LINGUIST List 13.59

Fri Jan 11 2002

Confs: Ling Theories & Subsaharan Languages,France

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1. norab, Conference: Linguistic Theories and Subsaharan Languages

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL:
THEORIES LINGUISTIQUES
ET LANGUES SUBSAHARIENNES
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
LINGUISTIC THEORIES
AND SUBSAHARAN LANGUAGES

Organis� par l'UMR 7023 du CNRS Structures formelles du langage : typologie et
acquisition, po�tique et m�trique avec le soutien de l'Ecole Doctorale 
Cognition, langage, interaction, Universit� Paris VIII
et du Service de la Recherche, Universit� Paris VIII
6, 7, 8 F�vrier 2002
February 6, 7, 8 2002
SALLE B106
ROOM B106 

Universit� Paris VIII St. Denis - 2, rue de la libert�, 93526 Saint- Denis
Cedex, France 


Mercredi, 6 f�vrier 2002
Wednesday, February 6, 2002 
08H45-09H30 ACCUEIL ET INSCRIPTION/REGISTRATION
09H30-09H45 OUVERTURE DU COLLOQUE/OPENING ADDRESS
09H45-10H30 Alexis Dimitriadis (UiL - OTS)
Amanda Seidl (Universit� Johns Hopkins, Baltimore)
Statives and Reciprocal morphology in Swahili 
10H30-11H15 Juvenal Ndayiragije (Universit� de Toronto) 
The syntax and semantics of Bantu reciprocals : A
unified Account 
11H15-11H45 PAUSE CAFE/COFFEE BREAK 
11H45-12H30 Enoch Aboh (Universit� d'Amsterdam) 
Object Shift and verb serialization in Kwa
12H30-14H15 DEJEUNER/LUNCH
14H15-15H15 CONFERENCIERS INVITES/INVITED SPEAKERS
Nick Clements (CNRS, Paris)
Sylvester Osu (LLACAN, Villejuif)
L'harmonie nasale en ikwere : implications pour la repr�sentation
phonologique" 
15H15-16H00 Don Salting (Montana) 
Inventory driven features for vowel height 
16H00-16H30 PAUSE CAFE/COFFEE BREAK 
16H30-17H15 Fiona Mc Laughlin (Universit� du Kansas) 
Some theoretical consequences of phonological
agreement in Wolof : Parallels between reduplication and agreement
17H15-18H00 Shamila Naidoo (Universit� de Natal,
Universit� de Stellenbosch) 
A revisiting of palatalization in the Nguni languages 


Jeudi, 7 f�vrier 2002
Thursday, February 7, 2002
09H30-10H15 Felix K. Ameka (Universit� de Leiden) 
Languages confronting theories which deny their
existence; The cases of Ewe and Likpe 
10H15-11H00 James Essegbey (Universit� de Leiden) 
Inherent complement verbs in Ewe 
11H00-11H30 PAUSE CAFE/COFFEE BREAK 
11H30-12H30 CONFERENCIER INVITE/INVITED SPEAKER
Sam Mchombo (Universit� de Berkeley) 
On discontinous constituents in Chichewa
(Chinyanja) 
12H30-14H15 DEJEUNER/LUNCH
14H15-15H00 Anne Zribi-Hertz & Lamine Diagne (UMR 7023, CNRS/
Universit� Paris-8) 
Anchoring, clause structure, and subject obviation: some
teachings from Wolof 
15H00-15H45 Nina Pawlak(Universit� de Varsovie) 
Nominal constituent in the form of verb finite
phrase in Hausa and other Chadic languages 
15H45-16H15 PAUSE CAFE/COFFEE BREAK 
16H15-17H00 Alain Kihm (CNRS/Universit� de Paris VII) 
What's in a noun : Noun classes, gender, and
nominality 
17H00-18H00 CONFERENCIER INVITE/INVITED SPEAKER
Denis Creissels (Laboratoire DDL/Universit� Louis-Lumi�re,
Lyon II) 
Adjectif et adverbe dans les langues africaines

 
Vendredi, 8 f�vrier 2002
Friday, February 8, 2002
09H30-10H15 Lutz Marten (SOAS, Londres) 
Conjunct agreement : the importance of words in context 
10H15-11H00 L�lia Picabia (UMR 7023, CNRS/
Universit� Paris-8) 
Le marqueur de d�finitude dans la position sujet en
comorien 
11H00-11H30 PAUSE CAFE/COFFEE BREAK 
11H30-12H15 Karl Gadelii (UNESCO/Universit� Paris VIII) 
La v�rification des traits sujet en bantu
12H15-14H00 DEJEUNER/LUNCH
14H00-15H00 CONFERENCIERS INVITES/INVITED SPEAKERS
Larry Hyman (Universit� de Berkeley)
Christiane Paulian (LACITO, CNRS Paris)
Abstract Vowel Harmony in KaloN: In Support of Underlying Representations
15H00-15H45 Victor Manfredi (Universit� de Boston) 
A fonosyntactic parameter within Benue-kwa and its
consequences for Edo 
15H45-16H15 PAUSE CAFE/COFFEE BREAK 
16H15-17H00 CONFERENCIER INVITEE/INVITED SPEAKER
Annie Rialland (CNRS, UMR 7018/ILPGA, Universit� de Paris III) 
Tonologie africaine et mod�lisation de l'intonation

R�serve/Alternate Speakers:
EuroIlham Dupont (Universit� d'Orl�ans), 
La morphologie verbale du sonink�:l'alternance Accompli - Inaccompli
EuroSylvie Voisin Nouguier (Universit� Lumi�re Lyon II), 
Le syncr�tisme causatif/applicatif en wolof

 
Comit� scientifique :
Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho, Jacqueline Lecarme, L�a Nash, Sharon Peperkamp,
L�lia Picabia, Patrick Sauzet, Anne Zribi-Hertz


Organisateurs : 
Nisrine Al-Zahre <mailto:nesrinefree.fr> , Nora Boneh
<mailto:norabclub-internet.fr> , Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
<mailto:cabredolinguist.jussieu.fr> , Jean-Bosco Sima-Mve
<mailto:simamveyahoo.com>