Unpublished Presentations
Güldemann, Tom. 2020. Time marking beyond tense and aspect - a Bantu view. Paper presented at the International Workshop "Beyond Time 2". Palace of the Academies (KVAB), Brussels, 6-7 February 2020. (PDF)
Elstermann, Julius-Maximilian, Ines Fiedler and Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward reconstructing noun classification in Longuda. Paper presented at the Adamawa Conference, University of Mainz, 9-11 September 2019. (PDF)
Fiedler, Ines and Tom Güldemann. 2019. The diachrony of nominal classification in Guang. Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig University, 21-24 August 2019. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2019. The historical-comparative status of East Sudanic. Paper presented at the 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, 30 May - 1 June 2019. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Harald Hammarström. 2019. Global profile of language families supports geographical-axis hypothesis. Paper presented at the International Workshop "Spatial patterns of language evolution", University of Zurich, 24 January 2019. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Lee J. Pratchett. 2018. ReKOMmenting on ǂKx'aoǁ'ae. Paper presented at the International Workshop ISSLaC3 "Discourse and information structure", Universität Münster, 7-8 December 2018. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Ines Fiedler. 2018. Niger-Congo "noun classes": problems and prospects. Paper presented at the International Workshop "Gender across Niger-Congo", Humboldt University Berlin, 29-30 November 2018. (PDF)
Good, Jeff and Tom Güldemann. 2018. Proto-Bantu verbal form. Paper presented at the International Conference "Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar", University of Ghent, 19-23 November 2018. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2018. Meeussen's (1967) "Advance verb construction". Paper presented at the International Conference "Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar", University of Ghent, 19-23 November 2018. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2018. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at the 9th World Congress of African Linguistics, Mohammed V University of Rabat, 25-28 August 2018. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Ines Fiedler. 2018. A new type of concurrent nominal classification in Niger-Congo? Paper presented at the 9th World Congress of African Linguistics, Mohammed V University of Rabat, 25-28 August 2018. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Jan Junglas. 2018. Toward gender (and number) in Krongo. Paper presented at the 23. Afrikanistentag, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, 25-26 May 2018. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2017. The internal and external syntax of quotative indexes and its implications for the nature of reported discourse. Paper presented at 12th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Australian National University Canberra, 12-15 December 2017. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2017. Toward a more systematic investigation of substrates: the case of Africa. Paper presented at the DLCE Workshop "Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history". Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History Jena, 11-12 July 2017. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2017. Linguistic macro-areas in Africa: when "boundaries" are areas themselves. Paper presented at the International Conference "Spatial boundaries and transitions in language and interaction: perspectives from linguistics and geography", Monte Verità, 23-28 April 2017. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Anne-Maria Fehn. 2016. Linguistic evidence for early interactions between Khoe-Kwadi herders and Bantu farmers in southern Africa. Paper presented at the Workshop "The language of the first farmers" at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Naples Federico II, 31 August - 3 September 2016. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2016. The wider Upper Niger region: just a Niger-Kordofanian extension or a hub of linguistic remnants? Paper presented at the Mini African Symposium, Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History Jena, 22 August 2016. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Samuele Maniscalco. 2015. A new approach to gender in Somali. Paper presented at the International Workshop "Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity", Stockholm University, 20-21 November 2015. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Harald Hammarström. 2015. What can the modern profile of linguistic geography and genealogy of foragers tell us about human prehistory? Paper presented at the 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Universität Wien, 7-11 September 2015. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Benedikt Winkhart. 2015. The *Baakaa puzzle: language shift where and when? Paper presented at the 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Universität Wien, 7-11 September 2015. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2015. Clause-second elements in languages of the Kalahari Basin with particular reference to Richtersveld Nama and Nǁng. Paper presented at the Workshop "Current Trends in Khoisan Linguistics" at the 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, Kyoto, 20-24 August 2015. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Tjerk Hagemeijer. 2015. How to become a Macro-Sudan belt language: the Gulf-of-Guinea creole (GGC) case. Paper presented at the Workshop "Areal phenomena in northern sub-Sahara Africa" at the 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, Kyoto University, 20-24 August 2015. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Christfried Naumann. 2015. Grammatical relations in the West ǃXoon dialect of Taa. Paper presented at the Conference "Diversity linguistics: retrospect and prospect", MPI-EVA Leipzig, 1-3 May 2015. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom, Ines Fiedler and Yukiko Morimoto. 2014. The verb in the preverbal domain across Bantu: infinitive: "fronting" and predicate-centered focus. Paper presented at the International Workshop "BantuSynPhonIS: Preverbal Domains", ZAS Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin, 14-15 November 2014. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Lee Pratchett. 2014. KoMmenting on ǂKx'aoǁ'ae. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics, Riezlern, 14-16 July 2014. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Anne-Maria Fehn. 2014. A Kwadi perspective on Khoe verb-juncture constructions. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics, Riezlern, July 14-16, 2014. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2014a. The Gulf-of-Guinea creoles as Macro-Sudan belt languages? Paper presented at the Workshop II "Origins and development of creole societies in the Gulf of Guinea", Instituto para a Investigação Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa, 4-5 September 2014. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2013. Morphological fusion in Niger Congo and Bantu: addressing a historical-comparative problem. Paper presented at the Conference "Paradigm change in historical reconstruction: the Transeurasian languages", Universität Mainz, 7-8 March 2013. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2013. Towards identifying Bantu Zone H features in Santome. Paper presented at the Workshop I "Origins and development of creole societies in the Gulf of Guinea", Instituto para a Investigação Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa, 22 March 2013. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2011. Perception verbs in Tuu. Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics, Riezlern, 11-13 July 2011. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2011. Towards early Bantu by reconstructing a fragment across Benue-Congo: 1st-person singular *mI. Paper presented at the Berlin Bantu Conference (B4ntu), Humboldt University and ZAS Berlin, 7-9 April 2011. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2010. Kwadi: from family-level to family-internal isolate. Paper presented at the International Workshop "Language Isolates in Africa", Lyon, 3-4 December 2010. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom, Ines Fiedler, Yukiko Morimoto and Kirill Prokhorov. 2010. Preposed verb doubling and predicate-centered focus. Paper presented at the International Conference of the SFB 632 "Information structure", University of Potsdam & Humboldt University of Berlin, 8-10 July 2010. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2010. The syntax of reported discourse from a typological perspective: embedding or not? Paper presented at the 32. Jahrestagung der DGfS, HU Berlin, 24-26 February 2010. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2009. Areal typology in Africa and its significance for the history of Afro-European creoles. Paper presented at the International APiCS Conference, MPI-EVA Leipzig, 5-8 November 2009. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom and Sven Siegmund. 2009. The marker ke in Nǀuu—declarative or not? Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), University of Cologne, 17–21 August 2009. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2008. The relation between predicate operator focus and theticity: how preverbal clause operators in Bantu betray functional affinity. Paper presented at the workshop "Predicate Focus, Verum Focus, Verb Focus: Similarities and Difference", Potsdam, 14-15 November 2008. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2008. "Khoisan" classification and early population history in southern Africa. Paper presented at the Conference "New Directions in Historical Linguistics", Lyon, 12-14 May 2008. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2007. "Back to normal?" - ditransitives in the Tuu family. Paper presented at the Conference "Ditransitive Constructions", MPI-EVA Leipzig, 23-25 November 2007. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2006. Noun categorization, agreement, and "janus-headed" nominals in Western !Xõo. Paper presented at the International Conference "Rara & Rarissima - Collecting and interpreting unusual characteristics of human languages", Leipzig, 29 March - 1 April 2006. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2005. The history of quotative predicatives: Can lexical properties arise out of a grammatical construction? Paper presented at the International Conference "New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3", Santiago de Compostela, 17-20 July 2005. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2005. The alleged grammaticalization of quotative~complementizers in Atlantic creoles: a West African substrate perspective. Paper presented at the International Conference "Creole language structure between substrates and superstrates", Leipzig, 3-5 June 2005. (PDF)
Güldemann, Tom. 2004. Linear order as a basic morphosyntactic factor in Non-Khoe Khoisan. Paper presented at the International Conference "Syntax of the World's Languages", Leipzig, 8 August 2004. (PDF)
Gensler, Orin D. und Güldemann, Tom. 2003. S-Aux-O-V-Other in Africa: typological and areal perspective. Paper presented at the Workshop "Distributed predicative syntax (S P O V X)" at the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics, Rutgers University, 21 June 2003. (PDF)