26.4500, FYI: Now Available: Papers from Workshop on Areal Phenomena in NSSA

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:26:18
From: Dmitry Idiatov [idiatov at vjf.cnrs.fr]
Subject: Now Available: Papers from Workshop on Areal Phenomena in NSSA

 
The abstracts and presentations from the workshop ''Areal Phenomena in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa'' held on August 23-24, 2015, Kyoto, Japan, as part of the 8th World Congress of African Linguistics are now available at:
http://idiatov.mardi.myds.me/Areal_Phenomena_in_NSSA.html

Organizers:

- Dmitry Idiatov (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris)
- Mark Van de Velde (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris)

Presentations:

- Dmitry Idiatov & Mark Van de Velde (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris) ''Areal features in northern sub-Saharan Africa: introduction''
- Guillaume Segerer (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris) ''How databases shape research: labial-velars distribution in Africa''
- Michael Cahill (SIL International) ''Labial-velars — a questionable diagnostic for a linguistic area''
- Nicholas Rolle (University of California, Berkeley) ''An areal typology of nasal vowel systems in West Africa''
- Matthew Faytak (University of California, Berkeley) ''High vowel fricativization as an areal feature of the northern Cameroon Grassfields''
- Annie Rialland (LPP-CNRS, Paris) ''The African ''lax'' question prosody: a follow up''
- Spencer Lamoureux & Florian Lionnet (University of California, Berkeley) ''Constraints on prosodic constituent structure: uncovering areal tendencies in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa''
- Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris) ''The role of discourse practice in the spread of linguistic features: The case of logophoricity''
- Larry M. Hyman, Peter Jenks, Geoffrey Bacon, Nicolas Baier, - Emily Clem, Matthew Faytak, Spencer Lamoureux, Florian Lionnet, John Merrill, Nicholas Rolle & Hannah Sande (University of California, Berkeley) ''Negation patterns in Zande''
- Tom Güldemann (Humboldt University of Berlin) & Tjerk Hagemeijer (University of Lisbon) ''The Gulf of Guinea creoles from a Macro-Sudan belt perspective''
- Kofi Yakpo (University of Hong Kong) ''Archetypal areal features in the African English-lexifier creoles''
- Georg Ziegelmeyer (University of Vienna) ''Areal diffusion in the Chadic-Kanuri contact zone''
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic





 



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