
Mary Amaechi
3:30-4 New Research Topic: In-depth investigation of modality in African languages (handout)
Lydia Newkirk
4:30-6 Poster Session (Poulton 230)

 

December 14  
9-9:30 Focus constructions in Akan
Kofi Busia Abrefa
9:30-10 Complementizers and Interrogative Clauses in Avatime (handout)
Blake Lehmann, Travis Major, and Harold Torrence
10-10:30 Valency decreasing derivations and middles in Limbum (handout)
Francis Wepngong Ndi
10:30-11 Coffee break
11-12 New Research Topic: Actual Clauses
Justine Sikuku, Joseph Wanyonyi, and Ken Safir
12-1:30 Lunch (Not provided)
1:30-2 A theory of (c)overt object pronouns in Kwa: Evidence from Gã (handout)
Sampson Korsah
2-2:30 Contrasting (Doubled) Clitics & Agreement Affixes: A View from Tigrinya Pronominal Affixes
Keffyalew Gebregziabher
2:30-3:10 Afranaph Sister Project Progress Report: Object Marking  (handout)
Michael Diercks, Justine Sikuku, Kang “Franco” Liu, and David Langa
3:10-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4 Possession and Nominalization in Dan: Evidence for a General Theory of Categories (handout)
Mark Baker and Bleu Gondo
4-4:30 The distribution and function of "noun class" morphology in Shupamem (handout)
Benjamin Macaulay and Hagay Schurr
4:30-5:30 New Research Topic: Agreement with Conjuncts (handout)
Vicki Carstens
5:30-6 Afranaph Board Meeting (Open to all)
7-10 Banquet (Copley Formal Lounge)

 

Poster Session:  

Wh-movement in Ga
Hana Altalhi

Negation in Defoid Languages (handout)
Bolanle Arokoyo

Vowel hiatus at word boundaries and prosodic structure in Ikpana (handout)
Bertille Baron 

Prosodic Alignment in Nobiin (handout)
Maya Barzilai

A new allophonic alternation in Lingala (handout)
Sarah Bellavance

Pre-verbal affixes in Kĩmwĩmbĩ (handout)
Ann Hildah Kinyua and Fridah Erastus 

Two Deverbal Nominalization Structures in Ga
Lydia Felice

The interface between inflection and derivation in the Kinasukuma noun class system
Peji Lunyili

Investigation into causative constructions (handout)
Hazel Mitchley

Ergative case-marking and antipassive voice: a view from Grassfields Bantu (handout)
Hagay Schurr and Ben Macaulay 

Morphologically conditioned vowel length in Ga (handout)
Katherine Russell

Extended projections and verb movement in Guebie imperatives
Ivy Wang 

Regressive Low Tone Spreading in Ga
Luopeng Zheng

 

Sponsors

National Science Foundation

Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University

Office of Global Engagement, Georgetown University

Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University