News and events
October 19–20, 2012
- Workshop:
Workshop with members of research group "Mise en relief et mise en retrait : le marquage morphologique de la hiérarchie discursive"
September 03–29, 2012
Field research: , Khartoum (Sudan)
August 20–24 2012
- Talk: :
Focusing complex predicates
Past events
June 26, 2012, 16:15
- Talk: :
Dissertation: “Information structure in Gamo: The grammaticalization of ‘copula’ elements in Ometo”
Invalidenstr.118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
June 12, 2012, 16:15
- Talk: :
Topic im Fulfulde”
Invalidenstr.118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
June 07, 2012
- Talk: :
State-of-Affairs focus in complex predicate structures
June 01, 2012
- Talk: :
Termfokus in Fulfulde - Talk: :
Focus and word order in Gamo
May 31, 2012
- Workshop:
Workshop with members of research group "Syntax, Typology, and Information Structure"
January 24, 2012, 16:15
- Talk: :
Dissertation: “Information structure in Gamo: Focus in Gamo”
Invalidenstr.118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
January 17, 2012, 16:15
- Talk: :
Dissertation: „Informationsstruktur im Fulfulde”
Invalidenstr.118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
November 11, 2011
- Talk: :
A Morphological Analyzer For Wolof Using Finite-State Techniques
Invalidenstr.118, Raum 410, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
September 02–04, 2011
- Talk: :
Complex predicates in Ama
29.–31. August 2011
- Talk: :
Western Dogon as a Genetic Unit
29-31 August, 2011, Leiden
25.–30. July 2011
- Workshop: :
Genealogical and areal linguistic relations in the Kalahari Basin - Talk: :
The Lower Nossob varieties of Tuu: ǃUi, Taa or neither?
25.–30. July, 2011, Osaka
21.–24. July 2011
- Talk: :
Grammatical relations and informations structure in Dogon languages - Poster: :
The nature of complex predicates in Ama
21.-24. July, 2011, The University of Hong Kong
19. April 2011
- Talk: :
Complex predicates in Ama
(Linguistisches Kolloquium des Seminars für Afrikawissenschaften)
of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
21–22. November 2010
- SFB 632 B7 Workshop
- Guests:
- , 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)
Project members
(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
Programme (PDF)
August 23–25, 2010
- Talk: :
The structure of the predicate in Ama - Talk: :
Expression of predicate-centered focus in Bantu - Talk: :
Focus particles in Bambara
July 9, 2010
Talk: :
Preposed verb-doubling and predicate-centered focus.
SFB 632 Information structure: International conference 2010, 8.–10. Juli 2010, University of Potsdam
Handout (PDF)
April 08–10, 2010
Talk: :
Attributive possession and the alienability split in Gbe
19. Afrikanistentag Mainz, 8.–10. April 2010
March 02–31, 2010
Field research: , Kairo
February 23, 2010
Project-internal workshop, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften,
Guest:
Preliminary programme (PDF)
December 15, 2009
Invited talk: :
Focus in Fang and other Bantu A70 languages
Handout (PDF)
December 08, 2009
Invited talk: :
Subject clitics in Sheko (Omotic) - the link between syntax and information structure
Handout (PDF)