Thanks to everyone who participated in the conference!
Many of the handouts, posters and slides from keynote speakers, general sessions, poster sessions and workshops can be downloaded from this page.
KEYNOTES
Larry M. Hyman (University of California, Berkeley)
Do we need underlying representations in Bantu?
Yukiko Morimoto (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Verb doubling vs. the conjoint/disjoint alternation
Steve Nicolle (CanIL, Trinity Western University)
A linguistic cycle for quotatives in eastern Bantu languages
GENERAL SESSIONS (organised approximately alphabetically by author)
HALS 2016 Team (Stephan Schulz)
Report: Group Field Research Trip to South Africa, May 2016
Roger Blench
New research on Tivoid and its place within Bantoid
Vicki Carstens, Loyiso Mletshe & Jochen Zeller
Adverbial kuphela (‘only’) in Xhosa and Zulu
Thera Crane & Axel Fleisch
Event type lexicalization across language boundaries: verbs in South African Ndebele Varieties
Denis Creissels & Rozenn Guérois
Cuwabo relativization: accessibility hierarchy and the typology of Bantu inversion constructions
Helen Eaton
Event line structure in Vwanji narratives (handout)
Event line structure in Vwanji narratives (slides)
Hazel Gray
Prefixing a prefix: a study of nominal pre-prefixation in Kisi and Manda (handout)
Prefixing a prefix: a study of nominal pre-prefixation in Kisi and Manda (slides)
Hilde Gunnink
The fronted-infinitive construction in Fwe (K402)
Riikka Halme-Berneking
Umbundu unique items in the translation of narrative texts
Hermann Keupdjio & Martina Wiltschko
All about the speaker: the syntax of biased questions in Bamileke Medumba
Heidrun Kröger
TA in Mozambican Ngoni – inflections beyond time
Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou
L’expression du temps en ikota, langue bantu(B25) du Gabon
Kathleen O’Connor & Cédric Patin
Asymmetries in hiatus resolution across morpheme boundaries in Shingazidja
Holly Robinson & Lotta Aunio
Ikuzu nominal tones
Galen Sibanda
Using the applicative to organize Ndebele verb semantic classes
POSTERS
Maya Abe
Counterfactual conditional sentences in Mbugu
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström & Nozibele Nomdebevana
Corpus of spoken Xhosa
Jeroen Breteler
When tone meets foot (and licensing constraints, and Harmonic Serialism)
Rose-Marie Déchaine & Hermann Keupdjio
Number in Bamileke Medumba
Makoto Furumoto
On the final vowel in Kikae (paper)
Kasombo Tshibanda Michaël
Structure segmentale du radical verbal et comportement tonal in ruwund (L53)
Hermann Keupdjio
On A-bar agreement in Bamileke Medumba
Kumiko Miyazaki
Animacy hierarchy in double object constructions in Lunyole
Malin Petzell & Lotta Aunio
Curious bits about Kami (G36)
Johnny Walker & Lotta Aunio
Simbiti (JE431) melodic tones
Alexander Zheltov
The comparative analysis of morphemic and submorphemic neutralizations in Bantu pronominal paradigms
Gerrit de Wit
Grammaticalization of time adverbials in Liko (D201)
WORKSHOPS
Workshop 1: Approaches to morpho-syntactic micro-variation in Bantu
Yuko Abe
Toward microvariation parameters of persistive in Lake Tanganyika Bantu
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
Morpho-syntactic variation in a Xhosa microvariation project: what can a discourse-centered approach offer? (handout)
Morpho-syntactic variation in a Xhosa microvariation project: what can a discourse-centered approach offer? (slides)
Malin Petzell
Developing parameters for mapping morphophonological and morphosyntactic variation
Nobuko Yoneda
Forms and functions of noun-modifying classes in Bantu languages
Workshop 2: The expression of mood and modality in Bantu languages (MoMod)
Rasmus Bernander
On the modal verb -hoto(l)- in Manda (N11)
Nadine Grimm
Expression of mood and modality in Gyeli
Ferdinand Mberamihigo
Modal devices in Kirundi: A corpus-driven approach (pdf; PowerPoint version here)
Stefan Savic
Tense, Aspect and Modality in isiXhosa (pdf; PowerPoint version here)
Workshop 3: Bantu historical linguistics
Rhiannon Stephens
Diachronic semantics and the concept “poverty” in Eastern Uganda
Workshop 4: Bantu objects and object marking (BOOM!)
Justine Sikuku
The object marking domain and the classification of Bantu languages (pdf; PowerPoint version here)
Tomohiro Yokoyama
Structure and features: the ordering of object markers in Kinyarwanda
Jenneke van der Wal
Flexibility in symmetry: an implicational relation in Bantu double object constructions
Workshop 5: Verbal derivation and verb extensions in Bantu
Sebastian Dom, Leonid Kulikov & Koen Bostoen
Middle voice in Bantu (handout)
Middle voice in Bantu (slides)
Heidrun Kröger
Verbal plurality – not so common extensions in Mozambican Ngoni
Workshop 6: Melodic tones in Bantu languages
Lee Bickmore
Melodic tones in Bantu nouns
Maud Devos & Salamo Calawia
Mwani melodic tones
Hilde Gunnink
Melodic tone in Fwe (K402)
Gérard Philippson
Melodic tones and inflectional morphemes in Central Kenyan Languages (E50)
(Last updated TC 07.09.2016)