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The 4th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages will take place 30th-31st October 2007, at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Here is a list of participants and their respective papers:

Ahmad, Mustapha: “Hausa in the digital age: Challenges and opportunities”
Allison, Sean: “Lexical tone in Makary Kotoko“
Andreas, Heike (& Leger, Zoch): “The Nyam language – first steps towards its research and description”
Baba, Ahmad Tela (title to be announced)
Baldi, Sergio (& Leger): “The yi + noun verbs and their positioning in Hausa“
Batic, Gian Claudio: “Imaginative Dimension and Experiential Constructions in Hausa and Bole“
Blazek, Vaclav: “All Chadic lakes/ On application of glottochronology for Masa or Kotoko group”
Blench, Roger: “An introduction to Fali of Kirya”
Gravina, Richard: “Indirect Object Pronouns and Agreement in Mbuko“
Holubova, Miroslava
Ibriszimow, Dymitr: see Zulyadaini, see Porkhomovsky
Kaploun, Mark: see Suyetina
Leger, Rudolf: see Andreas; see Baldi
Löhr, Doris: title to be announced
Porkhomovsky, Victor (& Ibriszimow, Sheshin): title to be announced
Roberts, Jim: “Palatalization and Labialization in Eastern Chadic verbs”
Rothmaler, Eva
Ruff, Joy: “Tone in Lagwan Verbs: The Conflict between Perceptual Prominence and Lexical Contrast”
Schumann, Theda: title to be announced
Seibert, Uwe: “Weblogs, Podcasts, Wikis etc. – what the Web 2.0 has to offer for (Chadic) Linguists”
Sheshin, Valery: see Porkhomovsky
Stolbova, Olga: “Plural in Kirfi and in Chadic”
Suyetina, Yuliya (& Kaploun): “Once Again About Lexical Function of Tones in Hausa“
Tourneux, Henry: “La proposition relative dans les langues dites ’kotoko’ “
Wolff, Ekkehard: title to be announced
Ziegelmeyer, Georg: “Between Hausa and Kanuri: On the Linguistic Influence of Hausa and Kanuri on Bade and Ngizim“
Zoch, Ulrike: see Andreas
Zulyadaini, Balarabe (& Ibriszimow): title to be announced

Further details can be found in the second circular, which can be downloaded here:

bichadic-colloquium-2007_2nd-circular.pdf (12 KB)

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ANNOUNCEMENT – CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourth Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages

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

This Colloquium takes place after those of Leipzig (2001), Prague (2003), and Villejuif (2005), 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). It is devoted to all aspects of Chadic 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

Registration for the Bayreuth meeting should contain:

name and address (preferably e-mail AND snail mail),
title of paper and abstract (1 page),
planned dates of arrival (suggested: Monday, 29th October) and departure (suggested: Thursday, 1st November),
indication of preferred accommodation (single/double; hotel category or price).

Registrations should be addressed exclusively by e-mail to:

Dymitr Ibriszimow
Subject : BICCL 2007
mailto: Dymitr.Ibriszimow@uni-bayreuth.de
Tel. 0049-922-553581

Deadline for submitting title and abstract: June 30, 2007.

Further details will be found in a second circular.

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).