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

Plenary talks

 

Datum

Venue

Titel

07.-08.03. 2013

International Symposium 'Paradigm change in historical reconstruction: the Transeurasian languages and beyond’, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

Fusional morphology in Niger Congo and Bantu: addressing a historical-comparative problem

11.-12.12 2012

KNAW Conference 'Patterns of Diversification and Contact: A Global Approach', Amsterdam

Latitudinal spread effects in Africa and beyond (with Harald Hammarström)

06.-08.06. 2012

Workshop 'Khoisan kinship and society revisited' at the CAS 50th Anniversary Conference Edinburgh

"Khoisan" linguistics: changing perspectives between unity and diversity

11.-13.11. 2010

International Conference 'Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification', Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts Brussels

Re-lexicalization within grammatical constructions

24.-26.02. 2010

32. Annual Meeting of the DGfS, Workshop: "'von endlichen Mitteln einen unendlichen Gebrauch machen' - Recursion as a Central Issue in Recent Linguistics", HU Berlin

The syntax of reported discourse from a typological perspective: embedding or not?

11. 2009

International APiCS conference, MPI-EVA Leipzig

Areal typology in Africa and its significance for the history of creoles

09.-12.09. 2009

International Workshop 'Quotative markers: origin and use', 42nd Annual Meeting of the SLE, Universidade de Lisboa

Direct reported discourse as a sub-domain of mimesis and the history of quotative markers

17.-18.11. 2008

International Symposium 'Globality, Locality and Contact - Languages and Culture', Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki

Linguistic macro-areas in Africa: Geography and population dynamics

14.-15.11. 2008

International Workshop 'Predicate Focus, Verum Focus, Verb Focus: Similarities and Differences', Universität Potsdam

The relation between predicate operator focus and theticity: How preverbal clause operators in Bantu betray functional affinity

02.-05.10. 2008

International conference 'Language Typology and Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics' (Universität Leipzig, MPI-EVA), MPI-EVA Leipzig

How typology can inform philology: quotative jn in Earlier Egyptian

03.-05.07. 2008

'ACBPLE Annual Conference', Universidade Nova Lisboa

Quotative-complementizers in Atlantic creoles: universal grammaticalization and African substrates

26.03.-04.04. 2008

'International Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity' (Universität Leipzig, MPI-EVA Leipzig, MPI-HCBS Leipzig), Universität Leipzig

African macro-areas and geography

04.-06.10. 2007

International Conference on 'Bantu languages: analysis, description and theory', University of Gothenburg

Bantu in its macro-areal context of Africa and implications for the early typology of Bantu and Niger-Congo

20.-28.09. 2007

7th International Conference of the 'Association of Linguistic Typology' (ALT VII), Workshop on the typology of African Languages, CNRS Paris

Areal typology in Africa

20.-28.03. 2006

'International Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity' (Universität Leipzig, MPI-EVA Leipzig, MPI-HCBS Leipzig), Universität Leipzig

Clicks, genetics, and 'proto-world' from a linguistic perspective

06.-08.07. 2005

Combined Annual Conference of the 'Linguistic Society of Southern Africa (LSSA)' and the 'Southern African Applied Linguistics Association (SAALA)', University of Pretoria

A forgotten heritage? - southern African Khoisan and its importance for modern linguistic research

04.-07.07. 2005

13th International Conference of the 'African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA)', University of Johannesburg

A forgotten heritage? - southern African Khoisan and its importance for modern linguistic research