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
Back to topAarhus, 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
Back to topLeiden, 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
Back to topLeipzig, 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.”
Nakagawa, Hirosi. “Place feature distribution in Khoisan lexical morphemes”
Methodology in Linguistic Prehistory
Back to topBerlin, 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
Back to topPreston, 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
Back to topOsaka, 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
Back to topSomlószőlős, 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
Back to topLeipzig, 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
Back to topLeipzig, Germany, 11 to 12 July 2010
Presentations included the following:
Boden, Gertrud. “Variation and Change in Taa Kin Terminologies.”
KBA CRP Meeting 1
Back to topLeipzig, Germany, 15 January 2010
EuroBABEL Launch Conference
Back to topBerlin, Germany, 11 to 13 September 2009
The EuroBABEL Launch Conference was held in Berlin, 11 to 13 September, 2009.