Time (BST)

AUGUST 4 – DAY 1

7-8

Registration (hubs only)

8-8.15

Opening

8.15-9.15

KEYNOTE:
Reading methodologies for uncooperative orthographies (Trudell, Klaas)

9.15-9.30

Break

SESSION 1A: ORTHOGRAPHY & WRITING

SESSION 1B: SYNTAX AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE

9.30-10

Developing an orthography
for Kufa (Evans, Kafi,
Carroll, Mongash, Liu, Davey, Mullan, Li)

Word order in languages of the Lotuxo sub-group of Eastern Nilotic (Moodie)

10-10.30

Lexical Phonology and the Naba Orthography (Scherrer)

Attitude particles, attitude modifiers and ideophones of the Fur language (Ibrahim)

10.30-11

Writing auxiliary verbs in unified Dinka (Malek, Myhill)

Making use of the D-layer in Dholuo (Dees)

11-12

Lunch

SESSION 2A: NUBIAN PANEL 1 (Chair: Angelika Jakobi)

SESSION 2B: LEXICOGRAPHY

12-12.30

Creating stereotypes and negatives indexes of the Nubian language in Egypt (Taha)

Methodology roundtable
with:

1) Living Dictionaries (Anderson, Daigneault)

2) Rapid Word Collection (Warfel, Gilley)

3) Nuer Lexicon (Bond, Reid, Monich, Baerman)

60mins for the 3 presentations +
30mins Q&A

12.30-13

Introducing the comparative Nubian dictionary (van Gerven Oei)

13-13.30

Cøllø (Shilluk) in South
Sudan and Nobíin Nubian
in Sudan: How do the teaching situations differ? (Kur, Papiti,
Yolong, Bell)

13.30-14

Break

SESSION 3A: MORPHOSYNTAX

SESSION 3B: NUBIAN PANEL 2 (Chair: Vincent van Gerven Oei)

14-14.30

Verbs and noun incorporation along the Ethio-Sudan Borderlands (Ahland)

Tone in Andaandi Nubian
(Jaeger)

14.30-15

Re-focalization in Songhay diachronic morphosyntax (Heath, Souag)

Three particles in Andaandi Nubian interrogative clauses: [aba], [sen], and [on] (Hussein,
Jaeger)

Time (BST)

AUGUST 5 – DAY 2

SESSION 1A

SESSION 1B: NUBIAN PANEL 3 (Chair: Vincent van Gerven Oei)

8-8.30

Some linguistic factors considered in the development of Ogiek orthography (Oduor)

Reduplication in Taglennaa (Gulfan)

8.30-9

The interaction of tone and vowel length in Bor South Dinka (Blum)

The Tagle copula –nɖ
(Ibrahim, Jakobi)

9-9.30

Meet fellow linguists investigating Nilo-Saharan languages (randomized breakout rooms with 3-4 people on Zoom)

9.30-10

Break

10-11.30

WORKSHOP: Encouraging local agency in children’s storybook development and use: African Storybook (Wepukhulu)

11.30-12.30

Lunch

SESSION 2A: MODIFIERS

SESSION 2B: ORTHOGRAPHY & WRITING

12.30-13

Modifiers in Gwama (Gebeyehu)

A report on language vitality of Reel (Nhial)

13-13.30

Modifiers in the Fur language of the Sudan (Ahmed)

Documenting language structures for language writers (Stirtz)

13.30-14

Break

SESSION 3: LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN GRAMMAR

14-14.30

Intransitive verb classes in Shilluk: morphophonology and semantics (Gilley, Miller-Naudé)

14.30-15

The ‘derivational’ effect of grammatical aspect on stative roots in Maa (Payne)

Time (BST)

AUGUST 6 – DAY 3

SESSION 1

8-8.30

Language policy and planning for Nilo-Saharan languages (Spronk)

8.30-9

Experiences in Kakuma and Melbourne with developing literacy resources in Nilotic languages (Moodie, Hajek, Schuepbach, Billington)

9-9.30

Buried in history: rediscovering John M. Weatherby’s Soo data for linguistics (Beer)

9.30-10

Break

SESSION 2: MORPHOSYNTAX

10-10.30

Majang Qualifiers – Stative verbs or adjectives? (Joswig)

10.30-11

Pronominal paradigm in Songhay and Saharan (Souag)

11-11.30

Alienable and inalienable possession in Nuer (Monich)

11.30-12.30

Lunch

SESSION 3A: NUMBER MARKING ON NOUNS

SESSION 3B: ASSOCIATED MOTION

12.30-13

Number marking in the Maban languages and implications for classification (Blench)

Datooga directionals (Bruckhaus, Kießling)

13-13.30

On the typological variation in tripartite number systems of Nilo-Saharan languages (Junglas)

Associated motion as an applicative in Nuer (Reid, Bond)

13.30-14.30

KEYNOTE: From phonology to orthography: A participatory approach (Kutsch Lojenga)

14.30-15

Closing