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 EssegbeyNyagbo; Matthew Harley – Tuwuli

Alubue Amavi EkloAkan (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  (Lome, Togo)

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 (Legon, Ghana)

Tense and aspectual marking in Lɛtɛ

15.00- 16.00    Ufualè  Christine Afola-Amey (Lome, Togo)

                        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 Berlin, Germany)

                        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 Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research  (NWO)