35.680, Calls: Grammatical Structures in Nilo-Saharan

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Subject: 35.680, Calls: Grammatical Structures in Nilo-Saharan

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Date: 27-Feb-2024
From: Nadja Fiebig [nilo-saharan-workshop at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Grammatical Structures in Nilo-Saharan


Full Title: Grammatical structures in Nilo-Saharan
Short Title: NiSaGra

Date: 13-May-2024 - 14-May-2024
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Contact Person: Jochen Trommer
Meeting Email: nilo-saharan-workshop at uni-leipzig.de
Web Site: https://home.uni-leipzig.de/nilo-saharan-workshop/

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax
Language Family(ies): Nilo-Saharan

Call Deadline: 17-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

Nilo-Saharan languages are still one of the empirically least
understood language families. At the same time, recent years have seen
a surge in fieldwork showing that they provide an astonishing wealth
of grammatical phenomena of prime significance for theoretical and
typological work (see, e.g. van Urk 2018 on pronoun copying in Dinka,
Kouneli & Nie 2021 on true tone polarity in Kipsigis, Joswig 2019 on
downstep as a grammatical boundary marker in Majang, Kouneli 2021 on
tripartite number marking in Kipsigis, and Ladd & Blum 2021 on number
morphology in Dinka).

On this background, we are delighted to announce NiSaGra, a workshop
on ``grammatical structures in Nilo-Saharan”. This 2-day conference
will take place at Leipzig University on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th
May 2024.

Our invited speakers are

Maria Kouneli (Rutgers University) and
Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University of London)

Call for Papers:

Submission instructions:

We invite abstract submissions for a 20 minute talk (plus 10 minute
discussion) on formal approaches to the grammatical structure of
Nilo-Saharan languages. We welcome theoretical analyses from the areas
of syntax, morphology, phonology and semantics. Abstracts should not
exceed 2 pages including references, examples, tables and figures (A4
paper, 12pt Times New Roman font or similar, 2.54cm/1 inch margins on
all sides). Abstracts should be sent to
nilo-saharan-workshop at uni-leipzig.de in pdf format.

Timeline:

Submission Deadline: March 17th 2024
Abstract notification time (estimated): End of March, 2024
Workshop: May 13th – May 14th 2024


References:

Ladd, D. R. & Blum, M. (2021) On the systematic nature of Dinka noun
number morphology. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
42(2):223–252.

Joswig, A. (2019) The Majang Language. PhD thesis, Leiden University.

Kouneli, M.  (2021) Number-based noun classification: The view from
Kipsigis. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 39: 1195–1251.

Kouneli, M. and Nie, Y. (2021) Across-the-board tonal polarity in
Kipsigis: Implications for the morphology-phonology interface.
Language, 97:111–138.

van Urk, C.  (2018) Pronoun copying in Dinka Bor and the Copy Theory
of Movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory  36:937–990.



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