7th
World Congress of African Linguistics
(WOCAL7) University of Buea, August 20
th 24
th , 2012
P.O. Box 63 Buea. Email: [email protected]
Day 1: Monday August 20, 2012
Morning session
8:00 9:45 Registration 9:30 11:00 Poster Session I
1) Language development in Chad - Beat Kunz
2) Using posters in linguistics training in Chad - Mary Pearce
3) Dictionnaires et dromadaires en langue dazaga - Mahamat Wardougou Chidi, Hassan Bolobo Made, Ramadan Hassaballah, Mahamoud Koki Omouri ,
Rivers Camp, Mary Pearce
4) SVO/OVS Pronoun patterns in Mubi - Emma Kuipers
5) Pronoms possessifs en mogoum - Youssouf Moussa, Hassan Djarma, Emma Kuipers
6) La forme locative du nom en mawa - Youssouf Hissein (FAPLG)
7) La morphophonologie dans lorthographe mawa Youssouf Hissein (FAPLG), James Roberts
8) Highly Precise Colour Naming in African Languages Arnold Groh
9) Language Choice in African Mobile Telephony Arnold Groh
10) The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project Anna Belew
11:15 12:30 Opening Ceremony 11:15 Welcome by Wocal7 organisers 11:25 Welcome by Secretary General of Wocal Matthias Brenzinger 11:35 Welcome by President of Wocal Standing Committee Akin Akinlabi 11:45 Word from Executive Secretary of CERDOTOLA Prof Charles Binam Bikoi 11:55 Interlude UB choir 12:10 Welcome by the Vice Chancellor of UB Prof Nalova Lyonga 12:30 Keynote address by the Minister of Higher Education - Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo 12:45 14:00 Welcome cocktail
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Afternoon Session
14:00
15:00 First Plenary : Amphi 750 Jean-Marie Hombert and Rebecca Grollemund: Development of Bantu specialized lexicon Moderator: Beban Sammy Chumbow
Language in Education (Room1)
Moderation: Michel
Lafon & Adjaratou
Oumar Sall
Language Documentation
(R2)
Moderation: Matthias
Brenzinger
& Ana Stela A. Cunha
Social Dimensions of
Language + Language
Contact + Intercultural
Communication (R3)
Moderation: Roland
Kiessling
& Yamina El Kirat
Phonetics & Phonology
(R4)
Moderation: Keith
Snider & Kyoko Koga
Morphosyntax
(R5)
Moderation: Edmond
Biloa & Raimundo
Enedino Dos Santos
15:20 15:45
Justifying discipline-specific
English academic literacy
support for university
education
H.G. Butler
One or two languages? Bom
and Kim, two highly
endangered South Atlantic
languages of Sierra Leone G.
Tucker Childs
Exploring request speech act and
request strategies in the ghomala
language
Gabriel Mba
Non-Compositional Tones in
Defaka Compounds Akinbiyi
Akinlabi, Bruce Connell,
William Bennett, Inoma
Essien
Frozen verbal forms in
Kanuri aspects of
grammaticalisation and
lexicalisation
Eva Rothmaler
15: 45 16:10
Savoirs locaux et langues
locales pour lenseignement
en Afrique
Henry TOURNEUX
HADIDJA Kona
Oral Language Documentation
in Ngungwel
Angela Williams-Ngumbu
Linguistic Diversities In African
Nation States: Stepping Stones
Or Stumbling Blocks For
Development
Greg S. Kame
Une hirarchie prosodique sans
groupe phonologique: le cas de
lembosi (C25) Annie
Rialland, Georges Martial
Embanga A., Jean-Marc
Beltzung
The pragmatics of the
subject and object markers of
Kua/Cua
Mawande Dlali
Andy Chebanne
16:10 16:35
Second Language Education
In Cameroun
Emmanuel Nforbi
A Documentatioin Of The Oro
Traditional Children Games,
Songs And Dances
Golden Ekpo
An appraisal of subtitling by the
hard-of-hearing in Cameroon: a
case study
Ayonghe Lum Suzanne,
Wojungbwen Gumuh
Emmanuel
The Morpho-phonological
Processes Operating in Chuka:
A Conservative Dialect in the
Meru-Tharaka Group
Fridah Erastus Kanana
Plural derivation in the noun
class system of Ndengeleko
Eva-Marie Strm
16:35 17:05
Break Break Break Break Break
Sociolinguisti
cs Workshop
Information
Session
Moderation: Jeff
Good & Tucker Childs
17:05 17:30
Language Issues and
Challenges Associated With
Educational Assessment for
Regional
Integration: A Case Study of
the Wider East African
Community
When the wrong language
is being documented.
Language documentation
and language shift among
Bakola community(ies) in
Cameroon.
Emmanuel NGUE UM &
The English of Efik- English
bilinguals
Eyo Offiong Mensah
Briefing on outcomes of
workshop
Some Aspects of Verbal
Morphology in Dagik
(Kordofanian,
Talodi)
John Vanderelst
Bertha Othoche , Ronnie
Anyanzwa Daniel Duke
17:30 17:55
The Role of Proclaimer in
meeting the literacy challenge
in Cameroon
James Tasah N.
Early Language Documentation by Herero Missionaries Martina Anissa Stroemer
West African contact languages:
are they pidgins or creoles?
Aloysius Ngefac
ELDP Information and advice
Mandana Seyfeddinipur Arguments for a nasal
consonant cluster analysis of
Sukwa
Atikonda Akuzike Mtenje
17:55 18:20 Variations dialectales, variations orthographiques et
systme dcriture emergents
Jean Romain Kouesso
Documentation of the
Vocabulary and tone melodies
of the Boro-Ukwala dialect of
Dholuo
Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor
Monolingualism by
Multilingualism: A
Sociolinguistic Case Study of
Language Use in Western
Ugandan City, Hoima
Shigeki Kaji
The Catalogue of Endangered
Languages (ELCat) project
Anna Belew
Adverbs And Adverbial
Modifications In Kenyang
Florence A.E.Tabe Oben
18:20 18:45
Les dfis inhrents a
lintellectualisation des
langues africaines: le cas
dune langue camerounaise, le
yambetta
Maxime Yves Julien Manifi
On Bilingual Education in
Africa
Davidson Mbagwu &
Cecilia Amaoge Eme
Towards Capacity Building: An
Exploration of Code-Switching in
Selected Local Schools Cape
Town
Magdalene Mbong
Training session and
consultations
The Structure of the Bantu
NP: Issues from Eastern and
Southern Bantu Languages
Amani Lusekelo
Day 2: Tuesday August 21, 2012
Morning Session
8:30 9:30 Second Plenary: Beban Sammy Chumbow The Language Factor in a Model of Appropriation of Innovations in Science and Technology Moderation: EKKERHARD, WOLF
Language in Education (R1)
Moderation: Gabriel Mba
& Henry TOURNEUX
Language Diversity
(R2)
Moderation: Jeff Good
& Fatima Hamlaoui
R3 Social Dimensions of
Language
(R3) Moderation: Shigeki
Kaji & Martin Puetz
Phonetics & Phonology
(R4)
Moderation: Akin
Akinlabi & Niba
Ayuunwi
Morphosyntax
(R5)
Moderation:
Mawande Dlali &
Joshua T. Ham
9:50 10:15 Better be second than nowhere ! In South Africa,
their teaching as second
languages may be the
salvation of African languages MICHEL LAFON
Faits morphophonologiques
dans la comparaison
de trois dialectes wolof : le
wolof de Dakar, le faana-
faana du Saloum et le lbu de
Ouakam
Mamour Dram
Gender distinction and
language change in Kamtok
Carole de Fral
Phonological structure of
soumray verbs
James Roberts
Actual Clauses in
Lubukusu and the Theory
of Clausal
Complementation
Mark Baker, Ken
Safir,Justine Sikuku
10:15 10:40 Language, Education and Identity Construction in Post Colonial
Cameroon: Implications for
Development in the era of
Ideologies of Africa's
language diversity Matthias Brenzinger
Egyptian Arabic as a Written
Language
Haruko Sakaedani
Tone in Western Ejagham
(Etung): Lexical tone on
verb forms with segmental
affixes John R. Watters
The Pronouns in Wolayta
Bekale Seyum
Globalisation
Blasius Chiatoh & Wainkem
Praxidis
10:40 11:05 Learning to Teach Learning
Naftali H. Stern
Passive and Neuter
Constructions in Setswana: A
comparative study
Setumile Morapedi
Hegemonic Discourse In
Some Cameroonian
Newspapers: The Post,
Cameroon Tribune And Le
Messager Of 2009
Caroline Stephanie Jiogo
Ngaufack
Toward a proposition of
phonological proto-system
of A80
Marion Cheucle
Less common verb
extensions in Ruhaya
Henry R. T. Muzale
11:05 11:35 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break
11:35 12:00 Documenting Learning in French as a Foreign Language
Sellah L. Lusweti
Ideophones in Narrow
Grassfie
