13th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University May 04-06, 2017
Final Program for 13th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University May 04-06, 2017 Venue: Desalegn Hotel 2
Thursday, May 4, 2017
8:00 – 9:00 | Registration | ||
9:00-10:00 | Opening SessionChairman of the Organizing Committee
President of Addis Ababa University Opening speech: H.E. Dr. Hirut Wolde-Mariam Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
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10:00-11:00 | Plenary Talk: Rainer Vossen, University of FrankfurtHistorical Reconstruction of Nilotic Languages: a review
Chair: Moges Yigezu |
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11:00-11:30 | TEA BREAK | ||
Nubian PanelChair: Angelika Jakobi | Western NiloticChair: Jane Ngala Odour | Koman Chair: Torben Anderson | |
11:30-12:00 | Abeer Bashir & Ishag AbdelrahmanUniversity of Khartoum
Tones in Kàrgèdí: A dialect of Midob (Darfur Nubian) |
Helga SchroederUniversity of Nairobi, Kenya Revisiting Talmys Verb and satellite frame typology | Justin GoldbergSIL International
Body Part Lexemes in T’apo (Opuo): from Referring to Non-referring |
12:00-12:30 | Muhammad Jallal HashimUniversity of Khartoum
Loss of Tonal Features in Nobiin |
Tatiana ReidUniversity of Survey (UK)
Nuer vowels: phonetic facts and morphological systematicity |
Melese GelanehBahir Dar University
Noun categorization in Tapo |
12:30-13:00 | Thomas Kuku (Abdalla) Alaki,SIL Sudan
Taang (Tabaq) Phonology
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Mathew BaermanUniversity of Survey (UK)
Vocalic gradation in western Nuer nouns |
Joshua SmoldersSIL International
Nominal Number and Pluractionality in the Tʼapo (Opuo) Verb Stem
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13:00-14:00 | LUNCH | ||
Afternoon | |||
14:00-15:00 | Plenary Talk: Doris Payne, University of OregonMaa Clause Combining: The “Low Tone” versus “Infinitive” Constructions
Chair: Andreas Joswig |
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Nubian PanelChair: Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei | Western NiloticChair: Tatiana Reid | Koman Chair: Justin Goldberg | |
15:00-15:30 | Jade ComfortUniversity of Leiden
Unycu Phonology |
Sawsan Abdel Aziz Mohammed NashidUniversity of Khartoum
Loan words in the Nuer language |
Manuel A. OteroUniversity of Oregon
On some (stable) Koman features in a Nilo-Saharan perspective |
15:30-16:00 | Angelika Jakobi & Ali IbrahimUniversity of Cologne
The vowel system of Tagle |
Siri GjersoeLeipzig University, Germany
Tonal marking of case in Nuer |
Don KillianUniversity of Helsinki
Uduk gender from a Koman perspective |
16:00-16:30 | TEA BREAK | ||
Nubian PanelChair: El-Shafie El-Guzuuli | Western NiloticChair: Mathew Baerman | Eastern NiloticChair: Anne-Christie Hellenthal | |
16:30-17:00 | Ishag Abdelrahman HassanUniversity of Khartoum
Consonants and vowels in the Midob language |
Bert RemijsenUniversity of Edinburgh
Shilluk noun morphology and noun phrase morphosyntax |
Chelimo K. AndrewMoi University, Kenya
Gender marked responses in ENDO-Marakwet |
17:00-17:30 | Angelika Jakobi & Gumma Ibrahim & Ahmed HamdanUniversity of Cologne
Long vowels – A comparative study of some Kordofan Nubian languages |
Abebayehu MeleseAddis Ababa University
The Acoustics of Anuak Stops |
Jonathan MoodieUniversity of Melborne
Aspect in Lopit – Aspect marking is aligned with the structure of the verb root |
18:00-9:00 | Reception at Desalegn Hotel 2 |
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