Workshop: Gender across Niger-Congo - 29.11. / 30.11.2018
Location: Humboldt University Berlin "re:work", IGK Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive
Georgenstr. 23, 10117 Berlin, 6th floor, Conference room
Organizer: Dr. Ines Fiedler, Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann
Understanding ‘gender’ as noun classification combined with grammatical agreement, the project “Nominal classification between gender and declension” investigates gender and its relation to morphological and other formal marking on the noun in African languages.
One main goal of the project is the reconstruction of gender systems in Niger-Congo on different genealogical levels. By focusing on five geographical pools of Niger-Congo that possess functioning gender and associated systems of nominal inflection and derivation and that show a wide geographical and genealogical spread, the project hopes to shed light on the still enigmatic history of the largest language family in both Africa and on a global level.
The international workshop “Gender across Niger-Congo”, organized by the Department of African Studies within the framework of this research project, brought together leading researchers on nominal classification in such Niger-Congo groups as Atlantic, Adamawa and Benue-Kwa, thus providing important insights into the macro- and microstructure of gender systems in these language groups.
Program
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29.11.18 | ||
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Tom Güldemann & Ines Fiedler |
Introduction |
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| 10.30 – 11.30 | Lee Pratchett |
An areal and typological appraisal of gender in Ju |
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| 11.30 – 12.30 |
Ron Schaefer |
Edoid noun class and gender systems
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| 14.00 – 15.00 | Ines Fiedler & Tom Güldemann |
The reconstruction of the Guang gender system
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| 15.00 – 16.00 | Mark van de Velde & Dmitry Idiatov |
The relation between noun form classes and agreement classes in Adamawa and beyond
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| 16.30 – 17.30 | Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer |
Agreement and noun form classes in Vere (Benue-Volta)
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| 17.30 – 18.30 | Florian Lionnet |
The gender system of Laal (isolate) in typological and areal perspective
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30.11.18 |
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| 09.00 – 10.00 | Jack Merrill |
Evidence from Atlantic for a recently grammaticalized classifier system in early Niger-Congo
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| 10.30 – 11.30 | Konstantin Pozdniakov |
Some properties of the Atlantic noun class systems in the Niger-Congo context
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| 11.30 - 12.30 | Michael Schulze |
Morphosyntax of gender and deriflection in Southern Mel
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| 14.00 – 15.00 | Denis Creissels |
Genders, inflectional classes of nouns, and the non-contextual use of “classes” in Jóola Fóoñi (Atlantic)
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| 15.00 – 16.00 | Guillaume Segerer |
Noun class assignment in a comparative perspective: the Bak languages (Niger-Congo, Atlantic)
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| 16.30 – 17.30 | Tom Güldemann & Jan Junglas |
Gender and number in Kadu with particular reference to Krongo
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| 17.30 – 18.30 | Roundtable |
