Ideophone Symposium

[Erhard Voeltz]

The Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln
D-50923 Cologne, Germany/Allemagne

wishes to announce the:

International Symposium on Ideophones.
January 25-27, 1999

F. K. Erhard Voeltz & Christa Kilian-Hatz, Conveners


The symposium will convene at the:

Arnold-Janssen-Haus
Tagungsheim, Heimvolkshochschule
Arnold-Janssen-Straße 24
D-53754 Sankt Augustin






Preliminary Program

Barry Alpher. Intonation, given and new, and ideophones in some indigenous
languages of Australia.

Yiwola Awoyale. Form-meaning interface in Yoruba ideophones.

Amha Azeb. Ideophones in Wolaitta.

Robert Blust. Is there a universal level of structure between the phoneme
and the morpheme?

Farida Cassimjee & Charles W. Kisseberth. The tonology of the ideophone in
Emakhuwa.

Tucker G. Childs. Ideophones, language variation, and language contact:
Changes in Zulu.

Denis Creissels. Ideophones as uninflected predicative lexemes in Setswana.

Didier Demolin. Ideophones and sound symbolism in Hendo.

Gérard Dumestre. L'intégration des éléments idéophoniques dans la langue :
le cas du bambara.

Francis O. Egbokhare. Phono-semantic correspondence in Emai attributive
ideophones.

Stefan Elders. Defining ideophones in Mundang.

Vesa Jarva. Expressive use of words of foreign origin.

Christa Kilian-Hatz. Ideophone or not?

Sataro Kita. Two-dimensional semantic analysis of Japanese ideophones.

Merja Koistinen. Syntactic structure of expressive words: Colorative
construction.

Daniel P. Kunene. Speaking the act: The ideophone as a linguistic rebel.

Omen N. Maduka-Durunze. Phonosemantic hierarchies.

Ngandu-Myango Malasi. Comportement des idéophones en lega (D. 25).

William McGregor. Ideophones as the source of verbs in northern Australian
languages

Eve Mikone. Are there ideophones in the Balto-Finnic languages?

Paul Newman. Are ideophones really as weird and extra-systematic as
linguists make them out to be?

Philip A. Noss. Ideas, phones and Gbaya verbal art.

Janis Nuckolls. Sound symbolic grammar of Pataza Quechua.

George Poulos & C. T. Msimang. The ideophone in Zulu--a reexamination of
descriptive and conceptual notions.

Paulette Roulon-Doko. Statut des idéophones en gbaya, langue oubanguienne de
Centrafrique.

William J. Samarin. One tale, one narrator, three languages: Ngbandi, Sango,
French.

S. C. Satyo. Ideophones and ideograms in Xhosa.

Ronald P. Schaefer. Ideophonic adverbs and manner gaps in Emai.

Eva Schultze-Berndt. Traces of ideophones in complex predicates of Northern
Australia.

Tasso Okombe. La formation des radicaux verbaux déidéophoniques en tetela
(dialecte ewango).

Jess Tauber. Complementary distribution of distinct “ideophone” classes in
left- vs. Right-headed languages.

F. K. Erhard Voeltz. The sound of silence: Contributions of African
languages to our understanding of the ideophone.

Richard L. Watson. A comparison of ideophones in Southeast Asia and Africa.



For further information:

Tel: 49.221.470.4741
Fax:  49.221.470.5158

e-mail: erhard.voeltz at uni-koeln.de
e-mail: christa.kilian at uni-koeln.de