Prof. Ceri Ashley (British Museum, London): “Pathways through the Forest? Reflecting on the Archaeology of Early Farming Communities in Great Lakes Africa”.
On December 12 we have the honour to welcome Prof. Ceri Ashley (British Museum, London) with a talk on “Pathways through the Forest? Reflecting on the Archaeology of Early Farming Communities in Great Lakes Africa“. Her talk will be followed by a BantuFirst research pitch on “The New West-Coastal Bantu Homeland: An Archaeological Assessment” by Sara Pacchiarotti & Dirk Seidensticker.
Dr. Louis Champion (Goethe Universität Frankfurt): “Domestication of Pearl Millet in Africa: Potential Origins and Diffusion”.
On November 21 we have the honour to welcome Dr. Louis Champion (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) with a talk on the “Domestication of Pearl Millet in Africa: Potential Origins and Diffusion“. His talk will be followed by a BantuFirst research pitch on “Bananas in Early Bantu Speech Communities: Reconsidering Linguistic Evidence” by Sifra Van Acker. More info can be found here.
Lengson Ngwasi (University of Gothenburg): “The non-reflexive functions of the reflexive prefix -i- in the Tanzanian Bantu languages Hehe, Nilamba and Nyaturu”.
You can find the abstract here.
Prof. Dr Michal Starke (Masaryk University): “Cutting French verbs and gluing them back together”.
Abstract: Descriptively, French has many “irregular” verbs, as well as a mildly complex combination of suffixes on verbs. I aim to show that both irregular verbs and the combination of verbal suffixes follow a regular underlying system, and that this system can be elegantly derived by using phrasal spellout, the elsewhere principle and the functional sequence provided by syntax.
ΔiaLing-presentation by Dr. Leonid Kulikov (UGent, ΔiaLing): “Gr. Κένταυρος and his (non-)Indo-European relatives: the Indo-Iranian myth of the primordial incest between twins (Yamī and Yama) and its origins.”
DiaLing presentation by Prof. Dr. Carme Silva Domínguez (University of Santiago de Compostela): “The Evolution of Possessive Pronouns: Forms and Structures from Latin to Modern Galician and Portuguese.”
Abstract: This presentation offers a comparison between possessive pronouns in three varieties proceeding from LAtin: Medieval Galician-Portuguese, Modern Galician and Modern Portuguese. First of all we will explain the morphological evolution of the paradigm through the examination of the main evolutionary phenomena which allow us to contrast the ancient and modern languages. After that we will deal with the constructive changes in the possessive structures: among them, the combination with article, placement strategies and evolution beyond the noun phrase. In addition, the syntactic behavior of the possessive seems to be different in Galician and in Portuguese, although further research about non normative varieties is needed.
Prof. André Motingea Mangulu (UPN Kinshasa) will give a talk with the title “Particularités des langues mongo parlées par les groupes d’anciens chasseurs-collecteurs du bassin central congolais : Une contribution à la linguistique historique et à l’histoire des migrations.”
After that, there will be a BantuFirst research pitch on “Dorsal fricatives in West Coastal Bantu: substrate interference from extinct hunter- gatherer languages?”, presented by Dr Sara Pacchiarotti.
The Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (HPIMS) is organizing their 2019 Autumn school in Medieval Languages and Culture on the theme of Multilingualism and language varieties in Europe.
In particular, on Tuesday 22 October, Roger Wright (University of Liverpool) will give a lecture (11.00-12.30) on “The emergence of the vernacular languages in the Middle Ages; Romance in the Iberian Peninsula in the Tenth Century.” After lunch, Anna Adamska will give a lecture (15.30-17.00) with the title “A laboratory of multilingual communication? Speaking, writing and reading, in the towns of late medieval East Central Europe.”
For more information, please visit https://www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/news-events/events/sociolinguistics.
Attendance for individual lectures, as well as the entire Autumn School, is free for UGent members, but registration is required: please inform the organisers of your attendance for specific lectures, or for the Autumn school as a whole, at Martine.DeReu@ugent.be.