Events

KBA CRP Meeting 6
EuroBabel Final Conference
KBA CRP Meeting 5
Methodology in Linguistic Prehistory
Kinship and Numeral Systems
20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
KBA CRP Meeting 3
Referential Hierarchy Effects on the Morphosyntax of Verbal Arguments
KBA CRP Meeting 2
KBA CRP Meeting 1
EuroBABEL Launch Conference



KBA CRP Meeting 6

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Aarhus, Denmark, 8 to 10 April 2013

Presentations included the following:

Berthold, Falko & Anne-Maria Fehn. "Methodological problems in the analysis of complex predicates in southern African Khoisan."

Boden, Gertrud. "Grandparent/grandchild and bifurcate merging equations - a contact perspective."

McGregor, William B. "Five unusual clause types in Shua."

McGregor, William B. & Anne-Maria Fehn. "On the genealogical position of Ts'ixa."

Nakagawa, Hirosi. "Proposal for a project of Khoisan Comparative Phonology."




EuroBabel Final Conference

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Leiden, the Netherlands, 23 to 26 August 2012 (Conference Programme)

Presentations included the following:

Boden, Gertrud. "'Khoisan' kinship classifications: Geographical distribution and historical interpretation."

Gerlach, Linda & Falko Berthold. "Contact influences on ǂHoan."

Güldemann, Tom. "Structural and semantic aspects of Tuu numerals."

McGregor, William B. "Methodology and best practices for community engagement and reciprocity of research - KBA report."

McGregor, William B. "Number words and number symbols in Shua."

McGregor, William B. "Shua spatial language and cognition."

Nakagawa, Hirosi. "Cross-Khoisan comparative phonology."

Ono, Hitomo. "Reconsidering the avoidance/joking dichotomy among Gǀui."

Pakendorf, Brigitte. "Genetic perspectives on 'Khoisan' preshistory."



KBA CRP Meeting 5

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Leipzig, Germany, 20 to 21 April 2012

Presentations included the following:

Barbieri, Chiara. "Genetic update on Khoisan project.”

Berthold, Falko & Linda Gerlach. "Movements of the ǂHoan people and shared vocabulary between ǂHoan and Gǀui.”

Boden, Gertrud. “Preliminary findings on variation in Kx'aa kinship terminologies and language contact New data from ǂHoan, ǂKx'au-ǁ'en and Northern !Xun language communities”

Nakagawa, Hirosi. “Place feature distribution in Khoisan lexical morphemes”






Methodology in Linguistic Prehistory

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Berlin, Germany, 15 to 16 October 2011

A joint workshop with the EuroBABEL Alor-Pantar project on “Methodology in linguistic prehistory” was held at the Department of African Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, 15 to 16 October 2011. The workshop took place thanks to funding from the European Science Foundation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the US National Science Foundation.


Participants and Titles of Presentations

With PDFs of PowerPoint presentations, handouts and written-up talks to download.

Author(s) Affiliation Title
Pierpaolo Di Carlo & Giovanna Pizziolo University at Buffalo Multidisciplinary research and GIS techniques in language history studies: from a project on the languages of Lower Fungom (NW Cameroon), plus supplementary material
Jean-Marie Hombert Université de Lyon & CNRS Linguistic implications of contacts between (agriculturalists) Bantu and Hunter-gatherers
Tim Denham & Mark Donohue Monash University & Australian National University Disconnecting Genes, Language, and Material Culture: Much Data and Many Histories
Robert Barnes University of Oxford Genetic and Linguistic Distribution across the Language Family Divide in Easter Indonesia and Timor L’este
Mark Stoneking Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Genetic prehistory of eastern Indonesia
Laura Robinson & Gary Holton University of Alaska Fairbanks Internal classification of Alor-Pantar using computational methods applied to the lexicon
Marian Klamer & Antoinette Schapper Universiteit Leiden On the History of Numerals and Numeral Systems in Alor-Pantar, plus additional handout
Patrick McConvell AIATSIS & Australian National University Lexical Contact Phenomena in Australian Linguistic Prehistory: Substrates and Wanderwörter
Peter Mitchell University of Oxford Triangles and Tripods: Co-ordinating Archaeology, Anthropology, Genetics and Linguistics in San Prehistory, plus written-up talk
Andrew B Smith University of Cape Town Problems in the concept of ‘Neolithic’ expansion in Southern Africa
Vanessa Hayes J. Craig Venter Institute Genomics – building a genetic map of the greater Southern African Kalahari region
Chiara Barbieri & Brigitte Pakendorf Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Integrating molecular data into the linguistic perspective on Khoisan prehistory
Alan Barnard University of Edinburgh The mutual interdependence of ethnology and linguistic prehistory (in the Kalahari Basin), plus additional handout
Tom Güldemann & Robyn Loughnane Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The problem of linguistic inheritance and contact in the Kalahari Basin: the case of body parts, plus additional handout





Kinship and Numeral Systems from Cross-Linguistics and Cross-Modal Perspectives

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Preston, United Kingdom, 15 to 16 September 2011

A workshop organized by the EuroBABEL Endangered Sign Languages in Village Communities project; see the workshop website for details. Presentations included the following:

Boden, Gertrud. Variation and change in Taa kinship terminologies: Methodological approaches and diachronic interpretations

McGregor, Bill. Numerals and number concepts in Shua (Khoe-Kwadi)

McGregor, Bill. Kinship terminology in Shua (Khoe-Kwadi)






20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics & KBA CRP Meeting 4

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Osaka, Japan, 25 to 30 July 2011

KBA project members will participate in the workshop "Genealogical and Areal Linguistic Relations in The Kalahari Basin" as part of the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX), 25 to 30 July in Osaka, Japan.


Abstract

Since January 2010 researchers from six projects from five different countries have joined forces to untangle the historical relations among the Non-Bantu linguistic populations in southern Africa within the cross-disciplinary EUROBABEL project “The Kalahari Basin area: a ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction”. While the relevant language groups are conventionally subsumed under the unsubstantiated concept of a “Khoisan” language family there is alternative evidence that they share certain traits because of convergence processes within a geographical area called “Kalahari Basin”. Deciding between the two alternative historical hypotheses is the major problem which the collaborative research project network has set out to address. The workshop at ICHL attempts to disseminate first results of the project network and invites other scholars also working in this area to present their research pertinent to the above historical problem. The workshop thus addresses one of the major current issues in historical linguistics, namely of disentangling genealogical and areal linguistic relationships.


Participants and Titles of Presentations

With PDFs of PowerPoint presentations, handouts and written-up talks to download.

Author(s) Affiliation Title
Brigitte Pakendorf MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig Genes and languages in southern Africa: a molecular anthropological perspective on the Kalahari Basin Area
Fiona Jordan and Gertrud Boden MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen and University of Edinburgh Kalahari Basin Area sibling terminologies in historic perspective: A preliminary computational approach
Hitomi Ono Reitaku University Sharing an anomalous pattern across a linguistic boundary: the kinship categorization of Gǀui, Gǁana, Tshila and ǂHoan
Gertrud Boden University of Edinburgh Tuu kinship terminologies in diachronic perspective
Tom Güldemann Humboldt University Berlin, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig The Lower Nossob varieties of Tuu: ǃUi, Taa or neither?
Christfried Naumann Humboldt University Berlin, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig A preliminary classification of Taa dialects
Florian Lionnet University of California Berkeley Juu demonstrative and relative constructions in a diachronic perspective
Linda Gerlach and Falko Berthold MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig Spatial terms in ǂHoan
Bonny Sands and Henry Honken Northern Arizona University ǂHoan body part terminology in comparative perspective
Edward Elderkin Cape Town Inherited and borrowed lexis in Khoe
Hirosi Nakagawa Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Genetic affiliations of ǂHaba and Tshila
Wilfried Haacke University of Namibia at Windhoek The occurrence of incorporation in Khoe languages: convergence or divergence?
Christian Rapold Leiden University A Tuu substrate in Khoekhoe? The case of compound verbs., plus maps





KBA CRP Meeting 3

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Somlószőlős, Hungary, 7 to 9 January 2011

Presentations included the following:

Güldemann, Tom. “Perception Verbs in Nǁng (ǃUi, Tuu) and Beyond”

Güldemann, Tom and Christfried Naumann. “The Internal Classification of Taa.”

Kure, Blesswell & William McGregor. “Preliminary Remarks on the Shua NP.”






Referential Hierarchy Effects on the Morphosyntax of Verbal Arguments

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Leipzig, Germany, 27 to 29 August 2010

A workshop organized by the EuroBABEL RHIM project; see the workshop website for details. Presentations included the following:

Güldemann, Tom. “Information Structure and Grammatical Core Relations in Benue-Congo.”






KBA CRP Meeting 2

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Leipzig, Germany, 11 to 12 July 2010

Presentations included the following:

Boden, Gertrud. “Variation and Change in Taa Kin Terminologies.”






KBA CRP Meeting 1

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Leipzig, Germany, 15 January 2010






EuroBABEL Launch Conference

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Berlin, Germany, 11 to 13 September 2009

The EuroBABEL Launch Conference was held in Berlin, 11 to 13 September, 2009.