Call for Papers

**The call for papers is now CLOSED**

Important dates

Deadline for abstracts: 15th September 2019

Notification of acceptance for abstracts: 21st October 2019

Conference: 18-20th June 2020

Workshops: 20th June 2020

Call for papers

Abstracts are invited for presentations addressing any aspect of the analysis, description or comparison of Bantu languages.

Anonymous abstracts for the general session, posters and workshops should be no longer than one page A4, including examples and references. Participants may not be involved in no more than two abstracts for the general session, of which a maximum of one may be single-authored.

Oral presentations will last 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. When submitting your abstract, you will have a choice of a poster presentation .

All abstracts should be submitted as a Word or PDF file via EasyChair. On the EasyChair site please search for ‘Bantu8’. Alternatively, visit this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bantu8.

Workshops

Two thematic workshops are scheduled as part of the conference. Submissions to the workshops must follow the same guidelines as submissions for the general session. Please indicate which workshop you wish your talk to be considered for at the top of your abstract and file name (i.e. Workshop 1, Workshop 2). Abstracts for the workshops should also be submitted via EasyChair, following the same formatting guidelines. All the abstracts submitted to the workshop will be reviewed individually by the Programme Committee and the workshop conveners.

Workshop 1: Definiteness and specificity in languages with bare nouns: the case of Bantu (Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Jenneke van der Wal, Allen Asiimwe and Jochen Zeller)

Workshop 2: The structure and evolution of nominal expressions in Bantu languages (Larry M. Hyman and Mark Van de Velde)

Workshop 3: Continuity and divergence in the North-Western languages: Study of the relationships between Bantu and Bantoid (Rebecca Grollemund, Derek Nurse and John Watters)

Workshop 4: Towards a decolonial linguistics (Kristina Riedel and Hannah Gibson)