BICCL 9 – Call for Papers

The “Permanent  Committee  of  the  International  Colloquium  on  the  Chadic  Languages” is pleased to invite you to the 9th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) which will take place in Villejuif, France  in 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.

Registration for the Villejuif meeting should contain:

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

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

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

Deadline for submitting title and abstract: May 31, 2017.
Further details will be found in a second circular.

Feel free to share this information with interested colleagues and students.

The “Permanent Committee of the International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages” is presently represented by Dymitr Ibriszimow (Lehrstuhl Afrikanistik II, University of Bayreuth), Henry Tourneux (LLACAN – CNRS / INALCO – Villejuif and IRAD Maroua, Cameroon), and Ekkehard Wolff (Professor & Chair emeritus African Linguistics, University of Leipzig, Institut für Afrikanistik).

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BICCL 2016 – Programme

The “Permanent  Committee  of  the  International  Colloquium  on  the  Chadic  Languages” has just sent out the programme of the Eight Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (8th BICCL) to be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on 4th and 5th February 2016.

Download: Programme

2nd Symposium on West African Languages: Announcement and Call for Papers

The Department of African Studies/University of Vienna is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2^nd Symposium on West African Languages. The conference will take place from 27 till 29 October, 2016 in Vienna. Papers on West African languages from all sub-disciplines of linguistics are welcome.

For more details see the attachment: SyWAL2016 Announcement and Call for papers

BICCL – 2nd cicular

The “Permanent  Committee  of  the  International  Colloquium  on  the  Chadic  Languages” has just sent out the 2nd circular to the Eight Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (8th BICCL) to be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on 4th, 5th and 6th February 2016, from Thursday morning through Saturday afternoon.

In this circular you find information on how to reach Bayreuth and where to stay, as well as the names of the participants and the tentative titles of their papers.

You will find a detailed programme of the 8th BICCL in a third circular which will be sent by mid-January 2016.

Download: 8th BICCL_2nd circular

BICCL 8 – Call for Papers

The “Permanent  Committee  of  the  International  Colloquium  on  the  Chadic  Languages” is pleased to invite you to the 8th BICCL to be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on 4th, 5th and 6th February 2016, from Thursday morning through Saturday afternoon.

Please register by e-mail to:
Dymitr.Ibriszimow@uni-bayreuth.de
with a copy to Remi.Tchokothe@uni-bayreuth.de
Subject: 8th BICCL

Registrations should contain:
NAME
PLACE and/or PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
E-MAIL ADDRESS
TITLE OF PAPER

Deadline for registration: 31st March 2015.

Further details will be found in a second circular.

Feel free to share this information with interested colleagues and students.

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).

Programme of the 7th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL)

The 7th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) is about to start. It will take place this week (September 12-14, 2013) and will be hosted at the Asien-Afrika-Institut (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany.

Have a look at the programme (PDF file).

BICCL 7 — Call for Papers

The Permanent  Committee  of  the  International  Colloquium  on  the  Chadic  Languages* is pleased to announce that the 7th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) will be hosted at the Asien-Afrika-Institut (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany from September 12 to September 14, 2013.

Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics

Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (Grafik: Koeppe-Verlag)

The Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009 have just appeared at Koeppe-Verlag (Cologne) in the series “World Congress of African Linguistics“. The volume has about 650 pages and costs € 98,00.

A few of the articles deal with topics related to Chadic and Afroasiatic research, e.g.

Zygmunt Frajzyngier:
Coding relations between the verb and noun phrases in Afroasiatic – A sketch of typological explanations

Richard Gravina:
Vowels, consonants and prosody in two Central Chadic languages

Check what else is in the book

WOCAL7 in Buea

The 7th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) will will be held from the 20th to the 24th of August 2012 at the University of Buea, South West Region, Cameroon. An updated programme of the congress has just been sent to the participants by the organizers. A number of papers will deal with Chadic and other Afroasiatic languages. I won’t list them here, please find out for yourself in this document (PDF file, 1,3 MB).

BICCL 6 — Poster and Programme

The 6th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) will be hosted at the LLACAN (Langage, langues et cultures d’Afrique noire, UMR 8135 INALCO-CNRS) at Villejuif (near Paris) from September 22 to September 23, 2011. Here is a Poster and the Programme: