28.4647, Confs: Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/South Africa

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-4647. Mon Nov 06 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.4647, Confs: Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax/South Africa

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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:42:19
From: Kate Huddlestone [kate.huddlestone at gmail.com]
Subject: 6th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop

6th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop 
Short Title: SAMWOP-6 

Date: 30-Nov-2017 - 02-Dec-2017 
Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa 
Contact: Kate Huddlestone 
Contact Email: katevg at sun.ac.za 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/samwop6/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, is proud to be
hosting the sixth annual Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop
(SAMWOP-6). SAMWOP brings together linguists working in the area of Southern
African microlinguistics (broadly defined as linguistics which focuses on the
structure of language as opposed to, for example, its sociological or
educational role in society). This includes researchers based in Southern
Africa working in various areas of theoretical and general linguistics,
including phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as those based
elsewhere working on, for example, South African Bantu languages, Afrikaans
and Khoisan languages, as well as other African languages, particularly from
neighbouring countries. 

The workshop provides an opportunity for longer presentations and in-depth
discussion, with hour-long time slots available, as well as half-hour slots
for students. SAMWOP is an important forum for research and networking for
junior researchers and students because it is free and fosters a friendly and
collaborative atmosphere through its flexible setup, without parallel
sessions, and time for informal discussion, as well as its relatively small
size. 

As with the previous SAMWOP workshops, a special issue of Stellenbosch Papers
in Linguistics Plus (SPiL Plus) will be set aside to which attendees will be
encouraged to submit their papers. 

Stellenbosch University will provide a venue for the talks, and there will be
no workshop registration fee, but workshop attendees will have to pay their
own way in terms of accommodation and travel. 

In addition to the main workshop, there will be a pre-workshop focusing on the
greatly under-described and critically endangered Khoisan languages that fall
within the Eastern Kalahari division of the Khoe family. Details about the
pre-workshop will be made available separately, but it is envisaged that this
‘jam session’ for the presentation of data on aspects of syntax in various
Khoisan languages that have so far only been described in broad typological
terms, and which now require formal modelling, will take place on 29 November,
with a welcoming function for SAMWOP (pre-)workshop attendees in the evening.

Program: 

Wednesday 29 November 2017:

8:30 – 17:30:
Pre-workshop on Eastern Kalahari Khoe languages

18:00:
(Pre-)Workshop welcome function (Postgraduate & International Office, Wilcocks
Building)

Thursday 30 November 2017:

8:15 – 08:30:
Welcome and Introduction

8:30 – 09:30:
Ian Bekker
Mr. Flemming, Ms. Murchie and The Lady in White: a phonetic analysis of early
South African English

9:30 – 10:30:
Theresa Biberauer & Marie-Louise van Heukelum
Ja-nee, she said 'No, listen, I'm fine!': YES and NO in South African English
and Afrikaans

10:30 – 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:15:
Ana Gauché & Kate Huddlestone
The pragmatic marker shame in South African English

11:15 – 12:15:
Theresa Biberauer
A modern generative perspective on the distinctiveness of South African
English, and Afrikaans: on the peripheral significance of speakers and hearers

12:15-12:45:
Napjadi Letsoalo
The Youth Version of the Popular Multilingual Register in Pretoria:
#LearnSepitori

12:45 – 14:15: Lunch

14:15 – 15:15:
Sean Bowerman 
Preposition Particles

15:15 – 16:15:
Jochen Zeller
Particle verb nominalisation and particle nouns

16:15 – 16:30: Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30: 
Erin Pretorius
The Emergent Category P: A View from Morphosyntactic Variation in Afrikaans
Adpositions

18:00: Workshop dinner (De Oude Werf)

Friday 1 December 2017:

8:30 – 9:30:
Cynthia Miller-Naude & Jacobus Naude
Differentiating Dislocations, Topicalization and Extraposition in Biblical
Hebrew: Evidence from Negation

9:30 – 10:30:
Kate Huddlestone
Negative constructions in South African Sign Language: Question-Answer clauses

10:30 – 10:45: Tea Break

10:45 – 11:15:
Jean-Marie Potgieter
A syntactic account for post-nie2 elements in Afrikaans negation

11:15 – 12:15:
Andrew van der Spuy
Bare relative clauses: a parallel-processing analysis

12:15 – 12:45:
Robyn Berghoff
Second-language processing of filler-gap dependencies in English: A self-
paced reading study with L1

12:45 – 14:15: Lunch

14:15 – 15:15:
Johanita Kirsten
Changes in the Afrikaans genitive since standardization

15:15 – 16:15:
Jac Conradie
The role of stress patterns in the formation of Afrikaans past participles

16:15 – 16:30: Tea Break

16:30 – 17:30:
Lee Pratchett
A comparative analysis of grammatical relations in two Southeastern Ju
varieties

17:30 – 18:30:
Menán du Plessis
The natural if rare genesis of clicks in localised Bantu languages: a
diachronic scenario

Saturday 2 December 2017:

08:30 – 09:30:
Alex Andrason
The (formal) aberrancy of ideophones in Xhosa

09:30 – 10:30:
Fábio Bonfim Duarte & David Langa
On the post-verbal position of identificational focus in Changana

10:30 – 10:45: Tea Break

10:45 – 11:45:
Thera Crane & Bastian Persohn
Coming-to-be in Bantu: towards an ontology and epistemology of inchoative
verbs

11:45 – 12:45:
Kristina Reidel 
Applicatives and argument status in Bantu

12:45 – 14:15: Lunch Break

14:15 – 14:45:
Peter Msaka & Theresa Biberauer
Some aspects of the grammar of deverbal nominalisation in Chichewa

14:45 – 15:45:
Ron Simango
Spatial Deixis in ciNsenga

15:45 – 16:00: Tea Break

16:00 – 16:30:
Stefan Savić
Information Structure and Grammatical Aspect in Xhosa

16:30 – 17:30:
Tarald Taraldsen
The locative-forming e- in Nguni

17:30: Close & post-workshop drinks

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