The 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Sintu7)

Daisuke Shinagawa, a member of LingDy3 projects, co-organized a workshop with Nico Nassenstein (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz) in the 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Sintu7), held in Cape Town, on 9 to 11 July, 2018.

“Variation in Swahili: Micro-typology, Sociolinguistic Diversification and Language Contact”

9 July (Mon.)

Session 1

11:00–11:30
Daisuke SHINAGAWA, Nico NASSENSTEIN
“Toward a ‘state of the art’:Variation in Swahili, current approaches, trends and directions”

11:30–12:00
Nico NASSENSTEIN
“Toward a classification of the Western Kiswahili dialects”

12:00–12:30
Daisuke SHINAGAWA
“Notes on the distribution of relative constructions in Sheng: with special reference to –enye RC”

Session 2

14:00–14:30
Ernest Mukala KABANGE
“A propos du morpheme vocalique special °-ʹə en Kiswahili”

14:30–15:00
Bose Paulin BARAKA
“Compiling a Kivu Swahili dictionary: Challenges and prospects”

15:00–15:30
Kumiko MIYAZAKI, Keiko TAKEMURA
“Dialectal Variation in Swahili – on the Lexicon and Grammar”

Session 3

15:50-16:20
Lutz MARTEN, Rozenn GUEROIS, Hannah GIBSON
“Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili”

16:20-16:50
Makoto FURUMOTO
“On the origin of the Kimakunduchi aspect marker – me-”

16:50-17:20
Nobuko YONEDA and Kumiko MIYAZAKI
“Exclusive particles ‘only’ in Swahili: –tu and peke yake-”

(Posted 9 July,2018)