Aktuelles und Veranstaltungen
14. & 15. November 2014
- Workshop: BantuSynPhonIS: Preverbal Domains
The verb in the preverbal domain across Bantu: Infinitive “fronting” and predicate-centered focus
Handout (PDF)
Programm
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Schützenstr. 18, Berlin
18. November 2014, 16:15 Uhr
- Vortrag: :
Information structure in Gamo
Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2. Dezember 2014, 16:15 Uhr
- Vortrag: :
Predicate-centered focus types in Khoekhoegowab
Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
9. Dezember 2014, 16:15 Uhr
- Vortrag: :
Predicate-centered focus in Sara-Bagirmi: Diachronic perspective
Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
16. Dezember 2014, 16:15 Uhr
- Vortrag: :
Information structure in Pular: Final results
Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Vergangene Veranstaltungen
3. Oktober 2014
- Workshop: Information structure in Africa
Maximal backgrounding = focus without focus encoding
Predicate-centered focus encoding in 'as soon as' clauses
Handout (PDF)
The expression of intensification and its relation to predicate-centered focus
Handout (PDF)
Focus and verb conjugation: The perfective in Fula and Serer
Kyoto University
26. September 2014
- Vortrag: :
The expression of intensification and its relation to predicate-centered focus
Handout (PDF)
8. Juli 2014
- Vortrag: :
Dialect diversity in south-eastern Ju varieties: A documentation of ǂKx'ao-ǁ'ae
25. Juni 2014
- Workshop:
Information structure in Egyptian across time
Information structure in Earlier Egyptian
Handout (PDF)
Verb focus in Coptic: A synchronic lay of the land and a diachronic puzzle
Handout (PDF)
Thetic utterances in Bohairic Coptic
Handout (PDF)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
24. Juni 2014
- Vortrag: :
Information structure of Ful: Analysis of a conversation
Handout (PDF)
17. Juni 2014
- Vortrag: :
Predicate-centered focus types in Khoekhoegowab: A morphosyntactic analysis
Handout (PDF)
3. Juni 2014
- Vortrag: :
Predicate-centered focus in Sara-Bagirmi: Verbal iteration and semantic evaluative categories
Handout (PDF)
6. Mai 2014
- Vortrag: :
A grammatical description of Ts'ixa (Kalahari Khoe): Clause linkage
Handout (PDF)
29. März 2014
- Vortrag:
Head marking and theticity in African languages
Workshop on Information Structure in Head-Marking Languages - Vortrag:
Focus marking in Kikuyu
Handout (PDF)
International workshop on Bantu languages - Vortrag: :
Focus in Sara-Bagirmi: Progressive and/or predicate-centered focus? A corpus study in Kenga
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Features of a Sesfontein dialect of Khoekhoegowab
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag:
Dialect diversity in south-eastern Ju varieties: A documentation of ǂKx'ao-ǁ'ae - Workshop:
Information structure in Bantu languages
Grammatical coding of predicate-centered focus types in Bantu
Handout (PDF)
The relation between predicate-operator focus and theticity
Handout (PDF)- &
Verb fronting in Bantu in typological perspective
Handout (PDF) - & , Universiteit Gent
Fronted infinitives in Kikongo
Handout (PDF) - , & , Universiteit Gent
Double/triple negation in Kikongo
Handout (PDF) - & , Universiteit Gent
The conjoint/disjoint distinction in Kirundi
- Vortrag: :
Information structure in Gamo: Topics in Gamo
- Vortrag: :
Information structure in Fulfulde: Fula dialects
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
A grammatical description of Ts'ixa (Kalahari Khoe): Grammatical relations
Handout (PDF) - Poster: :
Zwischen Perfekt und Operatorfokus: Die Verwendung des Markierers ga/ka im Sara-Bagirmi
Poster (PDF) Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Internal reconstruction in Hausa - Vortrag: :
Event-central and entity-central subtypes of thetic utterances and their relation to focus constructions
Handout (PDF) - Theme session:
Predicate-centered focus from a cross-linguistic perspective
- Organisation: &
'Do'-periphrasis as a cross-linguistic predicate focus strategy
Handout (PDF)- &
Predicate focus and realis mood in Tundra Yukaghir and beyond
Handout (PDF)
Predicate-centered focus, epistemicity and assertion in Secoya
Handout (PDF)
Verb apocope as a marker of predicate backgrounding in Yulu (Central Sudanic, Chad/Sudan)
Handout (PDF)- Workshop:
Information structure in spoken language corpora
- &
The risk of analysis without spoken language corpora: clause-second elements in languages of the Kalahari Basin with particular reference to Richtersveld Nama and Nǁng
Studying information structure in Ama (Nilo-Saharan, Sudan): Experience with natural discourse data
Handout (PDF)- Vortrag: :
The structure of yes/no questions in Ama
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Doubled verbs: Principles of distribution in Sara-Bagirmi
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Questions in Ama
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Information structure in Fulfulde: Theticity
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
The polyfunctional morphemes gà and kà. PFC marking in Sara-Bagirmi
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Doubled verbs. Focus marking in Sara-Bagirmi
Handout (PDF) - Workshop
with members of research group "Mise en relief et mise en retrait : le marquage morphologique de la hiérarchie discursive"
Maximal backgrounding = focus without focalization
Handout (PDF)
Focusing complex predicates
Handout (PDF)
Focus and background. A comparative view on information structure in Sara
Handout (PDF)
Focus marking in locational clauses and progressive constructions in Koyraboro Senni
Handout (PDF)
Focalization in Fulfulde of Fuuta Jaloo (Guinea)
Handout (PDF)- Poster: :
Prädikatszentrierte Fokustypen im Fulfulde
Poster (PDF) Handout (PDF) - Poster: :
Markierer, Hintergrund und Verdopplung: Fokusrealisierung im Sara-Bagirmi
Poster (PDF) Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Gender systems variability across Fulfulde dialects: Arguments for a long time isolation of the Guinean variety
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Focusing complex predicates
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Information structure in Gamo: The grammaticalization of ‘copula’ elements in Ometo - Vortrag: :
Topic in Fulfulde
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: & :
State-of-affairs focus in complex predicate structures
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Termfokus in Fulfulde
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: :
Focus and word order in Gamo - Workshop
with members of research group "Syntax, Typology, and Information Structure"
Switch reference production in Whitesands
State-of-affairs focus in complex predicate structures
(Preposed) verb doubling and predicate-centered focus
Negative tag questions as focus markers in Even
"Subjects" in focus: Grammatical relations in subject-focus constructions in Dogon languages
Definiteness in Lakhota
- Vortrag: :
Information structure in Gamo: Focus in Gamo - Vortrag: :
Information structure in Fulfulde
Handout (PDF) - Vortrag: & :
A morphological analyzer for Wolof using finite-state techniques
- Vortrag: :
Complex predicates in Ama
- Vortrag: :
Western Dogon as a Genetic Unit
- Workshop:
Genealogical and areal linguistic relations in the Kalahari Basin
Organisation: - Vortrag: :
The Lower Nossob varieties of Tuu: ǃUi, Taa or neither?
- Vortrag: :
Grammatical relations and informations structure in Dogon languages - Poster: :
The nature of complex predicates in Ama
- Vortrag: :
Complex predicates in Ama
- Workshop: SFB 632 Teilprojekt B7
- , LLACAN Paris
The apocopated verb forms of Yulu (Central Sudanic)
and related situations in some African languages
Handout (PDF) - , Aarhus University
Focus in Surkum
Handout (PDF) - , James Cook University, Cairns
On non-prosodic predicate-centered focus strategies
Handout (PDF)
(Preposed) verb doubling and predicate-centered focus
Handout (PDF)
Kanuri
Handout (PDF)
Mombo
Handout (PDF)
Predicate-centered focus in Mbay
Predicate-centered focus in Ma'di
- Vortrag: :
The structure of the predicate in Ama - Vortrag: & :
Expression of predicate-centered focus in Bantu - Vortrag: :
Focus particles in Bambara
- Workshop: SFB 632 Teilprojekt B7
Elicitation methods
The conjoint/disjoint dichotomy in Bantu languages- &
Predicate-centered focus in Mombo
Focus in Songhai languages
Programm (PDF)
MPI Nijmegen
1. März 2014
SOAS University of London
11. Februar 2014
14. Januar 2014
7. Januar 2014
10. & 11. Dezember 2013
3. Dezember 2013
19. November 2013
22. Oktober 2013
11. Oktober 2013
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
16. September 2013
28.-31. August 2013
SOAS University of London
16. August 2013
MPI Leipzig
10.-12. Juni 2013
22.-24. Mai 2013
14. Mai 2013
7. Mai 2013
16. April 2013
22. Januar 2013
19. & 20. Oktober 2012
8. Oktober 2012
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
3.-29. September 2012
Feldforschung: , Khartoum (Sudan)
27.-29. August 2012
20.-24. August 2012
Buea (Kamerun)
26. Juni 2012
12. Juni 2012
7. & 8. Juni 2012
29. Mai - 2. Juni 2012
31. Mai 2012
24. Januar 2012
17. Januar 2012
11. November 2011
2.-4. September 2011
29.-31. August 2011
25.-30. Juli 2011
21.-24. Juli 2011
The University of Hong Kong
19. April 2011
21. & 22. November 2010
Programm (PDF)
23.-25. August 2010
8.-10. Juli 2010
Vortrag: :
Preposed verb-doubling and predicate-centered focus
Handout (PDF)
SFB 632 Informationsstruktur: International conference 2010, Universität Potsdam
8.-10. April 2010
Vortrag: :
Attributive possession and the alienability split in Gbe
19. Afrikanistentag, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2.-31. März 2010
Feldforschung: , Kairo
23. Februar 2010
15. Dezember 2009
Gastvortrag: :
Focus in Fang and other Bantu A70 languages
Handout (PDF)
8. Dezember 2009
Gastvortrag: :
Subject clitics in Sheko (Omotic) – the link between syntax and information structure
Handout (PDF)