Internationaler Workshop Language contact in Ethiopia

Veranstalter: SFB 295, Teilprojekte C.1/C.3

Language contact in Ethiopia: Examples from Cushitic, Omotic and Semitic languages
Venue: Ausstellungsraum des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (Alte Mensa)

Thursday, December 13
10:00 – 10:30 Walter Bisang and Joachim Crass (Mainz): Zones of convergence and the case of
Ethiopia
10:30 – 11:00 Christian Rapold (Nijmegen) and Silvia Zaugg-Coretti (Zürich): Gurage features
all over the place? A view from Yemsa and Benchnon
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Graziano Sava (Napoli) and Sophia Thubauville (Mainz): The heterogeneity of
the Ongota lexicon as the result of cultural contact
12:00 – 12:30 Maarten Mous (Leiden): Distribution of systematic properties of verbal
derivation in Ethiopia – Does contact play a role?
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 Girma A. Demeke (Addis Ababa): Does Amharic originate from a pidgin?
14:30 – 15:00 Andreas Wetter (Mainz): Persistence and innovation in Argobba
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 Sascha Völlmin (Zürich): Chaha vs. Gumär – Two languages or two dialects of a
single language?
16:00 – 16:30 Ronny Meyer (Mainz): The verb ‘to say’ in Ethio-Semitic languages

Friday, December 14
09:30 – 10:00 Joachim Crass (Mainz): Converb constructions and interrogative cleft sentences
in Libido. Peculiarities of two areal features?
10:00 – 10:30 Yvonne Treis (Köln): Kambaata’s polysemous ‑ ga morpheme in a contactlinguistic
perspective
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Debela Goshu (Oslo/Addis Ababa): Auxiliaries in Oromo – Grammaticalization
or contact-induced phenomenon?
11:30 – 12:00 Ongaye Oda (Leiden/Addis Ababa): The spread of the punctual derivation
(doing something once) in the Lowland East Cushitic languages
12:00 – 12:30 Silvia Zaugg-Coretti (Zürich): The morpheme ‑ tu as a focus marker in Yemsa
(Omotic) and Oromo (Cushitic)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 Christian Rapold (Nijmegen): Contact between Benchnon and Dizoid
14:30 – 15:00 Binyam Sisay (Oslo/Addis Ababa): The element ‑ (k)ko in East Ometo – Copula
and/or focus?
15:00 – 15:30 Tolemariam Fufa (Leiden/Addis Ababa): The presence of the causative
morpheme ‑ iss‑ in Shakkinoono and ‑ icc‑ in Kafinoonoo in terms of language
contact
15:30 Final discussion