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[Johan van der Auwera]

The Institut f=FCr Afrikanistik
Universit=E4t zu K=F6ln
D-50923 Cologne
Germany/Allemagne)

will be hosting an

International Symposium:
Typology of African Languages

on

May 21-24, 2001.


F. K. Erhard Voeltz & Ulrike Claudi are the the conveners.


The symposium will convene at the:


Arnold-Janssen-Haus
Tagungsheim, Heimvolkshochschule
Arnold-Janssen-Stra=DFe 24
D-53754 Sankt Augustin
(49.2241.237 296)


A preliminary list of papers to be presented is given below:


Felix Ameka:  "Multiverb constructions and grammaticalization in Kwa:  A

typological approach."
Hermann Batibo:  "Future tense marking in Bantu:  A typological survey."

Sonja Bosch:  "Selected abbreviated nouns in South-Eastern Bantu:  A
typological perspective."
Eithne Carlin:  "Types of possession in Trio (Cariban)."
Tucker G. Childs:  "The Atlantic-Mande interface:  typological
disparates in
contact."
Ulrike Claudi:  "Intensifiers in African languages."
Denis Creissels:  "A typology of subject marker and object marker
systems in
African languages."
Norbert Cyffer:  "From phrase to clause?  Syntactic subordination in
some
Northern Nigerian languages."
Didier Demolin:  "Typology of African vowel systems."
Gerrit Dimmendaal:  "Where verb-initial meets verb-final:  A comparison
of
two linguistic areas."
Karen Ebert:  "Some peculiar tense-aspect phenomena in African
languages."
Axel Fleisch:  "A typology of passives in African languages."
Zygmunt Frajzyngier:  "Grammaticalization of the domain of reference."
Ludwig Gerhard:  "Serial verbs and Tam markers in Plateau."
Talmy Giv=F3n:  "Indiscrete grammatical relations:  The Lunda passive."
Colette Grinevald & D=E9nis Creissels:  "Noun classes in African and=
 Amazonian
languages. A comparison."
Thomas G=FCldemann:  "Complex predicates:  An areal feature in Northeast

Africa and its variation."
Jean-Marie Hombert:  "Language classification vs. genetic classification
in
Africa."
Paul Hopper:  "Some thoughts on verb serialization from a typological
perspective."
Larry M. Hyman:  "African tone typologies and universals of tone."
Raimund Kastenholz:  "S-aux-O-V" word order in Mande."
Suzanne Kemmer:  "Causative construction in Luo in typological
perspective."
Christa Kilian-Hatz & Claudia Riehl:  "Sentence words as a missing link
between syntax and morphology?  Evidence from African and European=
 languages."
Christa K=F6nig:  "Case in African languages."
Tania Kuteva & Bernhard Comrie:  "The typology of relative clause
formation
in African languages."
Kezie Lebikaza:  "Word categories in Kabyle."
Karsten Leg=E8re:  "Prefix or not, this is the question."
Ronald Longacre:  "Light on the structure of Biblical Hebrew by showing
its
typological resemblance to certain languages of East Africa."
Friederike L=FCpke:  "Body part nouns in West African languages."
Ian Maddieson:  "The typology of the phonetic bases of vowel harmony
systems
in African languages."
Gudrun Miehe:  "Strategies for detransitivization in Gur."
Martin Mous:  "The typology of derivational middles in African
languages."
Salikoko Mufwene:  "How Bantu is Kiyansi? A re-examination of its verbal

inflections."
Michael Noonan:  "How cool are African languages?"
Derek Nurse:  "Aspect and tempus in reduced (Pidgin, Creole, contact,
vehicular) Bantu languages."
Mechthild Reh:  "A typology of experiencer constructions in African=
 languages."
Brigitte Reineke:  "Transitivity in the Gur verbal system."
Hans-J=FCrgen Sasse:  "Typological characteristics of Cushitic
languages."
Thilo Schadeberg:  "The synchronic range:  From auxiliary to tense
marker in
Swahili."
Ronald Schaeffer:  "Emai's BE constructions in typological perspective."

Soteria Svorou:  "The universality of concepts and of linguistic
categories:
The case of containment."
Eve Sweetser:  "Tense, aspect and viewpoint:  What gestural deixis can
add
to our understanding of language."
Yvonne Treis:  "Reflexive and Reciprocal in Kxoe (Central Khoisan) from
a
typological point of view."
F. K. Erhard Voeltz:  "Typological characteristics of Niger Congo."
Rainer Vossen:  "Typological characteristics of Khoisan languages."
Ekkehard Wolff:  "Typological characteristics of Chadic languages."
Zelealem Leyew:  "Adjectives across Ethiopian languages."




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F. K. Erhard Voeltz, Ph.D.
Institut fuer Afrikanistik
Universitaet zu Koeln
Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7
50923 Koeln/Cologne
Germany/Allemagne

tel:   0221.470.4741; fax: 0221.470.5158