Meetings
Meeting 5
Date: (Mon-Tue) March 11-12, 2024
Location: SH3176 (Solomon Mahlangu Building, former Senate Hall) @ Witwatersrand Univ.
[Note: meet us at 8:45 am in front of the Starbucks on the ground floor of the building]
Convener: Kristina Riedel
Time: 9 am - 4 pm March 11; 9 am - 1 pm March 12
Participants:
Lee, Bennett, Furumoto, Hlungwani, Riedel, Pretorius, Masilela (in person);
Shinagawa, Zeller (Onine)
Program and other practical matters
[LINK to the program and presentations]
Research talks
Zeller, J. "Strong quantificational readings and word order in Zulu"
Barrie, M., Lee, S. J. & Hlungwani, C. "Locative Inversion and Passivization in Xitsonga"
Furumoto, M. "Narrative Collection of the Swahili dialects in Zanzibar"
Bennett, W. "Stem edges in Xhosa"
Shinagawa, D. "Perspectives on the study of prosody-syntax interface in southern Bantu languages: building a platform for a typological investigation of cross-linguistic variation"
Riedel, K. & Lee, S.J. "Investigating DPs in Southern Bantu"
Preliminary Reports
Masilela, PJ & Lee, SJ "DP prosody in Southern Ndebele"
Khulisile, N., Lee, S.J., Ida, H. & Yanagida, T. "Nasals and depressors in SiSwati"
Pretorius, R., Omphemetse, M. & Lee, S. J. "Preliminary report of Tswana data"
Lee, SJ, Makha-Ntlaloe, M., Makgopa, M., Bennett, W. & Netshisaulu, N. "Report from Sesotho, Sepedi, Venda and Xhosa"
Meeting 4
Date: (Mon) Sep 11, 2023 @ Online Zoom
Time: 10 am - 1 pm SA time, 4 pm - 8 pm Japan time
Participants: Lee, Bennett, Furumoto, Hlungwani, Riedel, Shinagawa, Zeller
Program and other practical matters
[LINK to the program and presentations]
Riedel & Lee. Southern Bantu DP questionnaire
Bennett. Clicks in isiXhosa (tentative)
Shinagawa & Lee. Nominal tonal patterns of Nguni languages (isiXhosa, isiNdebele, siSwati)
Lee & Furumoto. Nominal tonal patterns of Sotho languages (Northern Sotho, Sesotho)
Lee & Lee. Utilizing MFA results in analyzing Bantu language data
Meeting 3
Date: March 16-17, 2023 @ Johannesburg
Participants: Lee, Bennett, Furumoto, Hlungwani, Riedel, Shinagawa, Zeller
Program and other practical matters
[LINK to the program] (members only)
[LINK to presentations] (members only)
Day 1 (10 am - 6 pm, March 16)
Lee, Seunghun J. (ICU & UniVen) "Overview of JSAntu project in AY2022"
Lee, Sihyeon (SNU) & Lee, Seunghun J. (ICU & UniVen) "Montreal Forced Aligner and its applicability to Southern Bantu languages"
Lee, Seunghun J. (ICU & UniVen) & Makoto Furumoto (TUFS) "Tone and Penultimate Lengthening in South African Bantu languages: an overview"
Hlungwani, Crous (UniVen) "Instrument Subjects with change of state verbs in Xitsonga"
Riedel, Kristina (UFS) "Clause chaining and complex verbal constructions in Sesotho"
Zeller, Jochen (KZNU) "Possessor Raising in Zulu"
Bennett, William (Rhodes) "Contiguity theory, prosodic phrasing, and wh placement in Xhosa"
Day 2 (10 am - 5 pm, March 17)
Shinagawa, Daisuke (TUFS) "Fricatives in Bantu languages"
Lee, Seunghun J. (ICU & UniVen) "Match as an interface constraint"
Lee, Seunghun J. (ICU & UniVen) "Building archives for Bantu languages and utilizing archival data"
Lee, Seunghun J. (ICU & UniVen) "Planning of JSAntu project in AY2023-AY2026"
General Discussion
Meeting 2
Date: June 9, 2022 @ Blantyre, Malawi (during Bantu 9)
Participants: Lee, Riedel, Shinagawa
Meeting 1
Date: January 19th, 2022 @ online (Zoom)
Participants: Lee, Bennett, Furumoto, Hlungwani, Riedel, Shinagawa, Zeller
