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PAST EVENTS
2nd Hybrid Meeting on Cushitic Languages and Linguistics
Date | 5-6 December 2024 Location | Naples Presentation by Maarten Mous: “The history of South Cushitic” (slides). Presentation by Sjef van Lier: “The most diagnostic features in a Somali dialectology: Are they still valid”. Presentation by Ahmed Sosal: “The Status of d’ in Highland East Cushitic: Contact Effects and Internal Development.”
See moreRoots, branches & LHEAf: Multidisciplinary perspectives on East Africa’s early history
Date | 6-8 June 2024 Location | Leiden This conference is about the early history of East African people, their languages and cultures, concluding the Leiden project on the Linguistic History of East Africa. Aiming to correlate our linguistic findings with those of other disciplines, the conference is interdisciplinary and invites researchers from fields such as…
See moreLUCL-BantUGent workshop: Unravelling Africa’s Early Linguistic History
Date | 17 May 2024 Location | Ghent On Friday 17 May, the LHEAf research team visited Ghent for a joint workshop with BantUGent on the fascinating world of Africa’s early linguistic history. On the program: exploring language contact, diagnosing substrate, and placing linguistic findings in an interdisciplinary context. More information can be found here.
See moreRift Valley Network webinar
Date | 1 May 2024 Location | online Maarten Mous – Tanzanian Cushitic history
Read MoreELDP Language ecology and documentation workshop
Date | 23 February 2024 Location | Berlin Presentation by Maarten Mous: Naming language, language names and “language”. Abstract: My presentation consists of three sections. First I discuss self-names of registers: Ma’á/Mbugu and I analyse terms for in-law languages across the world and youth languages. Second, I analyse the language names of the languages of…
Read MoreDescriptive Linguistic Seminar
Date | 16 February 2024 Location | Leiden Presentation by Maarten Mous: Cushitic influence on Bantu in East Africa for the Descriptive Linguistics Seminars by LUCL. Abstract: As part of our Linguistic history of East Africa LHEAf.org project we (mainly Nina van der Vlugt and me) look into the loans from Cushitic languages and proto-languages…
Read MoreLeidenASA Annual Meeting
Date | 14 December 2023 Location | Leiden Maarten Mous gave an elevator pitch on the results of the project. More information.
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