24. Afrikanist*innentag, Programme (Day 1)

Thursday 1 July 2021

Navigating between talks: Presentations are split over two Zoom rooms that are open for the duration of the conference. All presentations on the left hand side of the programme are held in Room 1 and the presentations on the right hand side are in Room 2. Clicking on the name of the presenter will take you to the appropriate room. Alternatively, click on either ROOM 1 or ROOM 2 in the programme below.

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Last updated: 30 June 2021


   

ROOM 1

 

ROOM 2

Session 1
Literature, language in writing, verbal arts
Mabia/Gur  &  Ubangi
8:30
Abdourahmane Diallo
Das Französische in Westafrika: Einblicke in die Phonologie urbaner Arbeiter von Conakry
   
9:00
Hypolite Kembeu
„Ce successeur a lavé la veuve de son père“ : Das Französi­sche der afrikanischen Schriftsteller als Übersetzungsproblem
Katharina Hartmann &
Johannes Mursell
The landscape of focus particles in Dagbani
9:30
Patrick Nana Wonkyi, Cathrine Ekua Mensah & Charity Tsiwah
From Bula Matari to Black Hole of Calcutta: an ethnolinguistic analysis of taboo avoidance strategies in A. B. Crentsil’s Moses.
Georg Höhn & Alain Hien Prenominal a and nominal structure in three Mabia/Gur languages
10:00
Taofik Adesami
The language of epitaphs as memorials: the Nigerian and Lesotho examples
 Galla Althabégoïty
Ndə́~nə́ morpheme in Ngbugu language (Banda, Central African Republic)
Pause
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
 
Coffee break
Session 2
Diskursstrategien / Knowledge production
Nominal morphosyntax 1
11:00
Jan Knipping, Nico Nassenstein & Maren Rüsch
Zur Bedeutung von Tabu im Postkonflikt-Setting in Norduganda: Welche Einblicke bieten Konversation und Interaktion im Acholi?
Michael T. Angitso &
Roland Kießling
'Muscles of mussels' and 'hooks of bananas' - the (incipient) numeral classifier system of Ugare (Tivoid, Cameroon/Nigeria)
11:30
Hanan Karam
3arabizi – (Marokkanisches) Internet-Arabisch als transnationale Lösungsstrategie der Diaspora
Annemarie Verkerk & Francesca DiGarbo
Animacy and the evolution of gender agreement systems: A study of Northwestern Bantu
12:00
Samuel Beer
Disciplining the archive: African history, John M. Weatherby’s Soo data, and language archives
Ines Fiedler
Diminutives in Niger-Congo nominal classification
12:30
   
Admire Phiri
Grammaticalisation and Tjwao nominal morphosyntax
Pause
13:00-13:45
Lunch break
 
Lunch break
 
13:45
Aisha Othman
FID Afrika
   
Session 3
Multilingualism 1
Nominal morphosyntax 2
14:00
Miriam Weidl
Linguistic realities of rural, small-scale multilingualism and languaging practices: a case study in the Casamance, Senegal
Friederike Vigeland
About big trees and small frogs - Adjectives in Longuda
14:30
Miriam Weidl &
Samantha Goodchild
Problematizing generations: changing perceptions of multilingualism
Guitang Guillaume,
Pierre Davounoumbi & Ousmanou
Microvariation in nominal plural marking in the Northern Masa group (Gizey, Masana and Musey)
15:00
Michał B. Paradowski
Transitions and translanguaging in South African classrooms: Challenges and chances
Jan Junglas
The semantics and morphology of transnumeral nouns within Northeastern Africa’s tripartite number marking languages
Pause
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
 
Coffee break
 
Session 4
Multilingualism 2
Cushitic and Omotic
16:00
Klaus Beyer
Motorcycle taxi drivers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon: Marginal actors as source of linguistic innovation?
Bernhard Köhler
Searching for the shortest verb forms in Ometo languages
16:30
Gabriella Oliveira
Multilingualism and language ecology: aspects of the Portuguese in contact with the African languages spoken in Angola
Wakweya Gobena
Copula and Possession in Oromo: A Typological Perspective
Pause
17:00-17:15
Coffee break
 
Coffee break
 
Session 5
Welcome address & Keynote 1
   
17:15
AFRA Orga-Team
Grußwort / Welcome address
17:30-
18:45
Felix K. Ameka
Keynote 1:
The Semantics of Understanding:
the “meaning” of “meaning” in African languages