Early invitation for CALL workshop presentations

Joseph Lovestrand has sent the following message:

An online workshop on the theme “Words in Chadic languages: Phonology and morphosyntax” is being organized for August 29, 2022 in conjunction with the Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022.

Anyone who would like to contribute a presentation can express interest by emailing Joseph Lovestrand: jl119@soas.ac.uk

Planned participants include:

Théodore Bebey (University of Maroua)
Adam Mahmat (University of Maroua)
Hamidou Bappa (University of Maroua)
Ousmanou (University of Yaounde 1)
Mélanie Viljoen (SIL)
Joseph Lovestrand (SOAS University of London)
Ndokobai Dadak (SIL)
H. Ekkehard Wolff (Leipzig University)
Shannon Yee (SIL)
Sakine Ramat (FAPLN)

Words in Chadic languages: phonology and morphosyntax

Chadic languages have long been of interest to phonologists, in particular in regard to word prosodies: cases of vowel and consonant harmony in which phonological features are spread across an entire word (Lionnet & Hyman 2018: 633–646; Wolff 2021: 55–61). The most extreme cases of word prosodies are found in Central Chadic languages, while less extreme examples of phonological feature sharing are common throughout the language family (Pearce & Lovestrand forthcoming). Chadic languages also tend to have complex morphology, in particular in the verbal system where pronominal markers and other verbal morphemes (often called “extensions”) may have ambiguous status in regard to whether they are part of the verb (i.e., suffixes) or not (i.e., particles) (Jungraithmayr & Tourneux 1987). Since Chadic languages have both complex morphology and phonological processes that extend across a domain associated with wordhood, they are likely to exhibit patterns of conflicting criteria for wordhood of the type that has raised questions about the theoretical validity of wordhood and the morphology-syntax divide more generally (Tallman 2020). Of particular interest are cases where the domain of prosody or harmony does not match morphosyntactic criteria for wordhood, however, presentations on aspects of the phonology or morphology of Chadic languages will also be included in the workshop.

• Jungraithmayr, Herrmann & Henry Tourneux (eds.). 1987. Etudes tchadiques, Classes et extensions verbales. Paris: Geuthner.
• Lionnet, Florian & Larry M Hyman. 2018. Current issues in African phonology. In Tom Güldemann (ed.), The languages and linguistics of Africa, 602–708. De Gruyter Mouton.
• Pearce, Mary & Joseph Lovestrand. forthcoming. Vowel harmony in Chadic languages. In Harry van der Hulst & Nancy Ritter (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony. Oxford University Press.
• Tallman, Adam J. R. 2020. Beyond grammatical and phonological words. Language and Linguistics Compass 14(2).
• Wolff, H. Ekkehard. 2021. Historical phonology of Central Chadic: Prosodies and lexical reconstruction. Cambridge Univ Press.

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4th Symposium on West African Languages (SyWAL2022)

The 4th Symposium on West African Languages (SyWAL 2022) is scheduled to take place 21-23 September 2022 on the premises of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. It targets all aspects of studies on African languages spoken in West Africa and West African languages used elsewhere.

Deadlines:

Call for papers: 15 March 2022
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11th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) – CALL FOR PAPERS

The following invitation / call for papers has been distributed via a new BICCL Google group (biccl@googlegroups.com).

11th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL)
11-12 November 2022, at Universität Wien, Austria 

CALL FOR PAPERS

(Version française ci-dessous)

Registration and abstract submission till: 30 June 2022

Notification of acceptance till: 31 July 2022

Dear colleagues,

after an intermission in 2021 due to the ‘Corona-Pandemic’ we will restart with the next BICCL meeting at the Department of African Studies (University of Vienna), 11-12 November 2022. 

The colloquium will be held in presence; however, colleagues who cannot come to Vienna due to travel restriction can be given the opportunity to present their talk via video conferencing.

Note that you have to fulfil the valid entry regulations for Austria. Currently (27th December 2021) to enter Austria, the so called “2-G” rule (proof of vaccination/recovery) is in place. In addition, you need a negative PCR test or proof of booster jab.

We invite all Chadic scholars to hand in their papers covering the following topics:

– Descriptive linguistics of individual Chadic languages
– Comparative linguistics of Chadic languages
– Typology of Chadic languages
– Hausa linguistics
– The position of Chadic within Afroasiatic
– Contact between Chadic and non-Chadic languages
– Oral literature in Chadic languages

Abstracts should be written in English, French, or German, and not exceed 500 words (excluding references). Talks will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation with a 10 minute question and answer period. There will be a conference fee of 50€ (including conference dinner).

Registrations and abstracts are to be submitted electronically in pdf and word format to the following email address with subject “BICCL 2022”: georg.ziegelmeyer@univie.ac.at

Registration for the meeting should also contain the following information: name and affiliation; planned date of arrival (suggested Thursday, 10th November), and departure (suggested Sunday, 13th of November).

Details concerning participants, program, accommodation and organizational matters will be communicated in further circulars.

We are looking forward to see you!

The organizers (Yvonne Treis, Henning Schreiber, Georg Ziegelmeyer)

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11e Colloque International Bisannuel sur les Langues Tchadiques (BICCL 11)

11-12 novembre 2022
Universität Wien, Autriche

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

Date limite pour la soumission des résumés : 30 juin 2022

Envoi de la notification d’acceptation : 31 juillet 2022

Chères et chers collègues,

Après l’annulation du colloque en raison de la pandémie en 2021, nous prévoyons d’organiser le prochain rencontre BICCL au Département d’études africaines de l’université de Vienne les 11-12 novembre 2022. 

Le colloque aura lieu en présentiel, mais les collègues qui ne peuvent pas venir à Vienne en raison de restrictions de voyage auront la possibilité de présenter à distance par visioconférence. Merci de prendre note des mesures sanitaires en vigueur sur le territoire autrichien. Actuellement (27 décembre 2021), la règle dite “2-G” est appliquée lors de l’entrée en Autriche : vous devez donc présenter une preuve de vaccination complète ou un certificat de rétablissement du Covid. De plus, vous êtes tenu de présenter un test PCR négatif ou une preuve de vaccination de rappel.

Nous invitons tous les chercheurs travaillant sur les langues tchadiques à soumettre leur résumé sur les sujets suivants :

– Description linguistique des différentes langues tchadiques
– Linguistique comparative/diachronique des langues tchadiques
– Typologie des langues tchadiques
– Linguistique haoussa
– Position de la branche tchadique au sein du phylum Afroasiatique
– Contact entre les langues tchadiques et non-tchadiques
– Littérature orale en langues tchadiques

 Les résumés doivent être rédigés en anglais, français ou allemand et ne pas dépasser 500 mots (références exclues). Les intervenants disposeront de 20 minutes pour leur présentation et suivies de 10 minutes de questions et discussion.

Les résumés doivent être soumis en format pdf et word à l’adresse mail suivante georg.ziegelmeyer@univie.ac.at (merci de mettre « BICCL 2022 » dans le sujet).

Veuillez également nous envoyer les informations suivantes : 

–   nom, affiliation et adresse
–   date d’arrivée prévue (idéalement le jeudi 10 novembre)
–   date de départ prévue (suggérée le dimanche 13 novembre).

Les frais d’inscription sont de 50 € (y compris le dîner du colloque).

Tous les détails concernant les participants, le programme, l’hébergement et les questions d’organisation seront communiqués dans des circulaires ultérieures.

Nous nous réjouissons de vous accueillir à Vienne en novembre !

Les organisateurs (Yvonne Treis, Henning Schreiber, Georg Ziegelmeyer)

10th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL)

The 10th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL) is presently taking place online at Leiden University, June 7-12, 2021. The conference theme is African languages for sustainable societies and knowledge creation. The final programme and book of abstracts are available here.

Access to the online workshops, talks, and social events requires registration. After the conference, all presenters are encouraged to upload their pre-recorded presentations to the WOCAL 10 OSF Meeting, which makes the presentation openly accessible to the public.

BICCL 10 in Hamburg

The 10th ‘Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL)’ will take place 3-6 October 2019, at Universität Hamburg (AAI), Germany.

More about BICCL 10

The deadline for abstract submission was extended  to 1 May 2019. Notification of acceptance will be given by 31 May 2019.

Details concerning participants, program, accommodation and organizational matters will be communicated in further circulars.

Tous les détails concernant les participants, le programme, l’hébergement et les questions d’organisation seront communiqués dans d’autres circulaires.

La date limite pour la soumission des résumés prolongée est fixé au 1er mai 2019. La notification d’acceptation sera envoyée avant le 31 mai 2019.

NACAL 47: Call for Papers

The 47th annual meeting of the North Atlantic Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) will be held at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité – INALCO (Paris, France), from Monday, June 24 through Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Submissions are solicited.

Future of BICCL and the related publication series

The  ‘Permanent Committee’ for the Biennial Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) has issued the following announcement concerning the future handling of BICCL and the publication series Chadic Linguistics – Linguistique Tchadique – Tschadistik:

BICCL 2017 – Programme now online

The 9th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) will take place in Villejuif (France), September 7-8, 2017. This colloquium will be devoted to all aspects of Chadic languages and linguistics, in particular:

• Descriptive linguistics of individual Chadic languages
• Comparative linguistics of Chadic languages
• Typology of Chadic languages
• Hausa linguistics
• The position of Chadic within Afroasiatic
• Chadic languages in contact with non-Chadic languages
• Oral literature in Chadic languages.

The preliminary programme of the conference is now available here.

This Ninth Colloquium continues the series of Leipzig (2001 / 2009), Prague (2003), Villejuif/Paris (2005 / 2011), Bayreuth (2007 / 2014), Hamburg (2013), 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).

 

BICCL 2017 – 2nd Announcement

The 9th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) will take place in Villejuif (France), September 7-8, 2017. This Colloquium will be devoted to all aspects of Chadic languages and linguistics, in particular:

• Descriptive linguistics of individual Chadic languages
• Comparative linguistics of Chadic languages
• Typology of Chadic languages
• Hausa linguistics
• The position of Chadic within Afroasiatic
• Chadic languages in contact with non-Chadic languages
• Oral literature in Chadic languages.

Registrations should be addressed exclusively by e-mail to:
biccl_2017@orange.fr ; Subject : BICCL 2017

The following information is required for registration:

• Name and address (preferably e-mail AND snail mail)
• Professional affiliation
• Title of paper and abstract (1 page)

Deadline for submitting title and abstract: May 31, 2017.

The purpose of this second announcement is to allow you to search for funding, for LLACAN will not be able to provide any financial support for the participants.

A third one will be delivered in May, with accommodation and visa details.

There is also a web page at the following address: http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/biccl/

You may consult this web page to see the tables of contents of our previous BICCL meetings proceedings.

This Ninth Colloquium continues the series of Leipzig (2001 / 2009), Prague (2003), Villejuif/Paris (2005 / 2011), Bayreuth (2007 / 2014), Hamburg (2013), 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).

The “Permanent Committee of the International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages” is presently represented by:

• Dymitr Ibriszimow (Lehrstuhl Afrikanistik II, Bayreuth U.),
• Henry Tourneux (LLACAN – CNRS / INALCO – Villejuif and IRAD Maroua, Cameroon),
• Ekkehard Wolff (Professor & Chair emeritus African Linguistics, Leipzig U., Institut für Afrikanistik).

Local organizing committee:

• Henry Tourneux
• Yvonne Treis
• Jeanne Zerner

Next meetings of GLECS

The “Groupe Linguistique d’Études Chamito-Sémitiques” (GLECS) invites to its next meeting which will take place on Thursday, November 24th, 2016 at 5 p.m. at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales  (INALCO) in Paris. The next meetings will be on December 15th,  January 26th, February 23rd, March 30th, April 27th, May 18th and June 20th.

Réunion du G L E C S
(Groupe Linguistique d’Études Chamito-Sémitiques)
jeudi 24 novembre 2016, à 17 h 00

Salons de l’INALCO,
2 rue de Lille, Paris 7e, escalier C, 2e étage

1) Présentation d’ouvrages et informations diverses
2) Communication de Monsieur Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER :Reconstruction des relations entre prédicat verbal et syntagmes nominaux en Proto-tchadique

N.B. Si vous :- souhaitez faire une communication
– n’avez pas encore remis le texte d’une communication à paraître
– souhaitez acquitter votre cotisation 2016-2017 (25 €)

Vous pouvez le faire auprès de :
Jérôme Lentin. 9, rue des Trois frères Carasso. 13004 Marseille. Tél. 06 71 00 74 79
ou Antoine Lonnet. 8, rue de l’Abbé-de-l’Épée. 75005 Paris. Tél. 01 43 29 61 19

Dates des réunions de l’année 2016-2017:
15 Décembre 2016, 26 Janvier 2017, 23 Février 2017, 30 Mars 2017, 27 Avril 2017, 18 mai 2017, 29 Juin 2017.