Colloquium on African languages and linguistics - Program (summer 2026)
Coordination: Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann
Place: Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften (IAAW), Invalidenstr. 118, room 410
Time: Tuesdays 4h15 - 5h45 p.m.
(Digital transmission via Zoom in exceptional cases can be requested from Jakob Lesage.)
Guests are very welcome!
Program in the summer semester 2026
14.04. (digital) Agata Oszmałek: "Morphological paradigms and the internal classification of the Berber languages: a comparative reconstruction of verbal and nominal morphology
21.04. Luigi Altieri: "An introduction to the Ath Mazret Amazigh dialect (Tamazret, Tunisia)"
28.04. Wakweya Gobena (Universität Potsdam): "HAVE and EXIST strategies of predicative possession: evidence from Oromo, Amharic, Sheko, and the wider Ethiopian area"
05.05. (digital, Hausvogteiplatz) Anna Veselovsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Register variation at the interface of morphosyntax, semantics, and discourse structure – the case of Ruuli (Bantu)"
12.05. Tatiana Korol (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): tba
19.05. (digital, tbc) Jeroen Ravenhorst (Leiden University): tba
26.05. Nadja Michl (HU Berlin, Master project): tba
02.06. Markus Riedel (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): tba
09.06. Adrian Krause (HU Berlin, Master project): tba
16.06. Jan Junglas (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): "On the challenges of semantic description of tripartite number marking systems"
23.06. Andrey Shluinsky (HU Berlin): tba
30.06. (digital) Sylvanus Job (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): "Towards the basic order of arguments in the Khoekhoegowab predicate: a frequency-based analysis"
07.07. Hope Dekorn (University of Legon, Ghana): tba
14.07. (Hausvogteiplatz) Henok Wondimu (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): "Information structure in Gamo: main findings"