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edited by Akinloye Ojo and Lioba Moshi
conference dates: April 17-20, 2008
conference location: University of Georgia
ISBN 978-1-57473-431-7 library binding
vi+178 pages
publication date: 2009
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA
Contents
Foreword
Akinloye Ojo and Lioba Moshi
v-vi (abstract or complete pdf)
Plenary
Why Do Descriptive Fieldwork? Dictionaries, Precedence and Verb Argument Order
Ronald P. Schaefer
1-9 (abstract or complete pdf)
Historical Linguistics
The Velar Ejective in Proto-Agaw
Paul D. Fallon
10-22 (abstract or complete pdf)
Morphology and Syntax
A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Final Vowels [i] and [a] in Luganda Deverbal Nouns
Franca Ferrari-Bridgers
23-31 (abstract or complete pdf)
The Expression of Tense and Aspect in Shona
Carmela Toews
32-41 (abstract or complete pdf)
Investigating the Shona Reflexive zvi
Dennis Ryan Storoshenko
42-55 (abstract or complete pdf)
Evidence for the Mirror Principle and Morphological Templates in Luganda Affix Ordering
Laura McPherson and Mary Paster
56-66 (abstract or complete pdf)
Object Marking in wh-questions in Bantu
Kristina Riedel
67-76 (abstract or complete pdf)
What Makes a Sheng Word Unique? Lexical Manipulation in Mixed Languages
Mokaya Bosire
77-85 (abstract or complete pdf)
Agree in the Functional Domain: Evidence from the Morphosyntax of Positive and Negative Imperatives in Standard Arabic
Usama Soltan
86-99 (abstract or complete pdf)
Comparing APPLs and Oranges: The Syntax of Shona Applicatives
Heather Bliss
100-109 (abstract or complete pdf)
Phonology and Phonetics
Shanjo and Fwe as Part of Bantu Botatwe: A Diachronic Phonological Approach
Koen Bostoen
110-130 (abstract or complete pdf)
On Nasals and Nasalization in Òko
Joseph Dele Atóyèbí
131-136 (abstract or complete pdf)
Singing in a Tone Language: Shona
Murray Schellenberg
137-144 (abstract or complete pdf)
Intrinsic F0 in Shona Vowels: A Descriptive Study
Ashleigh Gonzales
145-155 (abstract or complete pdf)
Sociolinguistics and Stylistics
Jèdí Ò M'Akòwé (Hemorrhoid Respects Not Even the Educated Elite): A Sociolinguistic-Stylistic Analysis of the Language of Yorùbá Herbal Medicine Practitioners
Adésolá Olátéjú
156-165 (abstract or complete pdf)
Linguistic Identity (re)Construction in Electoral Politics: The Case of 2005 Tanzanian Parliamentary Campaigns
Charles Bwenge
166-178 (abstract or complete pdf)