Schedule
ACAL2011 Schedule
Friday, June 10th
Saturday, June 11th
Sunday, June 12th
Poster Sessions (Saturday, June 11th)
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Friday, June 10th |
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| 7:30-4:30 | Registration Edgar Allen Poe Room (Stamp Student Union, 2nd Floor) |
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| 8:30- 9:00 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks Banneker Room |
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Phonology - Tonology Chair: Michael Marlo Banneker Room |
Acquisition Chair: Kate Harrigan Pyon Su Room |
Syntax |
Semantics-TAM Chair: Ron Schaefer Brent B Room |
Discourse Chair: Sarah Marjie Marshall Room |
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| 9:00- 9:30 |
Metatony in Abo (Bankon), A42 Larry M. Hyman (University of California, Berkeley) & Florian Lionnet (University of California, Berkeley) |
Ewe children's understanding of the complements of want, say and think (a pilot study) Naho Orita (University of Maryland) |
Word order patterns in Defaka William Bennett (Rutgers University) |
Epistemic modality in Masalit Timothy Leffel (New York University) |
A Socio-semantic exploration of Shonalised English Patricia Mabugu (University of Zimbabwe) |
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| 9:30- 10:00 |
The phonetics of KiVunjo Chaga superhigh tone revisited Brian McHugh (Temple University) |
Signed language acquisition and deaf education: The state of affairs in Africa Philemon Okinyi Akach (University of Free State- South Africa) |
Non-delimiting internal arguments in Marka Dustin Chacón (University of Maryland) |
The expression of epistemic modality in Ewe Nada Gbegble (University of Antwerp) |
Mafumbo: Considering the functions of metaphorical speech in Swahili (con)texts Clarissa Vierke (University of Bayreuth) |
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| 10:00- 10:30 |
Mungbam vowels in their typological context Jesse Lovegren (University at Buffalo) |
Socio-cultural factors in Ibibio child language Ekaete Evangel Akpan (University of Port Harcout |
Triadic constructions in Bantu Bebwa Isingoma (University of Agder) |
Completion and dissociation in Totela's tense and aspect system Thera Marie Crane (University of California, Berkeley) |
Matthew effects for Sheng Philip W. Rudd (Pittsburg State University) |
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| 10:30- 11:00 |
BREAK Banneker Room |
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Morning Plenary: Banneker Room |
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| 11:00- 12:00 |
Plenary Session: Intertextuality in African (Ghanaian) political text and talk Professor Samuel Obeng Indiana University |
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| 12:00- 1:30 |
Lunch Break | |||||
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Afternoon Sessions |
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Language Contact Chair: John V. Singler Banneker Room |
Semantics - Methods and Description Chair: Nada Gbegble Pyon Su Room |
Syntax-Serial Verb Constructions Chair: Jason Kandybowicz Brent A Room |
Phonology - Morphological Tone Chair: Laura McPherson Brent B Room |
Morphology - Reduplication Chair: Nikki Adams Marshall Room |
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| 1:30- 2:00 |
When is a dying language orphaned and/or dead? Degrammatization on the West African littoral Tucker Childs (Portland State University) |
The role of lexical elicitation in language documentation (with a focus on ǂHoan) Bonny Sands (Northern Arizona University) |
On the structure and derivation of Twi multi-verb constructions: Serialization despite multiple clauses Cansada Martin (Haverford College) |
Consonant-tone interaction in Saxwe Virginia Beavon-Ham (SIL International) |
Verbal reduplication in Ndebele: Historical evidence for morphological doubling Galen Sibanda (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| 2:00- 2:30 |
On the role of functional categories in code-switched grammars: The case of Igbo-English code-switching Greg Obiamalu Nnamdi (Azikiwe University, Awka) |
A comparative study of topological relation markers in two Gur languages: Chakali and Gurene Jonathan Allen Brindle (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) & Samuel Awinkene Atintono (University of Manchester) |
TP serialization in Malagasy Laura Kalin (University of California, Los Angeles) & Edward Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles) |
Tonal opacity and paradigm structure in the Kinande verb system Patrick Jones (MIT) |
Reduplication as a detransitivizing strategy in Akan: A preliminary observation Clement Kwamina Insaidoo Appah (Lancaster University) |
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| 2:30- 3:00 |
Language change in Tigrinya: A historical study based on early Tigrinya texts Solomon Niguse Kebede (Mekelle University) |
The Missing component in Ibibio linguistic time: Putting the form-function interface in context Willie U. Willie (University of Georgia) & Mfon Udoinyang (Eastern Michigan University) |
Serial verb constructions in Esan Nicholas Rolle (University of Toronto) |
Polar Tone and other Morphological tone in Laarim, a Surmic language of Sudan Tim Stirtz (University of Leiden / SIL International) |
Adjectival and verbal reduplication in Zulu Toni Cook (University of Pennsylvania) |
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| 3:00- 3:30 |
BREAK Banneker Room |
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Bantu Morphosyntax (Kimenyi dedication) Chair: Juvenal Ndayiragije Banneker Room |
Southern African Linguistics Chair: Galen Sibanda Pyon Su Room |
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Phonology - Prosodic Structure Chair: Lee Bickmore Brent B Room |
Corpus & Computational Linguistics Chair: Graziano Savà Marshall Room |
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| 3:30- 4:00 |
A polylectal grammar of Lingala and its theoretical implications Eyamba G. Bokamba (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign) |
Politics of location and language preference: Complex choices facing L1 African language students in an English medium university in South Africa Gaontebale Nodoba (University of Cape Town) |
Structural correlates of tone and meaning in Tommo So compounds Laura McPherson (University of California, Los Angeles) |
Variation in relative constructions in Dagbani Tristan Michael Purvis (University of Maryland) |
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| 4:00- 4:30 |
The subjunctive in Bantu and the left periphery Deo Ngonyani (Michigan State University) |
Resolving hiatus in Nambya: An optimality theoretic account Maxwell Kadenge (University of the Witwatersrand) (Addis Ababa University) |
Segmental and tonal feet in Bamana (Bambara): Evidence for uniform structure Christopher R. Green (University of Maryland) |
HaG - a computational grammar of Hausa Berthold Crysmann (University of Bonn) |
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| 4:30- 4:45 |
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Afternoon Plenary: Banneker Room |
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| 4:45- 5:45 |
Plenary Session: Aspects of Llogoori tone Professor David Odden Ohio State University |
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| 5:45- 7:30 |
Reception Atrium - Stamp Student Union, 1st floor Hosted by the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language |
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| 6:45 | Dinner informal trips to nearby African restaurants (East African, West African, Ethiopian) |
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Saturday, June 11th |
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| 7:30-10:30 | Registration Edgar Allen Poe Room (Stamp Student Union, 2nd Floor) |
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| 8:00- 9:00 |
ACAL Business Meeting Banneker Room |
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Morning Plenary: Banneker Room |
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| 9:00- 10:00 |
Plenary Session: Left/right asymmetries and the design of grammar Professor Vicki Carstens University of Missouri |
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| 10:00- 10:30 |
BREAK Banneker Room |
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Morning Sessions |
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| Bantu Augment (Kimenyi dedication) Chair: Laura Downing Banneker Room |
Phonology/Syntax - Question Formation Chair: Claire Halpert Pyon Su Room |
Chadic Linguistics Chair: Berthold Crysmann Brent A Room |
Phonology Chair: Jonathan Anderson Brent B Room |
Sociolinguistics - Written Texts Chair: Tristan Purvis Marshall Room |
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| 10:30- 11:00 |
On the phonological variation of Bantu augment Parth Bhatt (University of Toronto), Juvenal Ndayiragije (University of Toronto) & Emmanuel Nikiema (University of Toronto) |
Krachi Wh-in-situ and the grammar of 'why' Jason Kandybowicz (Swarthmore College) & Harold Torrence (University of Kansas) |
Bole pluractionality Kaeli Ward (University of California, Los Angeles) |
[ATR] harmony in an eleven vowel language: The case of Anii Deborah Morton (The Ohio State University) |
"Say 8 so I can know wat 2 do": Text-messaging conventions in Vernacular Liberian English John Victor Singler (New York University) |
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| 11:00- 11:30 |
The augment in Haya Kristina Riedel (ZAS, Berlin) |
Polar question intonation in Kɔnni Michael Cahill (SIL International) |
Negation and aspectual asymmetries in Sakun (Sukur) Michael Thomas (University of Colorado at Boulder) |
Siamou tone melodies Carmela Toews (University of British Columbia) |
A study of English items in Kiswahili-based texts Sarah Marjie (University of Ghana, Legon) |
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| 11:30- 12:00 |
The pragmatics of the Ekegusii augment Jonathan Choti (Michigan State University) |
Final lengthening as question marker in Obang: Grassfields Bantu Asohsi Melvice (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) |
Unmixed categories and shared morphemes: Factors determining finite predicative distribution of gerunds in Glavda Jonathan Owens (University of Bayreuth) |
Pre-specified tones in Lamnso' reduplication Safieh Moghaddam (University of Toronto) |
Sociocultural Dimensions of Users' orthographic practices in Nigerian Pidgin Christine I. Ofulue (National Open University of Nigeria) |
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| 12:00- 1:30 |
Lunch Break | |||||
| 1:00 |
Poster Session 1 begins at 1:00 |
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Afternoon Sessions |
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Sociolinguistics Chair: Clarissa Vierke Banneker Room |
Syntax-Possession Chair: Solomon Niguse Pyon Su Room |
Topic and Focus Chair: Safieh Moghaddam Brent A Room |
Phonology Chair: Chris Green Brent B Room |
Poster Session 1 1:00 - 2:30 Jimenez Room |
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| 1:30- 2:00 |
Discourse conventions in African languages with particular reference to Bantu Gabriele Sommer (University of Bayreuth) |
Expressing alienable possession in Lete Mercy Akrofi Ansah (University of Ghana, Legon) |
Low subjects in Zulu and the prosody-syntax interface Claire Halpert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
Lala and Swaka and Biisa, Oh my!: Tone patterns in Guthrie's Zone M.50 Lee Bickmore (University at Albany) |
Poster Session 1 (CLICK HERE TO SEE LIST OF POSTERS) | |
| 2:00- 2:30 |
Constructing multilayered language identities through comedy and talk show Leonard Muaka (Winston Salem State University) |
Syntactic distinctions of (in)alienable possession in Tigrinya Keffyalew Gebregziabher (University of Calgary) |
On the (non-)congruence of focus and prominenc in Tumbuka Laura J. Downing (ZAS, Berlin) |
Voiceless dissimilation in Moro Sharon Rose (University of California, San Diego) |
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| 2:30- 3:00 |
BREAK Banneker Room |
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| 2:30- 3:45 |
Poster Session 2 begins at 2:30 |
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Semantics - Spatial Chair: Esther Afreh Banneker Room |
Sociolinguistics Chair: Mehari Zemelak Worku Pyon Su Room |
Noun Morphology / Morphophonology - Chair: Michelle Johnson Brent A Room |
Loanword Phonology / Phonotactics Chair: Bonny Sands Brent B Room |
Poster Session 2 2:30-4:00 Jimenez Room |
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| 3:00- 3:30 |
Directionals in lexical and syntactic context Doris Payne (University of Oregon, & SIL International) |
Gender-biased ideology of Tigrinya speakers as reflected in the grammar of the language |
Tonal melodies in Susu nominal constructions Samuel Gyasi Obeng (Indiana University), Christopher R. Green (University of Maryland) & Jon Anderson (Indiana University) |
Adaptation mismatches in Yoruba English loans Olanike Orie (Tulane University) |
Poster Session 2 (CLICK HERE TO SEE LIST OF POSTERS) | |
| 3:30- 4:00 |
Aspectual properties of positional verbs in Gurenɛ Samuel Atintono (University of Manchester) |
The use of Lingála in the teaching of chemistry in DR Congo: A socioterminological approach |
Noun class manipulation in Bena Michelle Morrison (Rice University) |
Comparing the pronunciation of English loanwords as represented in the written and spoken mediums Sophia Adjaye (California State University, Bakersfield) |
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| 4:00- 4:15 |
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Afternoon Plenary: Banneker Room |
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| 4:15- 5:15 |
Plenary Session: Lexical and functional categories in Gbe and beyond Professor Enoch O. Aboh University of Amsterdam |
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| 5:15 | Break/transportation to Holiday Inn | |||||
| 6:00-10:00 | Banquet Holiday Inn, College Park |
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Sunday, June 12th |
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Morning Sessions |
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| Bantu Phonology - Downstep (Kimenyi dedication) Chair: Larry Hyman Banneker Room |
Classification / Morphology Chair: Martha Michieka Pyon Su Room |
Sociolinguistics |
Syntax-Relatives (Kimenyi dedication) Chair: Emmanuel Nikiema Brent B Room |
Morphology - Verbal Chair: Sharon Rose Marshall Room |
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| 9:00- 9:30 |
Downstep and contour formation in Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu language Nick Danis, Jonathan Barnes, Catherine O'Conner (Boston University) |
Bangime, a secret language revealed Abbie Hantgan (Indiana University) |
Structural consequences arising from contact in language shift situations: The case of Luo and Suba languages of Kenya John Obiero Ogone (Maseno University) |
Merging Bantu relatives Juvenal Ndayiragije (University of Toronto) |
Tima verb-word structure Suzan Alamin (University of Khartoum) |
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Tone change and downstep in Medumba, a Grassfields Language Kathryn Franich Jonathan Barnes, Catherine O'Conner (Boston University) |
The ethnolinguistic classification of Seereer in question Papa Oumar Fall (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) |
Code switching: An interface between languages in contact in Maiduguri, Nigeria Jidda Hassan Juma'a (University of Maiduguri) |
The Bantu relative marker (RM) is an indefinite pronoun Kasangati K. W. Kinyalolo (Kirkwood Community College) |
Luganda verb morphology: A new analysis of the suffixes [YE] and [-A] and their distribution across the indicative, subjunctive and imperative mood Franca Ferrari-Bridgers (Nyack College) |
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Ternary spreading and the OCP in Copperbelt Bemba Lee Bickmore (University at Albany) & Nancy Kula (University of Essex) |
Lexical Nominalization in Ibibio Ogbonna Anyanwu (University of Uyo) |
Language politics among the political parties of Ethiopia Mehari Zemelak Worku |
Instrument inversion in Zulu Jochen Zeller (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) |
A historical approach to Tano verbal morphology Mary Paster (Pomona College) |
| 10:30- 11:00 |
BREAK Courtland Room |
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Bantu Phonology - Tone (Kimenyi dedication) Chair: David Odden Banneker Room |
Akan Morphophonology / Morphosyntax Chair: Clement K. I. Appah Pyon Su Room |
Semantics / Syntax Chair: Samuel A. Atintono Brent A Room |
Syntax / Morphology Chair: Harold Torrence Brent B Room |
Sociolinguistics Chair: Leonard Muaka Marshall Room |
| 11:00- 11:30 |
The tonology of DPs and prosodic phrasing in Xitsonga Seunghun J. Lee (Central Connecticut State University) & Morris T. Babane (University of Venda) |
Relevance, scope, and alternation in affixation in –ni and –foɔ personal nouns in Akan (Twi) Seth Ofori (University of Wisconsin) |
Separation events and their component verbs in Emai Ron Schaefer (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) & Francis Egbokhare (University of Ibadan) |
Adpositions or case markers? An Amharic case study Mark Baker (Rutgers University) & Kramer (Georgetown University) |
Invisible languages: 'Translating' African multilingualness on the silver screen—A semiotic analysis Anjali Pandey (Salisbury University) |
| 11:30- 12:00 |
Parameters of tonal variation in Bantu verbs: Implications for fieldwork methodology Michael Marlo (University of Missouri) |
On the prosodic expression of pragmatic prominence: The case of tonal lowering in Akan Frank Kügler (University of Potsdam) & Susanne Genzel (University of Potsdam) |
Light verb constructions in Xamtanga Chloé Darmon (Lumière University Lyon 2) |
Predication in the clause and noun phrase of Lusoga Michelle Johnson (The City University of New York) |
A Pragmatic analysis of vague language use in Ekegusii conversational interactions Hellen Ondari (University of Eastern Africa, Baraton) |
| 12:00- 12:30 |
Conjoint / disjoint high tone alternations in Basaa Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso (ZAS, Berlin) |
Verb-Internal Compound formation in Akan Jonathan Anderson (Indiana University) |
Agents in Igbo resultatives Alexander Williams (University of Maryland) |
The syntax of action nominalization in Wolof Khady Tamba (University of Kansas) & Omar Ka (University of Maryland- Baltimore) |
How the language of shop signs reflects the Kenyan national language policy Martha Michieka (East Tennessee State University) |