4th BICCL: Programme

3^rd CIRCULAR

Fourth Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages

30th – 31st October 2007, at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

Programme

Monday, 29^th October: Arrival of the participants

from 19:00: informal meeting in “Schinner Braustuben”, Richard-Wagner-Str. 38

	Tuesday, 30th October	Iwalewa House, Münzgasse 9
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome address
9:15 – 9:55	Wolff, Ekkehard	Another look at ‘internal a’ plurals in Chadic
9:55 – 10:35	Takacs, Gabor	Chadic roots with *l- and *n-: Addenda et Corrigenda
10:35 – 11:15	Schumann, Theda	Komparatives zur Nominalmorphologie
11:15 – 11:40	Coffee break
11:40 – 12:20	Ibriszimow, Dymitr, Victor Porkhomovsky & Valery Sheshin	AAKTS database and KinShIP computer programme for processing Afroasiatic kinship terms and systems
12:20 – 13:00	Seibert, Uwe	Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis etc. – what the Web 2.0 has to offer for (Chadic) Linguists
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 15:10	Andreas, Heike, Rudolf Leger & Ulrike Zoch	The Nyam language – first steps towards its research and description
15:10 – 15:50	Blench, Roger	An introduction to Fali of Kirya
15:50 – 16:20	Coffee break
16:20 – 17:00	Roberts, Jim	Palatalization and Labialization in Eastern Chadic verbs
17:00 – 17:40	Batic, Gian Claudio	Imaginative Dimension and Experiential Constructions in Hausa and Bole
17:40 – 18:20	Stolbova, Olga	Plural in Kirfi and in Chadic
	Wednesday, 31st October
9:00 – 9:40	Ziegelmeyer, Georg	Between Hausa and Kanuri: On the Linguistic Influence of Hausa and Kanuri on Bade and Ngizim
9:40 – 10:20	Awagana, Ari, Doris Löhr & Ekkehard Wolff	Loanwords in Hausa – results from the Loanword Typology Project
10:20 – 11:00	Baldi, Sergio & Rudolf Leger	The yi + noun verbs and their positioning in Hausa
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:10	Mai Bello, Baba	Hausa Language and the Perception of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
12:10 – 12:50	Zulyadaini, Balarabe & Dymitr Ibriszimow	I think what you think. An evaluation of L1 and L2 Hausa cognitive structures
12:50 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 15:10	Allison, Sean	Lexical tone in Makary Kotoko
15:10 – 15:50	Ruff, Joy	Tone in Lagwan Verbs: The Conflict between Perceptual Prominence and Lexical Contrast
15:50 – 16:20	Coffee break
16:20 – 17:00	Blazek, Vaclav	On application of glottochronology for Masa or Kotoko group
17:00 – 17:40	Tourneux, Henry	La proposition relative dans les langues dites “kotoko”
17:40 – 18:00	Closing remarks

We still hope that Mustapha Ahmad from Kano will be able to attend the Colloquium.

For all participants who will be in Bayreuth for the first time:

• The closest airport is in Nuremberg.

• If you do not have a direct flight to Nuremberg, you may pass via Munich or Frankfurt/Main.

• You may take a train also from Munich or Frankfurt; it will pass almost always via Nuremberg.

• From Nuremberg airport you have to take the U-Bahn (= metro, underground, subway; there is only one line going from the airport) to Nuremberg main train station (Hauptbahnhof). The U-Bahn ticket costs 1.80 euro.

• From Nuremberg main train station there is a train to Bayreuth every hour. A one way ticket costs 15.60 euro. If you do not travel alone, you may buy a Bayern-Ticket which costs 27 euro at the vending machines and is valid for a group of up to five persons (not on Monday before 9 a.m.). You will arrive at Bayreuth main station.

With best regards,

Dymitr Ibriszimow

The “Permanent Committee of the International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages” is presently represented by D. Ibriszimow (Lehrstuhl Afrikanistik II, University of Bayreuth), H. Tourneux (LLACAN – CNRS / INALCO – Villejuif / Paris and IRD Maroua, Cameroun), and E. Wolff (Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Leipzig).