PROGRAMME WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
REGISTRATION VISA & TRAVEL
ACCOMMODATION | ENTERTAINMENT | TRANSPORT
TO DO IN CAPE TOWN MAPS
Language variation, contact, and change: South African perspectives workshop
Monday 4 September 2017
Location: J.S. Gericke Library Auditorium, Stellenbosch University
http://library.sun.ac.za/en-za/Pages/Home.aspx
08:45 – 09:00
|
Welcome
|
09:00 – 09:40
|
Frenette Southwood (Stellenbosch University), Heather Brookes (University of Cape Town), Tessa Dowling (University of Cape Town), Helena Oosthuizen (Stellenbosch University), Michelle Pascoe (University of Cape Town) and the Southern African CDI team
Addressing the challenges that language variation poses for fair child assessment |
09:40 – 10:20
| Marie van Heukelum (Stellenbosch University) & Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge & Stellenbosch University)
Raising NEG: A speaker/hearer-oriented account of the attritional (in)vulnerability of certain interface phenomena |
10:20 – 10:50
| Sarah Nakijoba (Stellenbosch University)
Pragmatic markers in contact situations: a consideration of L1 Luganda-L2 English pragmatic markers |
10:50 – 11:20
| Coffee Break
|
11:20 – 12:00
| Charlyn Dyers (UWC)
One township, many codes: languaging, vulnerability and survival |
12:00 – 13:00
| Bertus van Rooy (North-West University) & Haidee Kruger (Macquarie University & North-West University)
Covert and overt cross-linguistic influence on South African English in interaction with language proficiency |
13:00 – 14:00
|
Lunch
|
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Jac Conradie (University of Johannesburg)
Afrikaans: from deflection to new inflection |
| 14:40 – 15:20 | Menan du Plessis (Stellenbosch University)
Puzzles presented by Khoisan languages, with particular reference to morpho-syntactic features shared across seemingly unrelated families in southern Africa: evidence of areal diffusion, or of deep-seated relationships? |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | Felix Banda (UWC)
The Changing Morpho-Phonology of Bantu Languages in Contact: Bemba and Nyanja |
| 16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 16:30 – 17:30 |
Raj Mesthrie (UCT)
Syntactic convergences towards a southern African linguistic area? |
