Wednesday, Feb 23rd 2022

14:15-15:45 Chair: Malte Zimmermann

14:15-14:45 Katharina Hartmann & Malte Zimmermann (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/M & Universität Potsdam): Introduction , including a short presentation of "TerraLing" by Eva Rosina, Valerie Wurm, and Frank Sode (Handout)

14:45-15:15 Constantine Kouankem (University of Ngaoundéré): Syntactic display and semantic functions of Medumba SVCs (Slides)

15:15-15:45 Hermann Keupdjio (McGill, Montréal): Long-distance dependencies and "complement" CPs in Bamileke Medumba (Handout)

15:45-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Chair: Malte Zimmermann

16:30-17:00 Himidan Hassen, Peter Jenks & Sharon Rose (UC Berkeley & UC San Diego): Topic and Focus in Tira (Slides)

17:00-18:00 Invited Talk 1: Vicki Carstens (UCONN Storrs): Addressee agreement in Bantu and Speech Act Projections (Handout)

Thursday, Feb 24rd 2022

9:00-10:30 Chair: Abigail Anne Bimpeh

9:00-9:30 Michael Diercks, Travis Major & Justine Sikuku (Pomona College, Claremont, USC & Moi University, Nairobi): Reanalyzing Bukusu "complementizer agreement" (Handout)

9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 2: Alassane Kiemtoré (University Stuttgart): The function of complementizers and its consequences for clausal embedding the case of ko in Jula (Handout)

10:30-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:45 Chair: Alassane Kiemtoré

11:15-11:45 Daniel Aremu (Goethe University Frankfurt/M): Subject and Non-subject wh-questions asymmetry in Akure (Slides)

11:45-12:15 Rozenn Guérois (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris): Subordinate clauses in tail-head linkage in Cuwabo narratives (Handout)

12:15-12:45 Claudius P. Kihara (Chuka University, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya): Cosubordination in Gikuyu

12:45-13:45 Coffee break

13:45-14:45 Chair: Vicky Carstens

13:45-14:15 John Gluckmann (Kansas University): Copulas and complementizers in Kinyamulenge (Slides)

14:15-14:45 Aron David Finholt (Kansas University): On Complementizer Choice in Swahili (Slides)

Friday, Feb 25rd 2022

11:45-14:15 Chair: Katharina Hartmann

11:45-12:15 Samuel Owoahene Acheampong (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/M): On Account of the resumption and trace effect in ex-situ wh-extraction in Likpakpaanl (Slides)

12:15-12:45 Samuel Alhassan Issah & Hasiyatu Abubakari (University of Education, Winneba & University of Ghana, Legon): Resumption as a repair mechanism in illicit movement: The case of Dagbani and Kusaal (Slides)

12:45-13:15 Hermann Keupdjio (McGill, Montréal): Resumption at the syntax-semantics interface: The case of Bamileke Medumba (Handout)

13:15-14:15 Invited Talk 3: Abigail Anne Bimpeh (LZAS Berlin): ‘Fake’ Logophors? The case of Ewe