Afranaph Workshop III- Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 May 2021 19:39
The Afranaph Project Development Workshop III will be held on December 13-14, 2019 at Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
The Third Afranaph Project Development Workshop is supported by a grant from the National Science foundation, BCS-1844235 and the Afranaph Project as a whole is supported by NSF BCS-1829122.
About the Workshop
The Afranaph Project, which was founded in 2003 and was originally designed to explore empirical patterns of anaphoric phenomena in the languages of Africa, has expanded its empirical scope in the past two years to by launching five Afranaph Sister Projects, which are explorations into other domains of grammar in the languages of Africa. The purpose of this workshop is to encourage the development of new research that exploits and/or expands our data and our database, to consider proposals for new domains of research that suit our methodology and resources, and to bring together those who have worked on Sister Projects or on languages that Afranaph has elicited data for. The talks will report on the work of existing Sister Projects, will propose new Sister Projects, or will address research questions that arise in the investigation of languages currently in our case files (or that soon will be).
Although funding has been secured for 2018-2021, we will also have a business meeting to discuss a framework for funding of the project over the long term and to consider how the project can be developed over the next several years to better serve the research community. Our workshop welcomes the participation of linguistic theorists, linguists specializing in comparative African linguistics, and native speaker language consultants already working with our project (with the understanding that these are usually overlapping categories)..Besides those participating in the project and speaking at the workshop, the general; public is welcome to attend. There is no conference registration fee.
If you require English-ASL interpreting services or any kind of accommodations, please email Christiana McGrady at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The deadline for requesting ASL interpretation is Friday, December 6th. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill all requests.
