News and events
November 14 & 15, 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
November 18, 2014, 16:15
- Talk: :
Information structure in Gamo
Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
December 2, 2014, 16:15
- Talk: :
Predicate-centered focus types in Khoekhoegowab
Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
December 9, 2014, 16:15
- Talk: :
Predicate-centered focus in Sara-Bagirmi: Diachronic perspective
Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
December 16, 2014, 16:15
- Talk: :
Information structure in Pular: Final results
Invalidenstr. 118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Past events
October 3, 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
September 26, 2014
- Talk: :
The expression of intensification and its relation to predicate-centered focus
Handout (PDF)
July 8, 2014
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Dialect diversity in south-eastern Ju varieties: A documentation of ǂKx'ao-ǁ'ae
June 25, 2014
- Workshop:
Information structure in Egyptian across time
Information structure in Earlier Egyptian
Verb focus in Coptic: A synchronic lay of the land and a diachronic puzzle
Thetic utterances in Bohairic Coptic
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
June 24, 2014
- Talk: :
Information structure of Ful: Analysis of a conversation
Handout (PDF)
June 17, 2014
- Talk: :
Predicate-centered focus types in Khoekhoegowab: A morphosyntactic analysis
Handout (PDF)
June 3, 2014
- Talk: :
Predicate-centered focus in Sara-Bagirmi: Verbal iteration and semantic evaluative categories
Handout (PDF)
May 6, 2014
- Talk: :
A grammatical description of Ts'ixa (Kalahari Khoe): Clause linkage
Handout (PDF)
March 29, 2014
- Talk:
Head marking and theticity in African languages
Workshop on Information Structure in Head-Marking Languages - Talk:
Focus marking in Kikuyu
Handout (PDF)
International workshop on Bantu languages - Talk:
Focus in Sara-Bagirmi: Progressive and/or predicate-centered focus? A corpus study in Kenga
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
Features of a Sesfontein dialect of Khoekhoegowab
Handout (PDF) - Talk:
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
- Talk:
Information structure in Gamo: Topics in Gamo
- Talk:
Information structure in Fulfulde: Fula dialects
Handout (PDF) - Talk:
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) - Talk: :
Internal reconstruction in Hausa - Talk: :
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
- Organization: &
'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
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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)- Talk: :
The structure of yes/no questions in Ama
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
Doubled verbs: Principles of distribution in Sara-Bagirmi
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
Questions in Ama
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
Information structure in Fulfulde: Theticity
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
The polyfunctional morphemes gà and kà. PFC marking in Sara-Bagirmi
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
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) - Talk: :
Gender systems variability across Fulfulde dialects. Arguments for a long time isolation of the Guinean variety
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
Focusing complex predicates
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
Information structure in Gamo: The grammaticalization of ‘copula’ elements in Ometo - Talk: :
Topic in Fulfulde
Handout (PDF) - Talk: & :
State-of-affairs focus in complex predicate structures
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
Termfokus in Fulfulde
Handout (PDF) - Talk: :
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
- Talk: :
Information structure in Gamo: Focus in Gamo - Talk: :
Information structure in Fulfulde
Handout (PDF) - Talk: & :
A morphological analyzer for Wolof using finite-state techniques
- Talk: :
Complex predicates in Ama
- Talk: :
Western Dogon as a Genetic Unit
- Workshop:
Genealogical and areal linguistic relations in the Kalahari Basin
Organization: - Talk: :
The Lower Nossob varieties of Tuu: ǃUi, Taa or neither?
- Talk: :
Grammatical relations and informations structure in Dogon languages - Poster: :
The nature of complex predicates in Ama
- Talk: :
Complex predicates in Ama
- Workshop: CRC 632 project 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
- Talk: :
The structure of the predicate in Ama - Talk: & :
Expression of predicate-centered focus in Bantu - Talk: :
Focus particles in Bambara
- Workshop: CRC 632 project B7
Elicitation methods
The conjoint/disjoint dichotomy in Bantu languages- &
Predicate-centered focus in Mombo
Focus in Songhai languages
Program (PDF)
MPI Nijmegen
March 1, 2014
SOAS University of London
February 11, 2014
January 14, 2014
January 7, 2014
December 10 & 11, 2013
December 3, 2013
November 19, 2013
October 22, 2013
October 11, 2013
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
September 16, 2013
August 28-31, 2013
SOAS University of London
August 16, 2013
MPI Leipzig
June 10-12, 2013
May 22-24, 2013
May 14, 2013
May 7, 2013
April 16, 2013
January 22, 2013
October 19 & 20, 2012
October 8, 2012
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
September 3-29, 2012
Field research: , Khartoum (Sudan)
August 27-29, 2012
August 20-24, 2012
Buea (Kamerun)
June 26, 2012
June 12, 2012
June 7 & 8, 2012
May 29 - June 2, 2012
May 31, 2012
January 24, 2012
January 17, 2012
November 11, 2011
September 2-4, 2011
August 29-31, 2011
July 25-30, 2011
July 21-24, 2011
The University of Hong Kong
April 19, 2011
November 21 & 22, 2010
Program (PDF)
August 23-25, 2010
July 8-10, 2010
Talk: :
Preposed verb-doubling and predicate-centered focus
Handout (PDF)
SFB 632 Informationsstruktur: International conference 2010, Universität Potsdam
April 8-10, 2010
Talk: :
Attributive possession and the alienability split in Gbe
19. Afrikanistentag, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
March 2-31, 2010
Field research: , Kairo
February 23, 2010
December 15, 2009
Guest: :
Focus in Fang and other Bantu A70 languages
Handout (PDF)
December 8, 2009
Guest: :
Subject clitics in Sheko (Omotic) – the link between syntax and information structure
Handout (PDF)