The fifth meeting with the topic clausal determiners will take place at the University of Ghana, Legon, on the 18th-20th of March, 2024.
Invited experts: Felix Ameka, Liz Coppock, Maribel Romero
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
DAY 1: MARCH 18, 2024
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome introduction |
| 9:15-10:15 | Invited Talk: Felix Ameka Clause final markers-Determiners or something else? On the diversity of Clause final markers in Kwa Chair: Reginald Duah |
| 10:15-10:45 | coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Hasiyatu Abubakari & Yvonne Agbetsoamedo: Comparing Definiteness Marking in Kwa and Mabia Languages: Insights from Relativization, Cleft, and Topic Construction. chair: Nadine Bade |
| 11:30-12:15 | Carla Bombi, Reginald Duah, Mira Grubic and Agata Renans: Clausal determiners in Akan, Ngamo and Gã. chair: Nadine Bade |
| 12:15-14:15 | lunch break |
| 14:15-15:00 | Cecile Meier: Relative clauses and article choice chair: Cornelia Ebert |
| 15:00-15:45 | Radek Simik: On the semantics and pragmatics of clausal demonstratives in Slavic languages chair: Cornelia Ebert |
| 15:45-16:15 | coffee break |
| 16:15-17:00 | Reginald Duah & Abdul-Razak Sulemana: Bare NPs in Buli |
| 17:00-18:00 | Business meeting (until 17:45) |
DAY 2: MARCH 19, 2024
| 9:00-9:15 | Arrival |
| 9:15-10:15 | Invited Talk: Maribel Romero On the reportative complementizer “que” in Spanish chair: Mira Grubic |
| 10:15-10:45 | coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Carla Bombi & Jeanne Lecavelier: Question embedding in Spanish and French: the definite strategy |
| 11:30-12:15 | Abigail Bimpeh, Imke Driemel & Reginald Duah: Say-complementation and the clausal determiner in Kwa |
| 12:15-14:15 | lunch break |
| 14:15-15:00 | Augustina Owusu: Are there real propositional determiners? |
| 15:00-15:45 | Sampson Korsah: Determiners in the clausal domain: Uniting relative and temporal clauses in Gã |
| 15:45-16:15 | coffee break |
| 16:15-17:00 | Malte Zimmermann: The clause-final determiner nó in Akan: Its distribution and discourse function from a formal discourse modelling perspective. |
| 17:00-18:00 | Invited Talk: Liz Coppock Uniqueness, existence and familiarity |
DAY 3: MARCH 20, 2024
| 10:30-10:45 | Arrival (+ coffee) |
| 10:45-12:00 | Roundtable 1: Syntax of clausal determiners |
| 12:00-14:00 | lunch break |
| 14:00-15:15 | Roundtable 2: Semantics of clausal determiners |
| 15:15-15:45 | coffee break |
| 15:45-17:00 | Roundtable 3: Relation of clausal determiner to definite determiners in the nominal domain |