International Workshop “Bantu in Contact with non-Bantu”

*This event has already been held.

Date/Time

27 June, 2019 (Thu.), 10:30–17:00
28 June, 2019 (Fri.), 10:30–17:00

Venue

Room 306, 3F, ILCAA, TUFS

Program

27 June (Thu.)

10:30-10:45
Welcome and opening comments

10:45-11:45
Maarten MOUS (Leiden University)
“A thousand years of Bantu-Cushitic contact”

11:45-12:00
Break

12:00-13:00
Chrispina ALPHONCE (University of Dodoma)
“The attitude of speakers of Southern Cushitic languages of Tanzania”

13:00-14:00
Lunch

14:00-15:00
Hannah GIBSON (University of Essex)
“Language contact in East African Bantu: disentangling internal and external processes of change”

15:00-15:15
Break

15:15-16:15
Andrew HARVEY (ILCAA Junior Fellow, Post-doctoral fellow JSPS)
“Preverbal particles in Ihanzu”

16:15-17:00
General discussion

28 June (Fri.)

10:30-10:45
Welcome and quick opening discussion

10:45-11:45
Lutz Marten (SOAS, University of London)
“Language contact: centre and periphery”

11:45-12:00
Break

12:00-13:00
Hilde GUNNINK (Ghent University)
“Bantu-Khoisan language contact in Southern Africa”

13:00-14:00
Lunch

14:00-15:00
Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
“Where Chaga differs from typical Eastern Bantu: possible influence from contact with non-Bantu?”

(A video is available.)

15:00-15:15
Break

15:15-16:15
Chrispina ALPHONCE (University of Dodoma)
“The influence of Bantu-Southern Cushitic contact in numeral systems”

16:15-17:00
General discussion

17:00-17:15
Closing remarks

Language

English

Admission

Free

Pre-registration

No pre-registration is required.

Sponsored by

• Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”, ILCAA, TUFS