Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone:
New Data and Theories

June 12-13, 2015


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The program for the workshop can be found below (abstracts are linked).

A pdf version of the program can be downloaded here.


Thursday, June 11
from 7pm onwards Warming Up in the ‘Sol y Mar’ (Gottschedstraße 4)
Friday, June 12
Room: H1 5.16/H2 0.10, Beethovenstr. 15
8:45 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 10:00 Invited speaker: Gerrit Dimmendaal (University of Cologne)
How much non-concatenative morphology can speakers cope with?
10:00 - 10:30 Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College)
Word-level and phrase-level replacive tone: an implicational relationship
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Kristine M. Yu (UMass Amherst)
Tonal marking of absolutive case in Samoan
11:30 - 12:00 Tian Mimi (University of Hong Kong)
A grammatical analysis of the ‘induced creaky tone’ in Burmese
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30 Bert Remijsen (University of Edinburgh)
Compositionality in the lexical and morphological specifications for tone in Shilluk
14:30 - 15:00 Sabine Zerbian (Stuttgart University)
Adjacent high tones at word- and phrase level in Tswana
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 Jeroen Breteler (University of Amsterdam)
Tone Classes in Wan Japanese
16:00 - 16:30 Robindra Nath Banerji (Haverford College)
Huichol (Wixárika) Word Accent: Typology, Interactions, and Implications
16:30 - 17:00 Aida Talić (University of Connecticut)
Tonal marking of specificity in BCS
19:30 Conference dinner at the ‘Chinabrenner’ (Gießerstraße 18)
Saturday, June 13
Room: H2 0.10, Beethovenstr. 15
9:15 - 10:00 Invited speaker: Yuni Kim (University of Manchester)
Multiply conditioned tonal allomorphy in Amuzgo
10:00 - 10:30 Xiaoliang Luo (Université d’Orléans / CNRS)
Mandarin Chinese: morphological right boundary and its consequences on tones
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Siri M. Gjersøe (Leipzig University)
Floating L tones in Kikuyu: Domain-sensitivity and Tonal Interactions
11:30 - 12:00 Frank Kügler (University of Potsdam)
Pitch register reset and embedded clauses in Akan
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30 Irina Monich (University of Surrey)
Tone as a diagnostic of morphosyntactic structure in South African Bantu languages
14:30 - 15:00 Sampson Korsah & Andrew Murphy (Leipzig University)
High tone insertion in Akan as a reflex of successive-cyclic movement
15:00 - 15:30 Rozenn Guérois (SOAS, University of London & Laboratoire DDL, Université de Lyon 2)
Tonal variation within NPs in Cuwabo (Mozambique, Bantu P34)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 Susanne Genzel (Potsdam University) & Reginald Duah (University of Ghana, Legon)
H tone insertion on verbs in na-focus sentence in Akan
16:30 - 17:15 Invited speaker: Mary Paster (Pomona College)
Approaches to the Bantu Melodic H