11:30am - 12:15pm
Symposium

Focus Movement in the Low Focus Field in Grassfields Bantu

Paul Roger Bassong et Gratiana Linyor Ndamsah
Syntactic Cartography and African Languages
11:30am - 12:15pm
    Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Documents and media

    Speaker(s)

    Paul Roger Bassong

    Research engineer, General Linguistics Chair, Collège de France

    Gratiana Linyor Ndamsah

    University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon

    Events

    Some Introductory Remarks
    Luigi Rizzi

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:45am

    Sluicing-like Constructions in Igbo
    Mary Amaechi

    Symposium
    10:45 - 11:30am

    Focus Movement in the Low Focus Field in Grassfields Bantu
    Paul Roger Bassong et Gratiana Linyor Ndamsah

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:15pm

    How Language Contact Accounts for Mixed Typologies
    Salikoko S. Mufwene

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:45pm

    Evidence for Low Information Structure – The Case of West-African Language…
    Katharina Hartmann & Johannes Mursell

    Symposium
    2:45 - 3:30pm

    Focus Marking and Interpretation in Mabia Languages
    Daniel Aremu

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:15pm

    Clause Structure and Word Order Variation in Gude (Chadic)
    Edmond Biloa

    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:30pm

    The View from CiCewa (Bantu): Towards a Cartography of Passive Voice(s) an…
    Hilda Koopman

    Symposium
    5:30 - 6:15pm

    See also

    Luigi Rizzi, chair General Linguistics
    Syntactic Cartography and African Languages