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osu.edu <David_Oddenosu.edu>Tentative Schedule for the 24th Annnual Conference on African Linguistics July 23-25, Ohio State University FRIDAY JULY 23 [Fawcett Conference Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road] 8:00 Registration 8:45 Opening remarks 9:00 PLENARY SESSION: Larry Hyman & Francis Katamba The Luganda Syllable Revisited PARALLEL SESSIONS 10:30 Jin-young Tak; Asymmetric Coordinations in Kilega Farida Cassimjee & C.Kisseberth; The Phrasal Phonology of Shingazidja M. Lionel Bender; Is Nilo-Saharan Really a Phylum? 11:00 Paul Law; Subject/Object Asymmetry in Fon Niken Adisasmito & Simon Donnelly; Grammatical Tone Assignment in Rwanda Salikoko S. Mufwene; How Bantu Is Kiyansi? Evidence From Agreement 11:30 Huaiyu Liu; A GPSG Account of the Subject-Object Asymmetry in Fula Relative Clauses Elaine P. Hsiao; The Tonal Domain of the Kinyarwanda Verbal System Julie Croston; CheTswapong: a Sotho-Tswana Language 1:30 Adams Bodomo & Marc Oostendorp; Serial Verb Nominalisations in Dagaare Kimary N. Shahin; Grounded Phonology and C-to-V [PHAR] Spread in Palestinian Arabic Joe Amoako; The Phonological Characteristics of Assimilated Portuguese, Dutch and English Borrowed Words in Akan 2:00 Chris Collins; Some Notes on Unaccusativity and Serial Verb Constructions Frederick Parkinson; Vowel Harmony in Efik and Ibibio Jan Bernstein; Variability in the Assimilation of English Loans in Shona 2:30 Bettina Migge; Serial Verb Constructions in Ibibio Deborah Schmidt; Vowel Raising in Basaa Sue Hasselbring; Bilingualism and Language Choice Among the Bullom People of Sierra Leone 3:00 Andrew S. Allen; Compound Nouns and Sentences and Relative Clauses in Ewe Roderic F. Casali; Labial Opacity and Roundness Harmony in Nawuri Mohammed Ali; Language and National Identity: the Case of Oromo 4:00 Josephat M Rugemalira; The Case Against the Thematic Hierarchy Charles Kisseberth & Emmanuel Ndabasara; The Nominal Tonology of Rukiga Philip J. Jaggar & Malami Buba; The Space and Time Adverbials NAN/CAN in Hausa: Cracking the Deictic Code 4:30 Andrew van der Spuy; The Topicality Hierarchy and the Nguni Object Clitic Nasiombe Mutonyi; Tone in Bukusu Verb Structure Lioba Moshi & David Dwyer; Pure V Grammaticalized Ideophones 5:00 Edward A. Miner; Locative Inversions in Kiswahili Lee S. Bickmore; Linking Constraint Violations in Ekegusii Paul Newman; Stability and Variation in Hausa Ideophones 5:30 Silvester Ron Simango; From Oblique To Subject: Another Look At Chichewa Subjectivization Aaron Shryock; The Nominal Tonology of Musey Harriet Ottenheimer; Computer-Assisted Lexicography With a Bantu Language: the ShiNzwani Dictionary SATURDAY JULY 24 [Denny Hall] 9:00 Zygmunt Frajzyngier & Erin Shay; Modal Function of the Order of Clauses Andrew Tilimbe Kulemeka; Bimoraicity and Phonological Wordhood in Chichewa Ideophones David R. Woods; Changing Patterns of Language Utilization in Republic of Congo 9:30 Maxime Da Cruz; Aspectual Verbs fo, vo `finish' in Fongbe Rick Treece; Syllabic Stress in Swahili Leocadie Nahishakiye; Towards a Sociolinguistic Study of Rundi Language and Sex 10:00 Emily Embree; The Morpheme `mo' and the Dogon Genitive Construction Mayrene Bentley; The Syllable Structure of Swahili Sheila Mmusi; African Languages in the Debate on Medium of Instruction in South Africa 11:00 June Wickboldt; Binding Conditions and Logophoric Pronouns Francis Katamba & Larry Hyman; Prosodic Structure and the Delimitation of Rule Domains in Luganda Raphael O. Atoye; Sex Differentiation in the Acquisition of Phonology Amongst Nigerian Users of English 11:30 Christopher Culy; Agreement of Fula Pronouns David A. Peterson; Against INFL-VERB Compounding in Luganda Makasa Kasonde; Multiparty Democracy in Africa and Its Implication For Language Development 1:30 Melynda Dunigan; The Focus Construction In Wolof Ian Maddieson & Bonny Sands; Aperture Positions: A New Approach Rolf Theil Endresen; A Diachronic Study of Fula Conjugation Cheryl Zoll; Unchained Melody: Vowel Zero Alternations in Afar 2:00 George T. Teke; Arguments For V-Raising Into TOP in Metta Chip Gerfen & John Mugane; Aperture Geometry, Feature Cooccurrence, and Meinhof's Law in Kikuyu Emmanuel Osam; The Fall and Rise of a Noun Class System -- the Case of Akan Mustapha Ahmad; The Tonal System of Hausa Compounds 2:30 Pascal De Campos; Lexical Processes and Syntax of the Hausa Grade System Jose Tourville; A Manding Language With SV-nasals Heather Weber; An Historical Explanation For a Typologically Odd Language: Logbara Maria-Rosa Lloret; Stop Consonant Assimilation in Oromo: an Interdialectal Approach 3:00 David Odden; Strange Case in Angas Honore Kamany; On Nasal Homorganic Clusters M.K.C. Uwajeh; A Bini Language Base For Some Dialects of the Igbo Language? Omar Irshied; Epenthesis in Bedouin Arabic in Jordan 4:00 Sorie Yillah; SPECIFIER, Case, and Agreement in Temne Jiang-King Ping; Prosodic Domains and Vowel Sandhi in Igede Mike Hall; Nilotic Stem Formation I: Oran-Nasal Alternation in C2 Position 4:30 Robbin Clamons; The Roles of N and T in the Discourse Structure of Oromo Eugene Buckley; Tigrinya Root Consonants and the OCP Pete Mhunzi; The Creation Myth of the Agekuyu With a Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Kiswahili Translations 5:00 Bertram Okolo; Questioning in Conversational Interaction: the Igbo Case David Askins; The Nasal Prefix in Ila: Implications For Feature Geometry and Redundancy Rule Ordering Margaret Wade Lewis; African Cosmology in Science Fiction By Butler 5:30 Ernest S. Akerejola; Fidelity To Oko Syntax of Halliday's Functional Approach To Grammatical Analysis John M. Mugane; On Nasal Assimilation in Gikuyu Kwenzi-Mikala Jerome Tangu; Punu Personal Names SATURDAY NIGHT: AFRICAN BANQUET (Tickets $7.00) SUNDAY JULY 25 [University Hall] 9:00 Marnie Jo Petray; The Tense, Mood, and Aspect System of Krobo Dangme Grace A. Masagbor; The Associative Morpheme "E" in Ivie Remi Sonaiya; BEING in Yoruba and French: Variations on a Theme Yetunde Laniran; Implementing a Floating L Tone 9:30 Uschi Drolc; On the Perfect in Swahili Anbessa Teferra; Coronal Underspecification in Sidamo Philip W. Lewis; The Acquisition of Click Phonemes By Xhosa Speaking Children Akinbiyi Akinlabi; The Phonetic Realization of the Yoruba Mid Tone 10:00 Lionel Posthumus; Absolute and Relative Tenses in Zulu Jane Akinyi Ngala; The Dholuo Syllable Structure Mamadou Niang; Role of the Degree of Fluency on Language Choice in Language Alternation. Yetunde Laniran & G.N Clements; Downstep Revisited 11:00 Robert Botne; To Assert Or To Doubt: Evidentiary Justification in Kelega Eluzai Moga Yokwe; High Tone Alternation in Bari Language Osepetetreku Kwame Osei; The Akan Word 'Ya' Ian Maddieson; EMMA and Ewe 11:30 Ronald P. Schaefer & Francis Egbokhare; Emotion Verbs in Emai Francis Moto; Aspects of Chichewa Phrasal Phonology Tajdeen Y. Surakat; Bilingual First Language Acquisition of an African Child Benjamin R. Munson, Jr.; An Acoustic Study of Uvulars in Tatooga: Evidence Against Quantal Theory 1:30 Carolyn Harford; Infinitives in Gikuyu Donald G. Churma; Hausa Reduplication and Prosodic Theories of Reduplication Kathleen Hubbard; The Manifestation of Vowel Quantity in Bantu: A Comparative Study 2:00 Katherine Demuth & Jeffery Gruber; IP Iteration & XP Sequences in Bantu William R. Leben; A Reanalysis of Hausa Plurals J. W. Snyman; The Clicks of Zu/'hoasi: A Confusion of Sounds? 2:30 Mubangu Itangaza; WH-Movement in Kilega Brian D. McHugh; Optimality Theory and Hausa Noun Plurals Joseph Mfusi; Iscamtho: an Urban Vernacular or Zulu Slang? A.S. Nchimbi; Formant Structure of Kiswahili Vowels 3:00 Mika Hoffman; The Surface Realization of Double-object Predicates in Kwa and Bantu Myles Leitch; Babole Verbal Reduplication Chukwuma Azuoney; Inspiration and Design of the Nwagu Aneke Igbo Syllabary From South-Central Nigeria Keith Snider; Tonal Downstep Or Upstep? 3:30 BUSINESS MEETING 4:00 Wafaa Batnan; The Syntax of Small Clauses in Arabic Olanike Ola; Non-exhaustive Syllabification in Yoruba S. A. Swanepoel; The Expression of Colour in Setswana: A Terminological Challenge 4:30 Alhassoumi Sow Salamatou; Les Sujets Du Predicat Peul Sharon Rose; Verb Templates and Floating Affixes in Ethio-semitic Sophia A. Adjaye; Akan and English Proverbs 5:00 Paulette Roulon-Doko; L'expression De La Qualification (l'exemple Du Gbaya 'bodoe) Andy Mothusi Chebanne; The Imbrication of Suffixes in Setswana J. H. Olowe; A Critique of the Modern Yoruba Orthography HOUSING INFORMATION For all of these, please identify yourself as connected with the African Linguistics Conference. On campus, dorm rooms are available. For reservations contact: Doug Koyle, Conference Housing $25.00 Single OSU $14.75 Double 85 Curl Drive $10.25 per person in triple or quadruple Columbus, OH 43210 Phone 614-292-9725 Contact them as early as possible: July 1 is the absolute deadline. OFF CAMPUS MOTELS/HOTELS: Red Roof Inn $33.99-$44.99 Single Phone 800-874-9000 $40.99-$51.99 Double 315 and Ackermann $51.99 three people Refer to block number B-121-0000-62. Rooms must be paid for with cash or credit card. It is possible (but dispreferred) to contact Natasha at (Phone) 614-876-3345 or (Fax) 614-771-8722. Please leave a return phone or fax number so she can contact you. Deadline for reservations: July 12 Olentangy Inn $26.95 1 person 1 bed Phone 800-354-3492 $31.95 2 persons 1 bed Phone 614-294-5211 $36.95 2 persons 2 beds 1299 Olentangy River Road Deadline for reservations: June 15 Cross Country Inn (OSU South) $34.95 1 person 1 bed Phone 800-621-1429 $41.95 2 persons 1 bed Phone 614-291-2983 $43.95 2 persons 2 beds Fax 614-766-6953 1445 Olentangy River Road Ask for Beth. Deadline for reservations: July 8. Holiday Inn OSU $57.00 1-4 people 328 Lane Ave. Phone 800-465-4329 Phone 614-294-4848 Deadline for Reservations: July 1. Fawcett Conference Center $45 single 2400 Olentangy River Road $52 double Phone 800-637-2316 $60 king Phone 614-292-3238 Deadline for Reservations: June 23 TRANSPORTATION OSU is accessible from the airport by cab ($13-$16), or by COTA bus (fare $1.10 with transfer). Take the bus from the airport to downtown, and transfer to an appropriate bus there. Which bus is better depends on where you are going: General Campus, Holiday Inn, Dormitories: #2 North going north on High Street to campus. Fawcett Center, Red Roof Inn Kenny Local #18: to Ackermann. Olentangy Inn, Cross Country Inn #3 or #5: to 3rd or 5th and Olentangy River Road. We will run a shuttle bus to the conference venue stopping at the Red Roof Inn, Cross Country Inn and Olentangy Inn at 8:10 and 8:40 on Saturday and Sunday mornings. On Friday we will provide a shuttle bus to the conference site at the Fawcett Center, stopping at the Cross Country Inn and Olentangy Inn at 8:00 and 8:30. The Fawcett Center is within three blocks of the Red Roof Inn, and is also walkable from the Holiday Inn and the north dormitories. To pre-Register, please send the following information along with your check. 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