Please contact me for handouts from the talks listed below: cgreen10 -AT- syr.edu , or find them on my Academia page HERE.
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Christopher R. Green. Nasal deletion in Class 9/10 and its effect on augment use. 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Athens, GA. April 20, 2008.
Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. Syncope in Bamana. 14th Annual Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, Minneapolis, MN. October 17-19, 2008.
Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. Syncope in Bamana: In support of a Split-Margin Approach to the syllable. 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Champaign, IL. April 9-11, 2009.
Christopher R. Green. Paradigm uniformity in Luwanga derived nouns. 6th World Congress on African Linguistics, Cologne, Germany. August 17-21, 2009.
Daniel A. Dinnsen, Judith A. Gierut, Michele L. Morrisette, Christopher R. Green & Ashley W. Farris-Trimble. Chickens kick 'n' chew, but tigers do too: The interacting error patterns problem. 15th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, Bloomington, IN. October 9-11, 2009.
Christopher R. Green, Stuart Davis, Boubacar Diakite & Karen Baertsch. Margins and metrical structure: Constraining minimization in Colloquial Bamana. 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. May 6-8, 2010.
Christopher R. Green & Stuart Davis. Avoiding multiple complexities in the prosodic word: Minimization in Colloquial Bamana. 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK. May 20-22, 2010.
Michael C. Dow & Christopher R. Green. On the seemingly opaque morphophonology of Najamba (Dogon). 16th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology. Evanston, IL. October 29-31, 2010.
Christopher R. Green. An unexpected role for the prosodic word domain in Bamana compounding: Revisiting compacité tonale. 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, UK. May 19-21, 2011.
Christopher R. Green. Segmental and tonal feet in Bamana(Bambara): Evidence for uniform structure. 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. College Park, MD. June 10-12, 2011.
Christopher R. Green, Jonathan C. Anderson & Samuel G. Obeng. Tonal melodies in Susu nominal constructions. 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. College Park, MD. June 10-12, 2011.
Christopher R. Green. Boundary-triggered tone spreading in the prosodic word domain: New insights into compacité tonale in Bambara. 3rd Colloque Mandé, Paris, France. September 14-17,2011.
Christopher R. Green. A foot-based account of French loanword adaptation into Bambara. 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. New Orleans, LA. March 15-17, 2012.
Christopher R. Green. Tonal melody assignment in Arabic loans into Bambara: Prominence vs. tonal markedness. 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Stockholm, Sweden. August 29-September 1, 2012.
Christopher R. Green & Michael R. Marlo. Tonal representations in Wanga verbs. 10th Old World Conference on Phonology. Istanbul, Turkey. January 16-19, 2013.
Christopher R. Green. Superadditivity effects in Bambara. 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Washington, DC. March 6-8, 2013.
Christopher R. Green & Jennifer Hill Boutz. Effects of weight incongruity on tonal melody assignment: Resolving prominences in Arabic loanword incorporation into Bambara. CUNY Conference on Weight in Phonology and Phonetics. New York, NY. January 16-17, 2014.
Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. One tone per word is not enough: Revisiting diagnostics for Somali wordhood. 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Lawrence, KS. April 17-19, 2014.
Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. On the realization, representation, and prosodic function of Somali topic-marking. 12th Old-World Conference in Phonology. Barcelona, Spain. January 28-30, 2015.
Michelle E. Morrison & Christopher R. Green. Interface domains in Somali verbs. 43th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics. Washington, DC. February 2015.
Christopher R. Green & Michael R. Marlo. Wanga verb phrase tonology. 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Eugene, OR. April 2015.
Kristopher J. Ebarb, Christopher R. Green, Michael R. Marlo, David Odden & Mary Paster. An introduction to Luyia tone. 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Eugene, OR. April 2015.
Christopher R. Green & Michelle E. Morrison. The shortcomings of subject marking in Somali. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Washington, DC. January 2016.
Christopher R. Green & Evan Jones. A first look at the morphophonology of Marka (Af-Ashraaf) and a comparison to its neighbors. 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berkeley, CA. March 2016.
Wendell Kimper, Kristine Yu, Will Bennett & Christopher R. Green. Acoustic correlates of harmonic classes in Somali. 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berkeley, CA. March 2016.
Christopher R. Green & Michael R. Marlo. On the expression of Melodic H in Wanga: (In)variable targets and tonal interactions. Bantu 6. Helsinki, Finland. June 2016.
Christopher R. Green. Towards a typology of `tonal compactness' in Mande. 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Bloomington, IN. March 2017.
Michael C. Dow, Christopher R. Green & Ryan Hendrickson. Elucidating Dogon prosodic structures: the case of lateral `flip-frop' in Beni (Dogon). 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Bloomington, IN. March 2017.
Christopher R. Green Headedness and prosodic restructuring in Mande. 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. East Lansing, MI. March 2018.
Christopher R. Green & Abbie E. Hantgan-Sonko. Word-level ATR symmetry: Insights from Bondu So vowel harmony. GLOW 41. April 2018.
Christopher R. Green. Head and spread: Towards a unified account of Manding tone. WOCAL 9. August 2018.
Christopher R. Green & Abbie E. Hantgan-Sonko. Word minimality and contextual moraicity in Bondu-so sonorants. WOCAL 9. August 2018.
Christopher R. Green & Michael R. Marlo. Something old, something new, something borrowed, plus a few: On the origin of Wanga noun tone melodies. ACAL 50. May 2019.
Christopher R. Green & Milkatu Garba. Taking stock of Mbat (Jarawa) grammar, Part 1: Verb extensions, TAM, and pronoun inflection. ACAL 50. May 2019.
Maria Konoshenko & Christopher R. Green. The development of tonal head markers in Mande compounds: Between phonology and grammar. 19th International Morphology Meeting. Vienna, Austria. February 2020.
Elizabeth A. Elton & Christopher R. Green. On the tonal system of Atiavi Aŋlɔ, an Ewe variety with five tone levels. ACAL 51. [cancelled due to COVID-19]
Christopher R. Green & Michael R. Marlo. Stem tone neutralization in Wanga verb tone: a path to predictability? 8th International Conference on Bantu Languages. Essex, UK. [cancelled due to COVID-19]
Soyoung Kim & Christopher R. Green. Copular constructions in Mbat: Grammatical and classificatory considerations. ACAL 52. Gainesville, FL. April 2021. [via Zoom]
Christopher R. Green. Minimality, margins, and metrical structure: More on the mora in Somali. ACAL 52. Gainesville, FL. April 2021. [via Zoom]
Christopher R. Green & Rebecca Grollemund. On the place of Jarawan among Bantoid languages. First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics. Hamburg, Germany. March 2022. [via Zoom]
*Katrina Smith & Christopher R. Green. Tone alternations in Maay and the origins of its prosodic system. ACAL 53. San Diego, CA. April 2022. [via Zoom]
*Ben Yamsuan, *Aline Cunia, & Christopher R. Green. Grammatical tone in Dholuo possessives. ACAL 54. Storrs, CT. June 2023.
Abbie E. Hantgan, Christopher R. Green, & Leonardo Contreras Roa. Moraic sonorants and metrification: an unexpected role for [ATR] in Bondu So verbs. ACAL 54. Storrs, CT. June 2023.
Christopher R. Green. (Re)examining the Jarawan languages of Nigeria: description, documentation, and classification. 2023 International Conference on Indigenous Language Documentation, Education, and Revitalization. Bloomington, IN. October 2023.
Christopher R. Green & Amanda Brown. Implementing student-centered language diversity in linguistics classes. LSA annual meeting. New York, NY. January 2024.