Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Summary winter semester 2018/19

  • 23.10. Rong Chen (Universität Leipzig): “Plural forms in the world’s languages”
  • 30.10. Jakob Maché  (HU Berlin): “Serial verb constructions in West African Languages: diagnostics for delimitation and classification”
  • 6.11. Tom Güldemann and Ines Fiedler (HU Berlin): “A new type of concurrent nominal classification in Niger-Congo”
  • 13.11. Marcel Mindemann (HU Berlin, Master project): „Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in den Wortvermeidungsstrategien der In Law-Sprachen Ost- und Südafrikas”
  • 27.11. Jan Junglas (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “First findings on the gender and number systems of Kadu”
  • 4.12. Ron Schaefer (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville): “Prohibitives in West Africa: initial impressions”
  • 18.12. Sylvanus Job (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “The distribution of passives in a Khoekhoegowab corpus: a preliminary analysis”
  • 8.1. Tom Güldemann (HU Berlin): “Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu”
  • 15.1. Benedikt Winkhart (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “On the pronominal system of Limassa”
  • 22.1. Dmitri Bondarev (Universität Hamburg): “Falling out of the class: the verb ‘fall’ in Old Kanembu and Saharan”
  • 29.1. Henok Wondimu (HU Berlin, Ph.D. project): “Case and topic marking in Gamo”
  • 5.2. Kofi Yakpo (The University of Hong Kong): “The expansion of the English-lexifier contact languages of Africa: processes, causes, consequences”
  • 12.2. Lena Siede (HU Berlin, Master project): „Sprachliche Höflichkeit in Südafrika”