4th BICCL: Participants and Papers

The 4th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages will take place 30th-31st October 2007, at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Here is a list of participants and their respective papers:

Ahmad, Mustapha: “Hausa in the digital age: Challenges and opportunities”
Allison, Sean: “Lexical tone in Makary Kotoko“
Andreas, Heike (& Leger, Zoch): “The Nyam language – first steps towards its research and description”
Baba, Ahmad Tela (title to be announced)
Baldi, Sergio (& Leger): “The yi + noun verbs and their positioning in Hausa“
Batic, Gian Claudio: “Imaginative Dimension and Experiential Constructions in Hausa and Bole“
Blazek, Vaclav: “All Chadic lakes/ On application of glottochronology for Masa or Kotoko group”
Blench, Roger: “An introduction to Fali of Kirya”
Gravina, Richard: “Indirect Object Pronouns and Agreement in Mbuko“
Holubova, Miroslava
Ibriszimow, Dymitr: see Zulyadaini, see Porkhomovsky
Kaploun, Mark: see Suyetina
Leger, Rudolf: see Andreas; see Baldi
Löhr, Doris: title to be announced
Porkhomovsky, Victor (& Ibriszimow, Sheshin): title to be announced
Roberts, Jim: “Palatalization and Labialization in Eastern Chadic verbs”
Rothmaler, Eva
Ruff, Joy: “Tone in Lagwan Verbs: The Conflict between Perceptual Prominence and Lexical Contrast”
Schumann, Theda: title to be announced
Seibert, Uwe: “Weblogs, Podcasts, Wikis etc. – what the Web 2.0 has to offer for (Chadic) Linguists”
Sheshin, Valery: see Porkhomovsky
Stolbova, Olga: “Plural in Kirfi and in Chadic”
Suyetina, Yuliya (& Kaploun): “Once Again About Lexical Function of Tones in Hausa“
Tourneux, Henry: “La proposition relative dans les langues dites ’kotoko’ “
Wolff, Ekkehard: title to be announced
Ziegelmeyer, Georg: “Between Hausa and Kanuri: On the Linguistic Influence of Hausa and Kanuri on Bade and Ngizim“
Zoch, Ulrike: see Andreas
Zulyadaini, Balarabe (& Ibriszimow): title to be announced