International Workshop on Bantu Languages: Studies in East African Bantu and Microvariation
Saturday 1 March 2014, SOAS, Russell Square Main Building, Room 116
10:00 a.m.-6 p.m.
10.20 Welcome
10.30-11.10 Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
The conjoint-disjoint distinction in Matengo
11.10-11.50 Yuko Abe (ILCAA Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Persistive in Bende
11.50-12.30 Yukiko Morimoto (Humboldt University Berlin)
Focus in Kikuyu
12.30-2 Lunch
2-2.40 Josephat Rugemalira (University of Dar es Salaam)
Bantu structure and linguistic explanation
2.40-3.20 Atikonda Mtenje (Mzuzu University, Malawi and Centre for African Language Diversity, University of Cape Town)
Noun class system micro-variation: A case study of Cisukwa, Cindali and Cilambya
3.20-4 Jenneke van der Wal and Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)
From macroparameters to nanoparameters: a comparative Bantu study
4-4.20 Tea Break
4.20-5 Daisuke Shinagawa (Kagawa University)
Vowel coalescence and morphological micro-variations in Kilimanjaro Bantu
5-5.40 Henry Muzale (University of Dar es Salaam)
TBC
5.40 Close
This event is free. All welcome!
Further information and registration: Hannah Gibson hg6@soas.ac.uk or Lutz Marten lm5@soas.ac.uk
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