Joseph Lovestrand has informed us that his dissertation on serial verb constructions in Barayin is now online: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:39406562-02d3-46f5-abf3-180d22225925
Again, we would like to remind and encourage other linguists working on Chadic languages to also send such information. Please help us keep up to date with what is going on in Chadic Linguistics by sending us information about your research, new publications, conferences etc. (Contact)
Topics in Chadic Linguistics X – Papers from the 9th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Villejuif, September 7-8, 2017, edited by Henry Tourneux and Yvonne Treis, has just appeared at Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
The following papers are contained:
Paul Newman:
Russell G. Schuh – An overview of his Chadic scholarship
Umma Aliyu Musa / Esther Morgenthal / Henning Schreiber:
Less commonly documented literacy practices – Secular Hausa Ajami as situated social literacy
Sergio Baldi / Rudolf Leger:
Animal names in Hausa and Kupto – Their specific characteristics mirrored in proverbs, epithets and sayings
Gian Claudio Batic:
Verb classes and TAM system in Kushi (Nigeria)
Roger Blench:
Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages
Philippe Cassuto / Victor Porkhomovsky:
Les stratégies de traduction de l’Ancien Testament dans les trois versions haoussa de la Bible – Un problème d’interprétation ?
Emma Kuipers:
Verb classification in Mogum (Eastern Chadic)
Joseph Lovestrand:
Ideophones in Barayin
Joseph McIntyre:
Patterns of organisation in the Hausa grade system
Nina Pawlak / Joseph McIntyre:
Semantic and pragmatic motivations of gender assignment in Hausa
James Roberts / Albert Camus Soulokadi:
On ideophones in Musey
Olga Stolbova:
Lexical links between Chadic, Cushitic and Omotic languages
Henry Tourneux:
Le syntagme nominal dans le parler « kotoko » de Kousseri
Melanie Viljoen:
Gavar verb morphology
Two articles on Barayin, an East Chadic language, have recently been published:
Also, Carsten Peust has published an article on Dangla, another East Chadic language :
I would like to remind and encourage other linguists working on Chadic languages to also send such information. Please help us keep up to date with what is going on in Chadic Linguistics by sending us information about your research, new publications, conferences etc. (Contact)
A recently completed Master’s thesis by Joseph Lovestrand, describing the basic linguistic structure of an East Chadic language, Baraïn (B3), is now available online: “The Linguistic Structure of Baraïn (Chadic)“.
Two related working papers are also available online from the same author: “Classification and description of the Chadic languages of the Guéra (East Chadic B)” and “The Dialects of Baraïn (East Chadic).“
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