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

African Linguistics Colloquium - Winter Semester 2024/25

Join us at the African Linguistics Colloquium for weekly talks on African linguistics, held Tuesdays from 16:15 to 17:45.


We are pleased to announce the schedule for this semester's African Linguistics Colloquium at Humboldt University. Talks will take place weekly on Tuesdays from 16:15 to 17:45 in room 410 of the IAAW (Invalidenstr. 118).

 

External participants can request a Zoom link from Jakob Lesage. Students attending the colloquium as part of their studies are expected to participate in person.

 

Guests are warmly invited to join!

 

Schedule:

22.10. Andrej Shluinsky (HU Berlin, DFG project): “Wordhood in Ghana-Togo Mountain languages, with a focus on Akebu and Adele”

29.10. Thomas Stolz (Universität Bremen): “Grammatical gender hardly ever emerges in language-contact situations”

05.11. Ines Fiedler (HU Berlin): “Is there a unique category of transnumeral nouns in Foodo (Guang)?”

12.11. Jakob Lesage (HU Berlin): “Four types of plural markers in Northern sub-Saharan Africa”

19.11. Henok Wondimu (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “Cleft-like’ constructions in Gamo”

26.11. Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (University of Jerusalem): “Interaction and competition between borrowed and native discourse particles in Khoekhoe (Khoe-Kwadi)”

03.12. Tatiana Korol (HU Berlin, Ph.D.-Project): “An overview of AI tools for linguists: special focus on Automatic Speech Recognition”

10.12. Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (Universität Augsburg): “On the (contact-induced) restructuring continuum in the Romania Bantu”

17.12. Olga Olina (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “A comparative analysis of the Leipzig-Jakarta wordlist for Jirim, Chamba Daka and Kam languages”

07.01. Luka Anlauff (HU Berlin, Master project): “The historical reconstruction of Ndogoic (Ubangi)”

14.01. Markus Riedel (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “Introducing Taa into primary education in Botswana”

21.01. Adrian Krause (HU Berlin, Master project): “Multi Verb Constructions in Naija (Nigerian Pidgin)“

28.01. Benedikt Winkhart (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “The description of Limassa”

04.02. Jan Junglas (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “Number marking in the Kuliak language group”

11.02. Ines Fiedler (HU Berlin): tba

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Tom Güldemann and Jakob Lesage