African Linguistics Colloquium Winter Semester 2025/2026
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN
FACULTY OF CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES
Seminar for African Studies
• Invalidenstraße 118 • D-10155 Berlin
African Linguistics Colloquium Winter Semester 2025-2026
- Semester Programme -
21.10. Markus Riedel (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “Introducing mother-tongue education in the Taa language complex in Botswana – comparative cases of Australia and New Zealand”
28.10. Kanji Kato (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics): “The orthography project and dictionary compilation for the Gǀui language (Khoe-Kwadi, Botswana)”
18.11. Ifeoma A. Adiboshi (University of Ibadan/HU Berlin): “Tones and aspects of nounphrases in Chi-Fungwa (Kainji): a descriptive approach”
25.11. Ifeoma A. Adiboshi (University of Ibadan/HU Berlin): “Documenting the pronominal tonal grammar and diet-based greetings of the Anioma dialect of Igbo”
2.12. Tatiana Korol (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “Preliminary description of verbs in Ngen (Mande)”
9.12. Tom Güldemann (HU Berlin): “Revising the semantic assignment typology of gender in Africa and beyond”
16.12. Henok Wondimu (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “tba”
06.01. Adrian Krause (HU Berlin, Master project): “tba”
13.01. Kristin Kuschnerik-Bischoff (HU Berlin, Master project): “Nominalklassenabweichung im Setswana”
20.01. Rebecca A. Paterson (University of Princeton) or Nadja Michel (HU Berlin, Master project): “tba”
27.01. Thomas Stolz and Nataliya Levkovych (Universität Kiel): “Arabic ḥatta ‘until’ and its journey around the globe”
03.02. Jan Junglas (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “The many faces of tripartite number marking in the Nuba Mountains”
10.02. Lee Pratchett (HU Berlin): “Introducing Central Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe): the missing link to the Gǀui-Gǁana-Tshwa continuum?”
Coordination: Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann
Co-organisation: Jakob Lesage, Jandrea Grobbelaar, Nadja Michl & Christfried Naumann
The colloquium takes place every Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. in person at the Institute for Asian and African Studies (IAAW), Invalidenstraße 118, Berlin, Room 410.
In justified exceptional cases, digital transmission is intended. If necessary, please request the Zoom connection from Jakob Lesage (jakob.lesage@hu-berlin.de).
All interested parties are cordially invited!