Lectures and Papers

Kastenholz, Raimund

2019 "Auxiliaries and co-verbs in Pere". Paper presented at the Adamawa Conference, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, September 9-11, 2019.

2019 "Aspect and related things in Pɛrɛ (Cameroon)". Paper presented at PhD Student Workshop: TAM Systems in Adamawa Languages, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, May 13-14, 2019.

2014  "The Verb in Pere". Paper presented at the Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Abteilung für Linguistik, October 7, 2014.

2013  "Tonmarkierte Verbstämme und Argumentenstruktur im Pere (Adamawa, Kamerun)". Paper presented at the 'Linguistisches Kolloquium', Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften,Institut für Asien-und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 12, 2013.

2012  "Ventive and itive constructions in Pɛrɛ (Adamawa Region, Cameroon)". Paper presented at the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 7): University of Buea, August 20 - 24, 2012.

2011  "Complex sentences in Pɛrɛ". Paper presented at the Workshop: Catching language in the wider Lake Chad area: The constant challenges of language change; Gumpoldskirchen (Vienna), December 1-4, 2011.

2011  "Eigenschaftsverben im Pɛrɛ". Paper presented at the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 17, 2011.

2009  "The expression of property concepts in Pɛrɛ (Adamawa, Cameroon)". Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6), Universität z.u Köln, August 17-21, 2009.

2007  "Die Bua-Sprachen (Adamawa, Tschad): Ein Vergleich". Paper presented at the 18. Afrikanistentag, Wien, July 23-25, 2007.

2006  "Das Bolgo, eine Adamawasprache im Guéra (Tschad)". Paper presented at the 17. Afrikanistentag, München February 11-13, 2006.

 

Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich

2021 Benue- Volta HD Waja HD Longuda HD Tula HD Lonto HD Riitime HD Robma

2019 "Is there a Waja-Jen?". Paper presented at the Adamawa Conference, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, September 9-11, 2019.

2018 "Die 'Ding-Klasse' °ne im Lɔŋto und seinen Verwandten. (Ding-Klasse ne im Loŋto)". Paper presented at: Kolloquium: 'Prof. Dr. Raimund Kastenholz'. Johannes Gutenberg Universität,  Mainz; March 2nd, 2018.

2016 "Class *nʌ and Class *-ti in SambaDuru, a subgroup of Adamawa-Gur". Paper presented at: Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction. 2nd International Congress; Paris, Sept. 1-3, 2016.

2014  "Pluractionals in 'Adamawa". Paper presented at the Workshop: Pluractionals and Verbal Plurals. Institut für Afrikanistik und Ägyptoilogie. Universität zu Köln. April 3-4, 2014.

2014  "Adamawa". Paper presented at 'Linguistisches Kolloquium', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, February 2, 2014.

2012  "Samba - Duru: A core group of Central Adamawa". Paper presented at the International Congress: Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction, Paris,  September 18-21, 2012.

2012  "Overview of noun classes in Gur II (revised and enlarged version) (by Gudrun Miehe, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer, Manfred von Roncador and Kerstin Winkelmann)". Paper presented at the International Congress: Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction, Paris, September 18-21, 2012.

2012  "Correlations of the Noun Class Systems of Central Adamawa and Proto Central Gur".
Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Gur languages. Gur internal and external relationships, Universität Bayreuth, July 5 - 7, 2012.

2011  "The Vere-Gimme languages of Central Adamawa and their significance for the study of North Volta-Congo noun class morphology and syntax". Paper presented at the 'Institutskolloquium der Afrikanistik', Universität Bayreuth, June 19, 2011.

2010  "Noun class languages in 'Adamawa'". Paper presented at the Department of Linguistics, University of Buea, Cameroon, December 8, 2011.

2010. "Jalaa, the last member of an extinct language family". Paper presented at the Workshop: Language Isolates in Africa, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon, December 3-4, 2010.

2010  "Genitiv- und Possessivkonstruktionen im Vere-Doyayo und Lɔŋto, Central Adamawa". Paper presented at the 19. Afrikanistentag, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, April 8-10, 2010

2010  "The Gur - “Adamawa” Interface or The “Adamawa” Dilemma." Paper presented at the Workshop: Genealogical classification of African languages beyond Greenberg; Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, February 21-22, 2010.

2009  "Class RE in the class system of Lɔŋtó and its historical significance." Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6), Universität zu Köln, August 17-21, 2009.

2008  "Class languages in Central Adamawa". Paper presented at the Institutskolloquium der Afrikanistik, Universität Bayreuth, July, 2008.

 

Vigeland, Friederike

2021 "About big trees and small frogs - Adjectives in Longuda". Paper presented at the 24th Afrikanist*innentag, Frankfurt/Online, July 1-3, 2021.

2020 "Aspects of the noun class system in Longuda/Nʋngʋrama”. Paper presented at the Jos Linguistics Circle, Jos, Nigeria, February 12, 2020.

2019 "The numeral system in Longuda varieties". Paper presented at the Adamawa Conference, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, September 9-11, 2019.

2019 "TAM in Longuda/Nungurama - A first analysis". Paper presented at the PhD Student Workshop 'TAM Systems in Adamawa Languages', Asien-Afrika-Institut, Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, May 13-14, 2019.

 

Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich and Littig, Sabine

2012  "Negation Patterns in Sama Duru Languages". Paper presented at the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 7), University of Buea, August 20 - 24, 2012.

 

Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich & Vigeland, Friederike

2016 “Nʋngʋrama (Longuda) and Waja, Languages in Contact on the Longuda Plateau, NE Nigeria”. Paper presented at the Symposium of West African Languages 2016, Universität Wien, October 27-29, 2016

 

Former Members: 

Kramer, Raija

2016 “Un kũurre bak un wuysirre yi – Schlaft ihr noch und ruht euch aus?: Zum lexikalisierten Ausdruck phasaler Konzepte in Sprachen Nord-Kameruns“. Paper presented at the 22nd Afrikanistentag, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 27-29, 2016. https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/afrika/veranstaltung/archiv/22-afrikanistentag-juni-2016/kramer_un-kuurre-bak.pdf

2016  “The particle ɓɐ in Fali: Evidence for the genesis of a clause-final negator?“. Paper presented at Kolloquium: Adamawa-Gur-Sprachen im Brennpunkt Afrikanistischer Forschung, Universität Hamburg, February 8th 2016 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/19293

2014  "Common Ground Markierung: Die pragmatische Dimension von Negation im Fali". Paper presented at 'Afrikanistisches Kolloquium', Institut für Afrikanistik, Goethe University Frankfurt, January 31th, 2014

2014  "On Bounding in Fali (Adamawa): The Functional Diversity of Directional Particles".
Lecture presented at 'Linguistisches Kolloquium', Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 13th, 2012

2014  "Formen und Funktionen verbaler Extensionen im Fali (Adamawa)". Paper presented at 21. Afrikanistentag, University of Bayreuth, June 11, 2014

2014 "Language change and urban social networks in Northern Cameroon". Paper presented at LSSA, SAALA & SAALT Conference 2014 „Language Synergies and Intersections“.University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, June 25, 2014

2011  "On directional in Fali". Paper presented at the Workshop: Catching language in the wider Lake Chad area: The constant challenges of language change; Gumpoldskirchen (Wien), December 1-4, 2011.

2010  "Die Grammatikalisierung von Demonstrativa im Fali". Paper presented at 19. Afrikanistentag, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, April 8-10, 2010.

2009  "Das Element tɐ im Fali (Adamawa): nominales Präformativ, Pluralmarker, Pronomen". Paper presented at the Wiener Afrikawissenschaftliche Tagung für JungforscherInnen, Universität Wien , October 17, 2009.

2009  "Focus marking in Fali". Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6), Universität zu Köln, August 17-21, 2009.

 

Littig, Sabine

2019 "Adpositions in Adamawa languages with Focus on Samba-Duru languages". Paper presented at the Adamawa Conference, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, September 9-11, 2019.

2018Spatiale Strukturen im Samba-Duru“. Paper presented at the Kolloquiuum: Prof. Dr. Raimund Kastenholz. Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, March 2nd, 2018

2017Die Entwicklung einer Lokativklasse (-d--r-) im Samba-Duru”. Paper presented at the Linguistisches Kolloquium, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, January 16th, 2017

2016The expression of qualification in Samba-Duru“. Paper (in contribution with Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer) presented at the Symposium of West African Languages 2016, Universität Wien, October 27-29, 2016

2016Der Diskursmarker dē im Kolbila“. Paper presented at the 22. Afrikanistentag, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 17-18, 2016

2016 "Rot, schwarz, groß, klein. Eigenschaftskonzepte im Samba-Duru". Paper presented at the Linguistisches Kolloquium, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, February 4th, 2016

2012  "Verbalsystem des Beiya ein Überblick". Paper presented at the 20. Afrikanistentag, Universität zu Köln, May 30 - June 2, 2012.

2011  "Subjekt, Verb, Objekt oder kein Subjekt. Verbalsystem des Kolbila". Paper presented at the 50. StuTS, Universität Göttingen, November 16-20, 2011.

2011  "Einfach mal Nein sagen! Negation in drei Adamawasprachen des Norden Kameruns". Paper presented at the 49. StuTS, Universität Leipzig, June 1-5, 2011.

2010  "Mein Herz ist rot und deine Augen auch. Über den Ausdruck von Emotionen im Kolbila". Paper presented at the 19. Afrikanistentag, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, April 8-10, 2010.

2009  "Pronouns in Kolbila". Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6), Universität zu Köln, August 17-21, 2009.

 

Markraf, Holger W.

2013 "Le system verbal de la langue Mboum (Adamawa, Cameroun). Les verbes ‘aller’ et ‘venir’ dans les constructions des verbes en série." Paper presented at LADYRUS – Langues Dynamiques et Usages à la Département Franҫais, FALSH – Université de Ngaoundéré, Cameroun, December, 2013

2010  "Von Seriellen Verben und Auxiliaren. Die Grammatikalisierung von Bewegungsverben in Adamawasprachen". Paper presented at the 19th Afrikanistentag, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, April 8-10, 2010.