International Workshop on
the
Description and
Documentation of the
Ghana-Togo-Mountain Languages
July
24 -29 2006
Bishop Konings
Social Centre, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana
Programme
Monday, July 24: arrival and registration
Tuesday July
25th
8.45 – 9.00 Opening
9.00
– 10.00 J. Andrew
Ring, Ph.D (GILLBT/ USA)
We
Have No One to Sing Our Songs: Concerns of an African Elder
10.00- 11.00 Coleen
G. Anderson Starwalt (Texas /Oregon, USA)
The acoustic
analysis of the vowel systems of three GTM languages: Ikposo,
Tuwuli and Foodo
11.00 – 11.30 break
11.30
– 12.30 Felix K. Ameka
(Leiden)
Verb
extensions in Likpe
12.30 – 14.00 lunch
14.00
– 15.00 Roger Blench
(Cambridge, UK)
Do Ghana-Togo-Mountain languages constitute a genetic
group and if so, what is the evidence?
15.00 – 16.00 Mary
Esther Dakubu (Legon, Ghana)
Reconstructing
the map in the Trans-Volta: language movement, assimilation and loss
16.00 – 16.30 break
16.30
– 18.00 Forum: Oral traditions
and linguistic reconstruction
Moderator:
Dimitri van den Bersselaar
(Liverpool, UK)
James
Essegbey – Nyagbo;
Matthew Harley – Tuwuli
Alubue Amavi Eklo
– Akan (Twi) and Akposso contacts
Wednesday 26th July
8.45
– 9.00 Poster
session:
Cecilia Edem Tornu-Dialect
differentiation in Likpe
9.00 – 10.00 Gray
Plunkett
Orthographic
decisions regarding tone in Foodo
10.00- 11.00 Michael Serchie (Central Volta Region Project, Santrokofi)
Central Volta Region Multi-Project development program:
a short history focussing on women’s literacy and recording of songs
11.00 – 11.30 break
11.30
– 12.30 Alubue
Amavi (Jacqueline) Eklo
(
Modalities
of the complements’ participation in the action and state proceedings of
verbs: the case of the stative verbs in Ikposso
12.30 – 14.00 lunch
14.00- 15.00 Mercy
Akrofi-Ansah (
Tense and aspectual marking in Lɛtɛ
15.00-
16.00 Ufualè Christine Afola-Amey
(
Tense,
mood, aspect in Ikposso
16.00 – 16.30 break
16.30
– 17.30 Massanvi Honorine Poidi-Gblem (Lome, Togo)
Mutation
of Vowel Harmony in Igo (Ahlon)
language
17.30 – 18.00 Discussion
Thursday 27th
July
8.45 – 9.00 Poster
session
9.00 – 10.00 Divine
Mununkum (Avatime Lang.
Dev. Proj. Co-ord.)
Lelemi discourse particles
10.00
– 11.00 Anne Schwarz &
Ines Fiedler (HU
Focal
Aspects in the Lelemi Verb System
11.00 – 11.30 break
11.30
– 12.30 Matthew Harley (Bukuru, Plateau State, Nigeria)
Focus
constructions in Tuwuli
12.30 – 14.00 lunch
14.00
– 15. 00 Kofi
Dorvlo (Leiden)
Focus
in Logba
15.00
– 16.00 James Essegbey (U Florida, Gainesville USA)
Noun
classes in Nyagbo: a preliminary analysis
16.00 – 16.30 break
16.30
- 17.30 Discussion
17.30 – 18.00 Research
Funding & publication plans’ discussion
Friday 28th
July
breakfast
07.00 Departure
for Tafi Monkey Sanctuary
12.30 Return
to Nyagbo
13.00 – 14.00 lunch at Nyagbo
14.00 – 17.00 Durbar at Nyagbo
Presentations of language development efforts in
Central Volta region
(representatives
from 4 communities)
Experiences from communities in Togo
Launching of Trial edition of Nyagbo
Primer By
Rev Prof Gilbert Ansre
18.00 departure for Ho
Saturday
July 29th
Breakfast and departure
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Organising Committee
Felix K. Ameka, African Languages and
Cultures, Leiden University
Kofi Dorvlo, African Languages and Cultures, Leiden University
Paul
Agbedor, Linguistics Department, University of Ghana,
Legon
James
Essegbey, African and Asian Languages and
Literatures, University of Florida, Gainesville
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Sponsored by
Endangered Languages Programme
Council of Humanities (GW) and
the