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

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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)

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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.

New Publication: Topics in Chadic Linguistics X

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

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: Continue reading “Future of BICCL and the related publication series”

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

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).

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

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).

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