Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

4.-6.11.2021 Diedrich Westermann-Workshop

Diedrich Westermann, West-central African linguistic history between Macro-Sudan Belt and Niger-Congo

 

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Professorship for African Languages, the Department of African Studies organizes the workshop

"West-central African linguistic history between Macro-Sudan Belt and Niger-Congo: commemorating Diedrich Westermann’s legacy and the 100th anniversary of the Berlin professorship for African languages".

 

Organisation: Prof. Tom Güldemann

 

 

 

Thursday, 4th November

Friday, 5th November

Saturday, 6th November

Welcome and introduction

 

1 Johanna Nichols and Frederik Hartmann “The greater Sahara in the historical linguistic geography of Africa”

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1 Henning Schreiber “Areality and borrowability: pronouns in the Macro-Sudan Belt”

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1 Tom Güldemann and Ines Fiedler “The history of Gender-number suffixes across Niger-Congo”

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2 Dmitry Idiatov, Guillaume Segerer and Mark Van de Velde “Areal patterns of noun/verb ratios in sub-Saharan Africa”

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2 Tom Güldemann “From differential grammatical treatment to gender: animacy-based noun classification in Central Africa”

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2 Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer “(Upper) Benue-Volta - the morphological evidence”

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3 Florian Lionnet and Nicholas R. Rolle “Phonological profile changes in the Macro-Sudan Belt: the antagonism between ATR and interior vowels”

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3 Jean-Pierre Donzo “Les implosives dans les langues du nord-ouest de la RD Congo Héritage ou diffusion due au contact”

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3 Harald Hammarström and Guillaume Segerer “Computational experiments in Adamawa sub-classification”

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4 Valentin Vydrin “Tonal density index in Mande and beyond”

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4 André Motingea Mangulu “Epenthetic l on vocalic affixes in some Inner Congo Basin languages: common innovation or contact-induced feature?”

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4 Jack Merrill “Cognate noun class markers between Northern Atlantic groups and Benue-Congo”

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5 Florian Lionnet “Areal alignment and the diversification of
Bua languages (Chad)”

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5 Didier Demolin “The languages of the Ituri forest Pygmies: contact and historical perspectives”

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5 Final discussion

6 Jakob Lesage “Plural words in the Macro-Sudan Belt”

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6 Felix K. Ameka “Semantic convergence in the Lower Volta Basin (West Africa): a micro-area within the Macro-Sudanic Belt?”

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7 Karee Garvin, Katherine Russell and Hannah Sande “A typology of STAMP morphs in the Macro-Sudan Belt”

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7 Roland Kießling “Looking for areal features in the Grassfields / Bantoid region”

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8 Gregory Anderson “Towards a typology of auxiliary verb constructions, STAMP morphs and morphologically complex verb forms in Chadic languages”

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8 Jeff Good “Individual-level lexical variation in the Bantu homeland and its implications for the development of Benue-Congo”

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