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Sat Dec 22 2007
Confs: Syntax, Narrow Bantu/Netherlands
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1. Kristina
Riedel,
Movement and Word Order in Bantu
Message 1: Movement and Word Order in Bantu
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Date: 21-Dec-2007
From: Kristina Riedel <k.riedellet.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Movement and Word Order in Bantu
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Movement and Word Order in Bantu
Date: 07-Mar-2008 - 08-Mar-2008
Location: Leiden, Netherlands
Contact: Kristina Riedel
Contact Email: bantu_conferencelet.leidenuniv.nl
Meeting URL: http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=9&c=541
Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Language Family(ies): Narrow Bantu
Meeting Description:
The 'Movement and Word Order in Bantu' Conference aims to bring together
linguists with different theoretical perspectives to discuss word order and
morphology and their links to information structure.
Movement and Word Order in Bantu
Conference Progamme
Day 1: Friday, 7 March 2008
9:30-10:30
Lutz Marten* - Information Structure and Agreement
10:30-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:45
Session 1
10:45-11:25
Marjorie Pak - Relativization and Clause Size in Luganda
11:25-12:05
Kristina Riedel - Object Marking and Dislocation in Sambaa and Haya
12:05-12:45
Nancy Kula - Non-Promotional Passives in Bemba: A Case for No Movement
12:45-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:20
Session 2
14:00-14:40
Peter Muriungi - In Situ Subject Wh-Phrases in Kîîtharaka
14:40-15:20
Lisa Cheng - On Wh in Situ in Bantu Languages
15:20-15:35
Coffee
15:35-16:55
Session 3
15:35-16:15
Rose Letsholo - The Syntactic Distribution of Argument and Adjunct WH Phrases in
Ikalanga
16:15-16:55
Leston Buell - Moved IP and Postverbal C: Negative Reason Questions in Zulu
16:55-17:20
Coffee
17:20-18:20
Katherine Demuth* - Sesotho Passives
Conference Dinner
Day 2:
Saturday, 8 March 2008
9:00-10:00
Laura Downing* - The Prosodic Consequences of Varying Word Order in Selected
Bantu Languages
10:00-10:15
Coffee
10:15-12:15
Session 1
10:15-10:55
Roger van Otterloo - Topic and Focus in Kifuliiru: Clause Word Order, and Pauses
10:55-11:35
Oliver Kröger - Word Order and Information Structure in Mozambican Bantu Languages
11:35-12:15
Nobuko Yoneda - Word Order and Information Structure in Matengo
12:15-13:45
Lunch
13:45-15:05
Session 2
13:45-14:25
Michael J. Diercks - Licensing Inversion: Bukusu in the Typology of Locative
Inversion
14:25-15:05
Brent Henderson - Agreement, Case, and Focus in Bantu OVS Clauses
15:05-15:20
Coffee
15:20-16:40
Session 3
15:20-16:00
Yukiko Morimoto - Two Types of Topic and Their Structures
16:00-16:40
Vicki Carstens - Subject Position and Information Structure: Evidence from Kilega
16:40-17:00
Coffee
17:00-18:00
Jochen Zeller* - On Pre- and Postverbal Subjects in Bantu
* = invited speaker
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