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TENTATIVE LIST OF SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATION TITLES

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

Deo Kawalya: Modality in Ugandan Bantu languages, and lessons for future researchers

Thera Crane: Multilingual acquisition and use of modal expressions in South Africa

Bloom Ström & Crane – Final conjoint forms and speaker commitment

Chipanda - The roles of particle shí in Kémunasukuma dialect of Kisukuma

Eaton & Mtanga –  The expression of necessity in Vwanji

Gluckman & Vumilia – Negative Ability Modality in Kisubi [ONLINE]

Gray – Combining ability and possibility in Bungu 

Kaoneka & Kanijo – The Modality System of Shambala

Kihara – The Expression of Modality in Gĩkũyũ (E51)

Lusekelo – Mechanisms for the Expression of Modality in Kinyakyusa (Bantu M31) 

Mberamihigo – From main verb to modality in Kirundi (JD62) 

Ngabonziza – Modality expression in Kinyarwanda: Exploration of morphosyntactic internal variation of names  [ONLINE] 

Riedel, Gibson, Marten & Taji – Modality and volitionality in the grammaticalization of Swahili ‑weza

Veselovsky – Subjunctive-marked modal subordination in Bantu [ONLINE]

Wald – On the evolution of the Swahili connective mpaka ‘until’ from temporal sequencer to modal necessity: discourse pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and stylistic aspects, and beyond. [ONLINE/IN ABSENTIA]

Zahran – Modality in the languages of the Lower Zambezi (N30-40, S10)

Charwi & Bernander – Swahili loans within the Kuria modal domain

Devos, de Schryver & Nabirye – The subjunctive in Swahili: core deontic, peripheral epistemic as well as non-modal uses. Insights from a historical Swahili corpus.