Events
Date and Venue: October 29, 2021, online conference held at SOAS University of London
Members' presentation
Makoto Furumoto (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), Nico Nassenstein (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), and Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Demonstrative systems in different Swahili varieties: Investigating cross-varietal developments"
Date and Venue: June 26-27, 2021, online conference
Member's presentation
Yuka Makino (JSPS research fellow / ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Lexical semantics and predication typology in Lamba verbs"
Date and Venue: June 7-12, 2021, online conference held at Leiden University
Members' presentation
Makoto Furumoto (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"A synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Kimakunduchi final vowel"
Sayaka Kutsukake (JSPS research fellow / ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Examining flexible language practices in Tanzania from a translanguaging perspective"
Nancy Kula (University of Essex) and Yuka Makino (JSPS research fellow / ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Anterior and Perfective in Lamba and Bemba"
Colin Reilly (University of Essex), Tracey Costley (University of Essex), Hannah Gibson (University of Essex), Nancy Kula (University of Essex), Joseph Mwansa (University of Zambia), Gastor Mapunda (University of Dar es Salaam) and Mompoloki Bagwasi (University of Botswana)
"Evaluating evidence and strategies for developing multilingual language-in-education policies in Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and Lutz Marten (SOAS, University of London)
Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
"Inchoative-Causative verb alternations in Swahili"
Date and Venue: June 2-4, 2021, online conference held at University of Essex
Members' presentation
Makoto Furumoto (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"On the functional anomaly of the Kimakunduchi negative vowel copied form"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo Univeristy of Foreign Studies)
"we- in Uru (E622D): birth of a focus-sensitive aspectual marker in Chaga"
Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
"Non-locative uses of Locative enclitics in Herero (R31)"
Date and Venue: May 22-23, 2021, online conference held at Hiroshima City University
Member's presentation
Sayaka Kutsukake (JSPS research fellow / ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"A discussion on the CCM’s current Swahili promotion policy in Tanzania ―An approach from critical discourse analysis―"
Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"Prosody of Xitsonga pronouns"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"To what extent is the structural variation of Bantu languages ‘regular’? A current approach of Bantu micro-typology"
Date and Venue: May 12 and 26, 2021, online conference
Member's presentation
Makoto Furumoto (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“A synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Kimakunduchi final vowel”
Kyoung-Won Jeong (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Micro-parametric research on cross-Bantu phonological microvariation: a test case in Swati"
Yuka Makino (JSPS research fellow / ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Contrastive analysis on the local variation of TAM expressions in M40 and M50″
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Morphosyntactic local variation in Chaga”
Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
“Properties of the subject in Bantu languages”
Date and Venue: January 19, 2021, webinar
Members' presentation
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo Univeristy of Foreign Studies)
2020 conference of the Korean Association of African Studies
Date and Venue: December 4, 2020, online conference
Members' presentation
Yuko Abe (Lanzhou University), Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda) and Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"A Morphosyntactic Survey of Microvariation of Southern Bantu languages: A pilot case of collaborative linguistic research in African contexts"
The 108th meeting of Kijutsuken (Descriptive study group)
Date and Venue: November 28, 2020, online conference
Members' presentation
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / University of Essex)
"The topic-referring demonstrative: Grammaticalisation of the demonstrative in the Kimakunduchi dialect of Swahili"
The 107th meeting of Kijutsuken (Descriptive study group)
Date and Venue: October 24, 2020, online conference
Members' presentation
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / University of Essex)
"On the grammaticalisation from demonstrative to topic marker in the Kimakunduchi dialect of Swahili"
Date and Venue: May 23-24, 2020, online conference held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Members' presentation
Yuko Abe (Tokyo Woman's Christian University)
"Microvariation of Tense-Aspect Markers in Bantu"
Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"Voicing and phonation in African languages using Electroglottograph"
Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
"What is Bantu Microvariation?"
Date and Venue: March 2-3, 2020, at Art Gallery, University of Venda
Data archive site: https://renelda.aa-ken.jp/
Date and Venue: February 19, 2020, at room 304, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Members' presentation
Ethelbert E. Kari (University of Botswana) and Budzani Gabanamotse-Mogara (University of Botswana)
"The State of Language Documentation in Botswana"
Date and Venue: November 29 - December 1, 2019, at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Members' presentation
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / University of Essex)
"On the differences and similarities between Zanzibar Swahili dialects"
Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto Sangyo University)
"Kinship terminology in Kivu Swahili"
Sayaka Kutsukake (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"‘Lack of knowledge’ or an unexamined perspective? Shifting language attitudes towards community languages in Tanzania"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"How Sheng has been manipulated and recognized"
Presentation at pre-workshop session "Bantu day: Discussions on linguistic features from the Bantu area"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"*-ag and related TAM forms in Chaga Habitual, Future, and Focus marking?"
Date and Venue: November 28-30, 2019, at The University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Members' presentation
Kristina Riedel (University of the Free State) and Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"DP-internal word order and penultimate lengthening in Bantu languages"
BARAZA: Swahili studies conference 2019
Date and Venue: October 12, 2019, at SOAS University of London
Members' presentation
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / University of Essex)
"A history of Kimakunduchi description"
Date and Venue: September 28, 2019, at Seisen University
Members' presentation
Michinori Suzuki (International Christian University) and Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"Perception of a non-salient place contrast in Tshivenda by Xitsonga speakers"
The 49th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Date and Venue: August 28, 2019, at Leiden University
Members' presentation
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / University of Essex)
"Come to the future, come to the past: grammaticalisation of Kimakunduchi 'come'"
Date and Venue: August 5-9, 2019, Melbourne, Australia
Members' presentations
Crous M. Hlungwani (University of Venda) and Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"Phonetics of modal and breathy nasals in Xitsonga"
Michinori Suzuki (International Christian University) and Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"Production and perception of dental vs. alveolar contrast in TshiVenda"
Date and Venue: June 27-28, 2019, at ILCAA
Members' presentation
Chrispina Alphonce (University of Dodoma)
"The attitude of speakers of Southern Cushitic languages of Tanzania"
"The influence of Bantu-Southern Cushitic contact in numeral systems"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Where Chaga differs from typical Eastern Bantu: possible influence from contact with non-Bantu?"
Date and Venue: May 18-19, 2019, at Kyoto Seika University
Members' presentation
Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda) and Michinori Suzuki (International Christian University)
"Perception of acoustic and visual cues of place contrast in TshiVenda nasals"
Yuko Abe (Tokyo Woman's Christian University) and Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Microvariation in Bantu languages"
Date and Venue: February 22-26, 2019, at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Date and Venue: 23rd January, 2019, at room 302, ILCAA, Tokyo Univeristy of Foreign Studies
Members' presentations
Andrew Harvey (ILCAA Junior Research Fellow / JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
"Ihanzu: an initial profile of a Bantu language of the Tanzanian Rift Valley"
Julius Taji (University of Dar es Salaam)
"Morphosyntactic properties of subjects in Chiyao"
Lutz Marten (ILCAA Research Fellow / SOAS, University of London)
"Morphosyntactic comparison of 19 East African Bantu languages"
Kongamano la pili la kimataifa la Kiswahili
Date and Venue: December 13, 2018, at Ukumbi wa Sheikh Idris Abdul Wakil, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Member's presentation
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University)
"Perfective and perfect in Kimakunduchi"
Date and Venue: November 29 - December 1, 2018, at Research Conference Centre, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa
Member's presentation
Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda), Jozi Joseph Thwala (University of Venda) and Haruya Ogawa (International Christian University)
"Phonetics of modal and breathy plosives in SiSwati"
Date and Venue: November 19-23, 2018, at Ghent University, Campus Boekentoren/Book Tower
Member's presentation
Yukiko Morimoto (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
"Proto-Bantu Subject and Topic"
Date and Venue: November 2-4, 2018, at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
Member's presentation [Invited Talk]
Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"Word order and agreement in nominals: case studies from Xitsonga and Kiribati"
[Host: Dr. Michael Barrie] (Collaboration with Kristina Riedel, Cédric Patin and Crous Hlungwani)
International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TIE2018)
Date and Venue: October 11-13, 2018, at Göteborgs Universiteit
Member's presentation
Seunghun J. Lee (Internatioanl Christian University / University of Venda) and Cédric Patin (University of Lille)
"Prosody of question elements in two Bantu languages: Shingazidja and Xitsonga"
Date and Venue: September 15-16, 2018, at Okinawa International University
Member's presentation
Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda) and Haruya Ogawa (International Christian University)
"Acoustics of non-modal consonants in SiSwati "
Date and Venue: August 25-28, 2018, at Mohammed V University – Rabat, Morocco
Members' presentations
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University) and Yasunori Takahashi (Kobe University)
"Kimakunduchi: a dialect of Swahili without word-stress"
Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto Sangyo University)
"Tone in Kiga Nominals as compared to its Neighboring Nkore Tone"
Sayaka Kutsukake (Osaka University)
"Language Policy in Education of Tanzania: The Gap between Globalization and Multilingualism"
Yuka Makino (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University)
"The distinction of three 'Near Past' forms in Lamba"
Yukiko Morimoto (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
"Cross-Bantu Variation in the Properties of Subjects"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"*-ag in Kilimanjaro Bantu: its diachronic path and implications to micro-typology"
Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University) and Judith Nkayiza
"Multiple object constructions in Ganda (Bantu E15)"
Date and Venue: July 9-11, 2018, at The River Club, Mowbray, Cape Town
Members' presentations
Yuko Abe (Tokyo Woman's Christian University)
"Verb Categories in Bende (F.12)"
Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto Sangyo University)
"On the homology of the object relative construction and the subordinate l form in Nyoro verb conjugation"
Yuka Makino (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University)
"Three 'Anterior-like' forms in Lamba"
Papers presented in the Workshop co-organized by Daisuke Shinagawa and Nico Nassenstein, "Variation in Swahili: Micro-typology, Sociolinguistic Diversification and Language Contact"
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University)
"On the origin of the Kimakunduchi aspect marker me-"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Notes on the distribution of relative constructions in Sheng: with special reference to -enye RC"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and Nico Nassenstein (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
"Toward a 'state of the art': Variation in Swahili, current approaches, trends and directions"
Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University) and Kumiko Miyazaki ()
"Exclusive particles ‘only’ in Swahili: tu and peke yake"
Date and Venue: July 2-6, 2018, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre
Members' presentations
M. Crous Hlungwani (University of Venda) and Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"Yes-No question intonation in Xitsonga"
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University)
"The contracted demonstrative as a topic-marking particle in Kimakunduchi"
Sayaka Kutsukake (Osaka University)
"Sociolinguistic Change with Language Contact in Tanzanian Ethnic Communities"
Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda)
"An acoustic and articulatory study of depressors in Xitsonga"
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Typological variation of negative particles in Chaga"
Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
"Exclusive focus sensitive particles in Herero (Bantu R31)"
Date and Venue: June 23-24, 2018, at the University of Tokyo (Hongo)
Member's presentation
Yuka Makino (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University)
"Anterior and Property predication in Lamba (Bantu M54)"
Seunghun J. Lee (International Christian University / University of Venda), Seth Tshithukhe (University of Venda), and Michinori Suzuki (International Christian University)
"An acoustic study of dental vs. alveolar contrast in Tshivenda nasals"
Date and Venue: May 26-27, 2018, at Hokkaido University
Members' presentation
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"The fluidity in Sheng: its evolving social status and structural hybridity"
Makoto Furumoto (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University)
"On the emphatic copula in the Kimakunduchi dialect of Swahili"
Yuka Makino (JSPS research fellow / Osaka University)
"A study of a TA morpheme a- in Lamba"