NILO-SAHARAN LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM, COLOGNE 2013

funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

NUBIAN PANEL FOCUS ON THE NUBIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Programme as of May 17, 2013

The abstracts are sorted by the bold names Orientation map below
Wednesday, 22.05.2013 9:00 10:00 REGISTRATION in front of room D (Hrsaalgebude) WELCOME (room D) PLENARY TALK (room D) Norbert Cyffer: Genealogy and areality. Their impact on the evolution of languages and linguistic groups OLD NUBIAN room D 11:00-11:30 Vincent van Gerven Oei: Notes toward a revised grammar of Old Nubian Petra Weschenfelder & Kerstin Weber: Reflections on Old Nubian grammar NILOTIC room F Osamu Hieda: Complementation and evidentiality in Kumam SAHARAN room G Sergio Baldi & Alessandro Suzzi-Valli: Kanuri loans in some Bole-Tangale languages Georg Ziegelmeyer: Kanuri and its neighbours typological convergence in the Lake Chad region

10:00-10:05 10:05 10:50

11:30-12:00

Torben Andersen: An applicative voice in Kurmuk

12:00-13:30 13:30-14:00 Grzegorz Ochaa: Languages of Christian Nubia

LUNCH BREAK Matthew Baermann: The diachronic puzzle of Nuer case inflection Dmitry Bondarev & Doris Lhr: Morphosyntactic variation in Old Kanembu and modern Kanuri and Kanembu dialects Eva Rothmaler: Future in Kanuri

14:00-14:30

Joost Hagen: Church names in the Old Nubian documents Giovanni Ruffini: Idiomatic language in Old Nubian correspondance

Prisca Jerono: Case marking in Tugen

14:30-15:00

Helga Schrder: S/A pivot in Toposa clause-chaining

Baba Kura Alkali Gazali: Functions of the postpositions ro and lan in Kanuri

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COFFEE BREAK PLENARY TALK (room D) Shettima Umaru Bulakarima & Abba Kura Shettima: Dynamics of Language Contact in the Lake Chad Basin: Continuity and Change in Kanembu and Kanuri Adam aytar: Survey of Old Nubian texts from Jebel Adda Angelika Mietzner: The philosphy of walking: "verbs of walking" in Cherang'any (Kalenjin) Kazuhiro Kawachi: The Kupsapiny distinction between exclusive and shared possession and the inalienability distinction Suleiman Norein: Sociolinguistic dislocation in Darfur since 2003

16:30 17:00

17:00-17:30

Alexandros Tsakos: The Liber Institutionis Michaelis

Maha Abdul Aldawi: A morpho-syntactic contrastive analysis of the two dialects of Zaghawa in Sudan: Kube and Wegi

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DINNER PARTY Hellers Brauhaus, Roonstrae 33

Thursday, 23.05.2013 9:00-9:45 PLENARY TALK (room 01, Seminargebude) Leoma Gilley: Expectations: Realization and disillusionment NUBIAN room 01 10:00-10:30 Birgit Hellwig & Gertrud Schneider-Blum: In a state of flux: Tabaq NILOTIC room 21 Diane Lesley-Neuman: Eastern Nilotic Phonology and Optimality Theory: What Can the Optimal System Look Like? COFFEE BREAK M. Jalal Hashim: The problem of connective consonant in Nobin Stefan Bruckhaus: Locational nouns in Datooga Christine Waag & Martin Phodunze: The pronominal elements of Baka, a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan Pascal Boyeldieu: Case alignment(s) in Sinyar CENTRAL SUDANIC room 22 Connie Kutsch-Lojenga: Mvuba - An endangered language worth exploring

10:30-11:00 11:00-11:30

11:30-12:00

Marcus Jaeger: Adversative grammatical elements in Dongolawi and Kenzi proverbs

Anne Storch: Linguistic Etiquette in a Frontier Situation: a Case Study from Chopi LUNCH BREAK

12:00-13:30 13:30-14:15

PLENARY TALK (room 01) Doris Payne: Why cant we agree on The Maa verb? Perspectives on the Nilotic verb composition

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Jade Comfort: Verbal plurality in Uncunwee Angelika Jakobi & ElShafie El-Guzuuli: Semantic change and heterosemy of Dongolawi ed

Dan Finer: Low Topic and Prominence Relations in Turkana Andrew Kiprop Chelimo: Tone and tongue root as mobilitive morphemes in Endo-Marakwet

Peggy Jacob: Doubled verbs. Focus marking in SaraBagirmi Gregory Anderson: S/TAM/Pmorphs (portmanteau subject/TAM/polarity morphs) in Central Sudanic languages

15:00-15:30

15:30-16:00 16:00-16:30 Suzan Alamin: Noun phrase constructions in Nubian languages: A comparative study

COFFEE BREAK Fernando O. de Carvalho: Problems in Shilluk morphophonology: prospects of a wordbased solution Bert Remijsen: Three levels of vowel length in Shilluk KULIAK room 22 Sam Beer: New research in Nyangi

16:30-17:00

Abdelrahim Mughaddam: Loanwords in Nubia: A sociolinguistic perspective

Terril Schrock: Case as a meta-categorial heuristic in Ik grammaticography

from 18:00

KLN/NIL DIE ABENTEUERLICHE ORIENT-EXPEDITION DES KLNERS FRANZ CHRISTIAN GAU 1818-1820 The egyptologist Heinz Felber offers a guided tour through the exhibition in the Municipal Museum (Klnisches Stadtmuseum, Zeughausstrae 1)

Friday, 24.05.2013 9:00 9:45 PLENARY TALK (room 01) Moges Yigezu: Is Aroid Nilo-Saharan or Afro-Asiatic (Omotic)? Evidences from phonological and morphological reconstructions NUBIAN room 01 10:00-10:30 Elshafie Elgazooli Saeed: the verb e [] in Andaandi Thomas Kuku Alaki & Russell Norton: Kadaru phonology NILOTIC room 21 Jane Oduor: A study of the relationship between syllable weight and stress in Dholuo Peter Avery & Abel Ogola: Variability and regularization in the acquisition of the Dholuo plural COFFEE BREAK KOMAN & GUMUZ room 22 Richard Griscom: The multifunctional KI preposition in Koman and Western Nilotic Manuel A. Otero: Dual number in Komo verbs

10:30-11:00

11:00-11:30

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NYIMANG room 01 Russell Norton: The Ama dual suffix: An internal reconstruction

SURMIC room 21 Andreas Joswig: Syntactic sensitivity and preferred

clause structure in Majang

Colleen Ahland: Verbal Classifier, Reflexive, and Beyond: A Synchronic and Diachronic Exploration of the Morpheme /tsa/ body in Gumuz Don Killian: Body part verbal compounding in Uduk

12:00-12:30

Ines Fiedler: The structure of yes/no questions in Ama

Adelino Amargira: Number and case inflection in Tennet LUNCH BREAK

12:30-13:30 13:30-14:00 SONGHAY room 01 Petr Zima: Dendi and its position within synchronic and diachronic studies of Songhay 14:00-14:30 Lameen Souag: Songhay lexica and the transSaharan trade

Vclav Blaek: Surmic numerals

Tesfaye Negash: The Komo people and their language: An introduction and a study of tone

LANGUAGE POLICY room 21 Alemayehu Getachew: Language planning and development of the Ethiopian Nilo-Saharan languages during the past 20 years KUNAMA room 21 John Ashkaba: Kunama tones as object markers

Tesfaye Negash: Komo/film screening

14:30-15:00

BERTA room 22 Susanne Neudorf: The use of body part lexemes in Berta Nate Bremer: Lexical and grammatical shift in Berta: A comparative analysis of several speech varieties

15:00-15:30

COFFEE

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CONCLUSION CEREMONY room 01

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