Date | 7 December 2023 Location | Paris Presentation by Maarten Mous: “South Cushitic – Kalenjin contact and itsrelevance for East-Africa’s history” Presentation by Ahmed Sosal: “Reconstructing Proto Eastern Omo-Tana root”. More information.
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Séminaire du LLACAN
Date | 29 November 2023 Location | Paris Presentation by Ahmed Sosal: “A reconstruction of selected Omo-Tana root extensions”. More information.
26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Date | 4-8 September 2023 Location | Heidelberg Presentations “The classification of South Cushitic” (Maarten Mous). “Secondary lateral obstruents in South Cushitic and their significance for the linguistic history of East Africa” (Christan Rapold).
Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) 2023
Date | 28-30 August 2023 Location | Leiden Presentation by Giorgia Zantei and Maarten Mous on “Changes in kinship terminology in the Tanzanian Rift Valley”.
LAEA-3 Conference (Language Association of East Africa)
Date | 15-16 August 2023 Location | Kampala Presentation by Maarten Mous on Cushitic influence on East African cattle vocabulary.
Rift Valley Network webinar
Date | 14 June 2023 Location | online Maarten Mous and Christian Rapold – Cushitic–Nilotic Contacts: Tanzanian Cushitic and Kalenjin
Somali Workshop III
Date | 12-13 June 2023 Location | Gothenburg Presentation by Ahmed Sosal: Topics in the phonological reconstruction of Eastern Omo-Tana.
LHEAf Day
Date | 10 June 2023 Location | Leiden On the 10th of June, 2023, our project received Amani Lusekelo (University of Dar es Salaam) and Gerrit Dimmendaal (University of Cologne) to present our results so far. Further, we discussed our findings in comparative botanical terminology as well as a planned collaboration with the University ofContinue reading “LHEAf Day”
DCLS Colloquium
Date | 21 March 2023 Location | University of Zurich Presentation by Maarten Mous at the Department of Comparative Language Sciences Colloquium: Fusion of related languages: the case of the Rangi and Mbugwe Bantu languages of Tanzania. Abstract: Within our project on the linguistic history of East Africa (https://lheaf.org/), one of contact zones that weContinue reading “DCLS Colloquium”
Fieldwork in Tanzania
Date | 5 – 20 March 2023 Location | Tanzania Fieldwork in Tanzania (Maarten Mous) From 5-20th March 2023 Maarten Mous accompanied Didier Demolin on a research trip to Tanzania. They did phonetic research on the Mbugu nasals in the Usambara mountains with Michael Karani of DSM university; checked Iraqw number marking on nouns andContinue reading “Fieldwork in Tanzania”
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