Conference Program
Friday June 1, 2018 | |
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| 9:00 | Coffee and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30 | Welcome, Introductions, and Orientation |
| Session 1: Phonology Chair: Colleen Ahland | |
| 10:00 | The functional load of tone in Hausa Nicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley), Stephanie Shih (USC) and Sharon Inkelas (UC Berkeley) |
| 10:30 | A new perspective on Mehri diminutives Morgan Rood (Carleton College) |
| 11:00 | Consonant harmony in Tunisian Arabic: could it be a contact outcome with Tamazight Soubeika Bahri (CUNY) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Break |
| Session 2: Phonetics I Chair: Zelealem Leyew Temesgen | |
| 12:00 | Effects of dialect, gender and context on vowel durations in Oromo Feda Negesse (Addis Ababa University) and Tujube Amansa (Addis Ababa University) |
| 12:30 | The domain of emphasis spread in Arabic: Evidence from urban Jordanian Arabic Aziz Jaber (Yarmouk University), Osama Omari (Yarmouk University) and Rasheed Al-Jarrah (Yarmouk University) |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| Session 3: Phonetics II Chair: Binyam Sisay Mendisu | |
| 2:00 | Incomplete phonetic neutralization in Arabic vowel alternations Nancy Hall (California State University, Long Beach) |
| 2:30 | An acoustic analysis of Amharic fricatives Derib Ado Jekale (Addis Ababa University) |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break |
| Session 4: Syntax Chair: Riitta Valijärvi | |
| 3:30 | On the case system of Berber Lydia Felice (Georgetown) |
| 4:00 | The interaction of discontinuous agreement with auxiliaries in Amharic: A distributed morphology approach Ruth Kramer (Georgetown) |
| 4:30 | On the syntax of ellipsis: Sluicing and cleft-sluicing in Egyptian Arabic Usama Soltan (Middlebury College) |
| 5:00 | End of day one |
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Saturday, June 2 | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee and Continental Breakfast |
| Session 1: Historical Linguistics I Chair: Ruth Kramer | |
| 9:00 | Language change in Amharic Zelealem Temesgen (Addis Ababa University) |
| 9:30 | Revisiting the independent pronouns in Hamar: a historical-comparative perspective Moges Yigezu (Addis Ababa University) |
| 10:00 | The development of subject case marking in Omotic-Mao Michael Ahland (California State University, Long Beach) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| Session 2: Syntax Chair: Cem Demir | |
| 11:00 | Overt/null subjects in Algerian Arabic: A quantitative approach Osama Omari (Yarmouk University) and Amina Madani (Yarmouk University) |
| 11:30 | Coptic noun class and the morphophonology of gender Chris Reintges (CNRS/LLF/University Paris 7) and Sabrina Bendjaballah (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes) |
| 12:00 | On the syntax and semantics of the transitivity of prepositional verbs in Arabic Basem Al-Raba'a (Oberlin College) |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch Provided for registered participants |
| 1:30-2:30 | Session 3: Poster Session |
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An Afro-Asiatic perspective on the definition of serial verb constructions Daniel Ross (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A typology of North African writing systems Eve Koller (University of Hawaii at Manoa) First language influence on the spoken Amharic of Gurage speakers Solomon Getahun Assefa (Hawassa University) Intensive word borrowing between Highland East Cushitic (HEC) and the Ometo group: Implications for the spread of concepts and influences Shiferaw Assefa |
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| Session 4: Historical Linguistics II Chair: Lily Okalani Kahn | |
| 2:30 | Submorphemes in Hebrew Zev Bar-Lev (San Diego State University) |
| 3:00 | Morphosyntactic evolution in the Moroccan Arabic verb Thomas Leddy-Cecere (UT Austin) and Michael Turner (UT Austin) |
| 3:30 | Internal structure of root meaning in Afroasiatic languages Karim Achab (University of Ottawa) |
| 4:00-4:30 | Break |
| 4:30 | Keynote Address: Expanding the Afroasiatic Reconstruction: Historical Linguistics in a Deep-Time Language Family Christopher Ehret (UCLA) |
| 6:00 | Reception across the Quad from the Hall of Science, in front of The Nugget--all are welcome |
| 7:00 | Banquet in the Chartroom; must be paid for in advance |
| 9:00 | End of day two |
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Sunday, June 3 | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Coffee and Continental Breakfast |
| Session 1: Syntax I Chair: Michael Ahland | |
| 9:30 | Tense and aspect in Hamar Binyam Sisay Mendisu (UNESCO-IICBA) |
| 10:00 | Serial verb constructions in Sezo Girma Mengistu Desta (Addis Ababa University) |
| 10:30 | Verbal extension and valence in the Gumer variety of Gurage Fekede Menuta (Hawassa University) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| Session 2: Syntax II Chair: Nancy Hall | |
| 11:30 | The marked nominative in Arabic, Semitic, and Afroasiatic Lutz Edzard (University of Oslo) |
| 12:00 | Discourse particles in contemporary spoken Maltese Lily Okalani Kahn (University College London) and Riitta-Liisa Valijarvi (University College London) |
| 12:30 | Spatial deictics and grammaticalization in Tigrinya Shimelis Mazengia Beyene (Addis Ababa University) |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch Provided for registered participants |
| Session 3: Sociolinguistics Chair: Bethany Lycan | |
| 2:00 | Linguistic distance and mutual intelligibility among South Ethiosemitic languages: A combined approach Tekabe Legesse Feleke (University of Verona) |
| 2:30 | Language contact and its effects on Gurage varieties of Muher Awlachew Shumneka Nurga (Addis Ababa University) |
| 3:00 | Closing Comments |
| 3:30 | End of day three |
