Language Documentation &

Linguistic Theory 2

School of Oriental and African Studies, London

13 - 14 November 2009

Programme

The conference programme for LDLT2 is now available below. It may also be viewed in large format. Click on the title of a presentation to view the abstract.

All talks in parallel sessions will last 20 mins, with 10 mins for questions and discussion. Conference rooms will be equiped with a PC, speakers and data projector.

The registration desk will open at 9.15 on Friday 13 November 2009, but all delegates must pre-register online before Monday 12 October 2009.

Tea/coffee, lunch on both days and the drinks reception on Friday 13 November are included in the registration fee. Participants who would like to attend the conference dinner must book a place for this event during the registration process.

	Friday 13 November 2009
09.15	Registration
09.40	Welcome - Khalili Lecture Theatre
	AFRICA - AGREEMENT Chair: TBC	CAUCASUS - SYNTAX Chair: TBC
10.00	Do formal models constrain language description? The case of verbal agreement morphology Michael Thomas, University of Colorado at Boulder	Laz relative clauses in a typological and areal perspective René Lacroix, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Lyon
10.30	Gender and person markers in Cicipu discourse: 'non-topical' and 'topical' anaphoric agreement Stuart McGill, School of Oriental and African Studies, London	A theory is only as good as the data: casting a wide net in Kabardian and Ahtna documentation Ayla B. Applebaum, University of California, Santa Barbara Andrea L. Berez, University of California, Santa Barbara
11.00	Break
	AFRICA - PHONOLOGY Chair: TBC	SEMANTICS Chair: TBC
11.30	Opacity in Bantu: in support of the internal organisation of features Nancy C. Kula, University of Essex	Toward a notion of possible verb in Emai Ronald P Schaefer, SIU Edwardsville Francis O. Egbokhare, University of Ibadan
12.00	Phonology and phonetics of tone in Northern Sotho, a Southern Bantu language Sabine Zerbian, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg	Narrative structuring (and restructuring) in Totela: a group study of tense-aspect in the field Thera Marie Crane, University of California, Berkeley / University of Zambia
12.30	Modeling a new Guro orthography Natalia Kuznetsova, University of Tartu / Institute for Language Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences Olga Kuznetsova, Institute for Language Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences Valentin Vydrin, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography at Russian Academy of Sciences	Mapping negation in conceptual space Oliver Bond, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
13.00	Lunch
	AUSTRALIA - SYNTAX/SEMANTICS Chair: TBC	LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION Chair: TBC
14.30	Documenting deixis in Wik-Ngatharr and Wik-Ngathan Louise Ashmore, School of Oriental and African Studies, London	The linguistic importance of language isolates: the African case Jean-Marie Hombert, Dynamique du Langage (CNRS, Université de Lyon) Gérard Philippson, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris / Dynamique du Langage (CNRS, Université de Lyon)
15.00	Orientation or Location? A Case-Study of Jaminjung and Kriol Dorothea Hoffmann, University of Manchester	(Un)classifying Shabo: phylogenetic methods and results Tyler Schnoebelen, Stanford University
15.30	Murrinh-Patha agreement: implications for the relationship between theory and description Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne	Minderico: an endangered language in Portugal Vera Ferreira, University of Regensburg Peter Bouda, University of Regensburg
16.00	Break
	PLENARY LECTURE - LARRY M. HYMAN Chair: TBC
16.30	Good things come in small languages: grammatical loss and innovation in Nzadi Larry M. Hyman, University of California, Berkeley
17.30	Reception
19.00	Conference dinner

	Saturday 14 November 2009
	SYNTAX Chair: TBC	DOCUMENTATION OUTCOMES Chair: TBC
09.30	Null arguments and homonymy flight in the development of creole pronoun systems Melani Wratil, University of Düsseldorf
10.00	Displaced arguments: S-O-V-X word order in Mande Tatiana Nikitina, Freie Universität, Berlin	Towards a model of maximal accessibility in linguistic documentation work Conor McDonough Quinn, University of Nizwa
10.30	A note on the typology of head-internal relativization Ken Hiraiwa, Meiji Gakuin University	From text to typology: towards implementing quantitative typology on corpora from endangered languages Geoffrey Haig, University of Kiel Stefan Schnell, University of Kiel
11.00	Nominal tense in Tundra Nenets and Northern Samoyedic Irina Nikolaeva, School of Oriental and African Studies, London	The Uncunwee (Ghulfan) Documentation Project: linking language documentation to language conservation Robert S. Williams, The American University in Cairo Angelika Jakobi, Universität zu Köln Jade Comfort, Leiden University
11.30	Break
	PANEL DISCUSSION
12.00	Is Africa really different? Documentation and theory construction for African languages
13.00	Lunch
	PLENARY LECTURE - TANIA KUTEVA Chair: TBC
14.30	Grammatical categories and linguistic theory Tania Kuteva, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf / School of Oriental and African Studies, London
15.30	Break
	AFRICA - NOMINALS/IDEOPHONES Chair: TBC	PHONETICS/PROSODY Chair: TBC
16.00	Multiple noun class prefixes in Otijiherero Lutz Marten, School of Oriental and African Studies, London	Ultrasound imaging and theories of tongue root phenomena in African languages Fusheni Hudu, University of British Columbia Amanda Miller, University of British Columbia Douglas Pulleyblank, University of British Columbia
16.30	Construct forms of nouns in African languages Denis Creissels, Université Lumière (Lyon2)	Discrete level narrative, terraced music: insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages Dafydd Gibbon, Universität Bielefeld Firmin Ahoua, Université de Cocody, Abidjan Blé François Kipré, Université de Cocody, Abidjan Sascha Griffiths, University of Canterbury
17.00	Ideophones in unexpected genres: what a varied corpus can tell us about the linguistic and cultural ecology of ideophony in Siwu (Kwa, eastern Ghana) Mark Dingemanse, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen	Typology of prosodic systems in Low Luga Izhorian varieties Natalia Kuznetsova, University of Tartu / Institute for Language Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences
17.30	Close