Professional presentations

By Mahamane L. Abdoulaye

2019 "Aspect linguistiques et socio-linguistiques du tagdal: une synthèse de la littérature". Talk presented at the forum "la Langue et la Culture des Igdalan : un Ciment Social pour la Cohésion Sociale ». Niamey, Niger, 6 octobre 2019. [handout]

2014 "Shared features between Hausa and Zarma: A quest for areal features in Niger languages". Talk at the Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany, 2 December, 2014. [ abstract] [ handout]

2014 "Purposive, infinitive and auxiliary constructions in Zarma (Niger)". Talk presented at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, 17 November, 2014.[handout]

2014. “Unusual borrowing patterns in Niger languages”. 1st International Conference and Centenary Commemoration (ICCC) 2014 , 19-21 August, 2014, Sokoto State University, Sokoto, Nigeria.

2013 “Le causatif en ndà en zarma”. Communication on the occasion of The International Mother Language Day, 14th Edition, Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey, talk held on 23 February, 2013. (In collaboration with Malami Buba, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto)  [handout]

2010 “Hanyoyi na zamani na kyautata ayyukan fassara a Afirka [Modern tools for translation in African languages]”. Communication on the occasion of The International Mother Language Day, Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey, talk held on 27 February, 2010. [handout]

2007 “« Mahzoratus sa’a », un manuscrit ajami en hausa : Présentation et considérations d’ordre linguistique”. Communication at the Colloque International sur les Manuscrits Africains Comme Sources Historiques, Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey, 2007. [handout]

2005 “Développement de la valeur temporelle du Perfectif Relatif en hausa”. Communication at the Colloque sur les Outils et leurs Expressions en Zarma, Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey, 8 February, 2005.

2004 “Relative clauses in Hausa: A grammaticalization perspective”. Paper presented at the Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology, University of Antwerp, 14 May, 2004.

2004 “Forms and functions of the copula kèe and the scene-setting constructions in Hausa”. Paper presented at the Linguists Annual Day, Linguistics Society of Belgium, Brussels, 8 May, 2004.

2004 “Visibility and distance: A two-component system in Hausa spatial deixis”. Paper presented at the Department of African Studies, University of Leiden, 19 March, 2004.

2004 "Four uses of the relative marking in Hausa". Communication at the Syntax of the World's Languages conference, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/ University of Leipzig, Leipzig, 5-8 August, 2004. [handout here or here]

2000 “Dimensions of change in Hausa: Historical and sociolinguistic approaches”. Panel presentation at the Vereinigung für Deutschen Afrikanisten (VAD, Africa 2000 in Leipzig), 30 March-1st April 2000, Department of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. In panel with Joseph A. McIntyre, Nikolai Dobronravin, and Muhammad M. Munkaila.

2000 “Verhaltensweisen gegenüber dem Fremden in vier Sprachen der Sahelzone: Hausa, Kanuri, Songhai-Zarma, Fula [Attitudes towards foreigners in four languages of the Sahel zone]”. Communication at the Department of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, 1 February, 2000. (In collaboration with Elhadji Ari Awagana)

1999 “Verhaltensweisen gegenüber dem Fremden in vier Sprachen der Sahelzone: Hausa, Kanuri, Songhai-Zarma, Fula [Attitudes towards foreigners in four languages of the Sahel zone]”. Talk presented at the Fremdes in fremden Sprachen conference, 25-27 March 1999, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (In collaboration with Elhadji Ari Awagana)

1999 “Arguments vs. agreement markers: Preverbal pronouns in Hausa”. Communication at the Role and Reference Grammar Conference at the 1999 Linguistics Institute, 23-25 July 1999, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. (With the support of the Deutsche Forschung Gemeinschaft, DFG)

1999 “Grammaticalization of the verb zâa 'be going' to future in Hausa”. Communication at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization Conference, 17-19 June 1999, Institute for English and American Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany.

1998 “The grammaticalization of the Hausa verb za 'go' to future”. Talk presented at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (under the European Socrates Academic Exchange program)

1998 “Neue Ergebnisse der Forschungen zum Hausa [Advances in Hausa research]”. Communication at the Department of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany, 13 May, 1998. Series Interdisziplinäres Afrika-Colloquium.

1997 “The development of passive constructions in Hausa”. Communication at the Department of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany.

1997 “A model for representing tone in Linux systems”. Communication at the Workshop in Two-Level Morphology, 18-31 August 1997, Department of Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

1996 “Some sociolinguistic aspects of Hausa”. Communication at the Department of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany, 10 January, 1996. Series Interdisziplinäres Afrika-Colloquium.

1995 “The function of the Hausa grade 2 of the verb”. Talk presented at the Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, 22 May, 1995, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

1995 "Le haoussa au Niger : Aspects linguistiques et sociolinguistiques". Talk presented at the Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, 23 May, 1995, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

1992 “Two cases of nuclear cosubordination in Hausa”. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 27.29 March 1992, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.

1991 “Advancement and ascension to object in Hausa”. Paper presented at the 29th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, 6.10 March 1991, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

1989 “Self disclosure techniques for ethnographic elicitation”. Paper presented at the Niagara Linguistics Society Working Papers Colloquium, 14 April, 1989, SUNY at Buffalo. (In collaboration with Mathiot, Madeleine, C. Flury.Kashmanian, Monica Madeira, Renée Klotz)