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Posted by hausaonline on Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The "19. Afrikanistentag" will be held from 08.-10. April 2010 in Mainz, Germany.
There is no overall theme for the conference. Papers should focus on African languages, dealing with any of the various aspects of their manifestation and representation.
Registration deadline is December 10, 2009.
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Posted by hausaonline on Thursday, August 20, 2009
(via SIL) Linguists representing 16 African languages are attending a workshop this month conducted by SIL Cameroon in Yaoundé to produce sketch grammars suitable to introduce bilingual or trilingual dictionaries. The UK Kay Williamson Educational Fund (KWEF) will eventually publish several of the dictionaries in which these sketch grammars appear. (continue reading at SIL website)
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Posted by useibert on Monday, August 17, 2009
From today, August 17 to Friday 21, 2009, the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL6) is held in Cologne, Germany. Dozens of papers on topics relating to all aspects of the study of African languages (including African sign languages) will be presented.
There are not many papers on Chadic languages, but there are quite a few on other Afroasiatic families, including Berber, Cushitic and Semitic.
Find out more at www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/wocal/schedule
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Posted by useibert on Saturday, June 20, 2009
The Fifth Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) has taken place in Leipzig from June 10 to 14, 2009. Here is a short report. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by useibert on Monday, June 15, 2009
Very little has been published so far on Kilba, a Chadic language spoken in Adamawa State of Nigeria, the closest relative of which is Margi. Soon, a publication on Kilba will appear at LINCOM Europe. Here are some details which the author of the book, Dr. Mohammed Aminu Mu’azu, has sent me: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by useibert on Friday, June 12, 2009
Currently, the Fifth Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) is taking place in Leipzig. Yesterday, Rüdiger Köppe (left) arrived and brought a box containing the conference volume of BICCL 4, which has just appeared. Eva Rothmaler (right) has edited this publication. Here is more information about the book: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Chadic, Publications | Tagged: Bade, BICCL, Bole, Hausa, Kanuri, kinship terms, Kirya, Kotoko, Lagwan, Mawa, morphology, Ngizim, Nyam, phonology, reconstruction, syntax, tone, typology, verbs | Leave a Comment »
Posted by useibert on Monday, May 25, 2009
The Fifth Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) will take place in Leipzig from June 10th to 14th 2009.
The conference continues the series of Leipzig (2001), Prague (2003), Villejuif/Paris (2005), and Bayreuth (2007), taking up two discontinued traditions (the series of Leiden 1976, Hamburg 1981, Boulder 1987) and the Franco-German meetings in Paris (Groupe d’Etudes tchadiques, 1980 – 1997).
It is devoted to all aspects of Chadic linguistics, in particular:
You can download the colloquium’s programme here.
Posted in Chadic, Conferences, Hausa | Tagged: BICCL, Comparative, Descriptive, Language Contact, typology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by useibert on Friday, April 17, 2009
Friendfeed is another web 2.0 style online service which enables you to keep up-to-date on web pages, photos, videos and music that others are sharing. You can also enter or create public rooms where you can discover and discuss information among friends.
Today, using Friendfeed, I have created a public room called “Chadic Languages” where I collect information related to Chadic languages which I consider worth sharing. I know that some of you may find social software just a big hype. Anyway, have a look and if you like (or dislike) it or have questions about it, let me know. Tell your students about it, since they are much more into this type of things.
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Posted by useibert on Tuesday, April 14, 2009
On LINGUIST List, Issue 20.1386, our colleague Roger Blench asks: “Do any other linguists out there sense a worrying gap between the rhetoric concerning documentation in relation to endangered languages and the reality?” Roger reminds us that “out there, languages seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate with a complete lack of basic documentation, even where something can be achieved in a couple of days.”
Is that observation true for Chadic languages, too? Which are the most severely endangered Chadic languages?
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Posted by useibert on Friday, March 20, 2009
The provisional programme for the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL6) in Cologne, Germany from August 17 to 21, 2009 is now online.
Dozens of interesting papers will be presented, including some on Chadic and other Afroasiatic languages. Find out more at www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/wocal/schedule
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