33.3062, Confs: Cushitic; Historical Linguistics, Lexicography, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/France

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Subject: 33.3062, Confs: Cushitic; Historical Linguistics, Lexicography, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/France

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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:02:43
From: Yvonne Treis [yvonne.treis at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Hybrid workshop on Cushitic languages

 
Hybrid workshop on Cushitic languages 

Date: 03-Nov-2022 - 04-Nov-2022 
Location: LLACAN, Villejuif & Online on Zoom, France 
Contact: Yvonne Treis 
Contact Email: yvonne.treis at cnrs.fr 
Meeting URL: https://llacan.cnrs.fr/even_venir_en.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Cushitic 
Meeting Description: 

Hybrid workhop on Cushitic languages

Venue (physically): LLACAN, Salle de réunion, 1e étage, bât. D, Campus CNRS de
Villejuif, 7 rue Guy Môquet, 94800 Villejuif, France
Online: on Zoom (link to be distributed some days before the workshop)

Organisers: Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN), Eba Teresa Garoma (Jimma University,
awardee of a CFEE/Fondation MSH scholarship – ATLAS programme) and Rahel T.
Dires (University of Helsinki, awardee of a Labex EFL incoming mobility
scholarship)

Registration is free and open to anyone. Please send an email to
yvonne.treis[at]cnrs.fr to register in order to receive the zoom link or to be
put on the list of on-site participants.
 

Program:

Workshop programme (Paris time, UTC+1)

THURSDAY 3 November 2022

14:00-14:10 Introduction by the workshop organizers 
14:10-14:45 Shimelis Mazengia Beyene (Addis Ababa University): Revisiting the
nominative case in Oromo
14:45-15:20 Girma Mengistu Desta (Addis Ababa University): Remarks on relative
pronouns of Oromo
15:20-15:55 Christopher Green (Syracuse University): Poised to pivot: on
Kenyan Maay’s restricted tone system
15:55-16:15 BREAK
16:15-16:50 Morgan Nilsson (University of Gothenburg): The functions of the
Somali verb particles soo and sii
16:50-17:25 Moreno Vergari (Ethnorema) & Giorgio Banti (University of Naples
L’Orientale)
The Italian Saho project and its developments 
17:25-18:00 Eba Teresa Garoma (Jimma University): The Oromo translation of the
bulla ineffabilis deus, one of the oldest written Oromo manuscripts (1854
E.C.)

FRIDAY 4 November 2022

9:00-9:35 Teferi Kumssa (Kotebe University of Education): Valency Changing
Operations: Causative & Middle in Rayya Oromo
9:35-10:10 Tadesse Girma (Kotebe University of Education): Lexical comparison
of Dube to Rer Bare, Somali, and Oromo
10:10-10:30 BREAK 
10:30-11:05 Tibebu Shitie (Jimma University): Verb Inflections in Dube and
Somali: A Comparative Study
11:05 11:40 Andrew Harvey (University of Bayreuth): Gorwaa Selectors: A verbal
analysis
11:40-12:15 Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle (CNRS-LLACAN): The sea world in Afar
LUNCH BREAK
14:10-14:45 Silva Nurmio (University of Helsinki): Studying the semantics and
pragmatics of number in Celtic and Cushitic
14:45-15:20 Rahel T. Dires (University of Helsinki): Singulatives in Cushitic
languages: a comparative study
15:20-15:55 Ahmed Sosal (Leiden University): Historical development of the
pluratives in Cushitic
15:55-16:15 BREAK
16:15-16:50 Martine Vanhove (CNRS-LLACAN): A Beja-English-French dictionary:
The issue of non-concatenative morphology
16:50-17:25 Mauro Tosco (University of Turin) & Bonny Sands (Northern Arizona
University): Early East African and Peripheral East Cushitic: Foragers and
pastoralists in early East Africa
17:25-18:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION





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