18.07.-20.07.22 Meeting "Kalahari Basin Area Languages and Cultures"
Together with the Institute for African Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt a.M., the IAAW organised the conference "Kalahari Basin Area Languages and Cultures" from 18 to 20 July, which took place in Riezlern in Kleinwalsertal (Austria).
The focus of the contributions was on the non-Bantu languages of South Africa (Khoisan) and language contact phenomena in the language area of the Kalahari Basin.
The event was supported by a grant from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. (Ref. 30.22.0.062SL)
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Monday, 18th July |
Tuesday, 19th July |
Wednesday, 20th July |
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Welcome and introduction |
1 Hirosi Nakagawa “A phonesthemic vowel feature in Gǀui”
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1 Lee Pratchett “The pseudo-consecutive construction in Juǀ‘hoan and !Xun” |
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2 Andy M. Chebanne “Khoisan identities, attidudes and inter-ethnic relationships in Botswana”
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2 Alexander Andrason “Conative animal calls in Tjwao”
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2 Tom Güldemann “Gender and Number across Taa”
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3 Gertrud Boden “Human-Non-human relationships among Khoisan in comparative perspective”
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3 Hessel Visser “Confrontation of PNG-markers in Naro with Indo-European languages”
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3 Menan Du Plessis “The structure of the verb complex in the !Ui language, ǀXam:an outline, with comparative reference to patterns in Khoekhoe as well as other (non-Khoisan) languages of the southern region”
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4 Kaboyaone Hiri-Khudu and Kemmonye C. Monaka “Factoring the Khoesan in the curriculum: initial expierences from Botswana”
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4 Wilfrid Haacke “Affinities between northern dialects of Khoekhoe (Sesfontein dialects, Hailom, Aakhoe) and Kalahari Khoe (Naro)”
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4 Hilde Gunnink “Contact and inheritance in the development of lateral obstruents in Southern Bantu languages”
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5 Andy M. Chebanne, Budzani Mogara and Kemmonye C. Monaka "Challenges in writing Khoisan for literacy and material development"
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5 Alena Witzlack-Makarevich "Retro-digitizing Khoekhoe text collections"
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5 Kemmonye C. Monaka and Naomi N. Moswete "Observed cultural shift: interactions between the Khoesan and Bantu peoples in the Kgalagadi area of Botswana"
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6 Matthias Brenzinger and Sheena Shah "Naked clicks and click phonems: a typology of click speech sounds" |
6 Sylvanus Job "Tense-marking in Khoekhoe temporal clauses"
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7 Kerry Jones and Bonny Sands "Lexicography in the Northern Cape: methodological challenges in producing a Nǀuu-Nama-Afrikaans-English dictionary"
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7 Christoph Wirsching "Noun coordination in Namibian Khoekhoe"
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