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Linguistic Insights on Kinyarwanda & Kirundi

This document provides the program and access details for an online workshop titled "Advances in the Study of Kinyarwanda and Kirundi" to be held on February 27, 2021. The workshop will include presentations on linguistic research related to Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, including topics like dialect variation, language change over time and space, tense and aspect marking, word morphology, lexicography work, and more. It will be held via Zoom video conference starting at 8:15 AM and concluding at 7:45 PM with discussions after each presentation. The document provides the schedule, presenter names and affiliations as well as the Zoom login information for participants to join the workshop online.

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Linguistic Insights on Kinyarwanda & Kirundi

This document provides the program and access details for an online workshop titled "Advances in the Study of Kinyarwanda and Kirundi" to be held on February 27, 2021. The workshop will include presentations on linguistic research related to Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, including topics like dialect variation, language change over time and space, tense and aspect marking, word morphology, lexicography work, and more. It will be held via Zoom video conference starting at 8:15 AM and concluding at 7:45 PM with discussions after each presentation. The document provides the schedule, presenter names and affiliations as well as the Zoom login information for participants to join the workshop online.

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Online workshop

“ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF KINYARWANDA AND KIRUNDI”

JGU MAINZ, 27 Feb. 2021

Program and access link (see below)

Contact:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nico Nassenstein
nassenstein@uni-mainz.de
Office line: +496131-3920356
Mobile (also WhatsApp/Signal): +4915154777061
ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF KINYARWANDA AND KIRUNDI – WORKSHOP

8:15 N. Nass. /Anna-Maria Brandstetter (JGU Partnership coordinator Rwanda) – Welcome


8:30 Gabriel Bazimaziki – Kinyarwanda sound variation among its contemporary users: Regional
dialect perspectivism (RWA 9:30)
9:00 Guri Bordal Steien – Language across time and space: Following UN-refugees from the DRC
to Norway
9:30 Modeste Simbikangwa – Kinyarwanda and Kirundi: A comparative sound system and tense-
aspect marking
10:00 Kyle Jerro and Nancy Kula – A multi-methodological exploration of tense and aspect in
Kinyarwanda (GBR 9:00)
10:30 – 10:45 Short break
10:45 Emmanuella Ahishakiye and Manoah-Joël Misago – Word complexity and meaning extension: A
construction morphology view of Kirundi perception verbs (BDI 11:45)
11:15 Matthias Brack and Marie-Goretti Musoni – Wörterbuch Kinyarwanda-Deutsch
11:45 Paulin Baraka Bose – Gutsinda: Taboo of names among Banyabwisha
12:15 Ernest Nshemezimana – Morphosyntactic marking of topics in Kirundi (JD62) (BDI 13:15)
12:45 – 13:30 Break
13:30 Mena B. Lafkioui, Koen Bostoen and Ernest Nshemezimana – Cleft and cleft-like
constructions in Kirundi (BE/FR 13:30, BDI 14:30)
14:00 Nico Nassenstein and Laura Seel – Preliminary notes on Kinyabwisha: A variety of
Kinyarwanda spoken in DR Congo (JD.61)
14:30 Deborah Wockelmann – Narrative research on linguistic differentiation processes in Uganda
15:00 Jean de Dieu Amini Ngabonziza – Kinyarwanda as a lingua franca in Rwanda and its
implication for literacy education in Rwandan schools (RWA 16:00)
15:30 Oliver Heinen – A collaborative approach towards a Kinyarwanda-Kirundi-German online
dictionary (RWA 16:30)
16:00-16:15 Short break
16:15 John Doldo IV – Ideas for future research on Rwandan grammar (USA 10:15)
16:45 Pascal Tuyubahe – Causative constructions in Kirundi (JD62) (BDI 17:45)
17:15 Alice Rwamo – Metalinguistic transferability among simultaneous and sequential trilingual
literates: Case of young triliterates in Burundi (BDI: 18:15)
17:45 Maud Devos – Linguistic unification? What the archives of the Belgian colonial Commission
for African Linguistics tell us about the debate as applied to Kinyarwanda/Kirundi
18:15 Robert Botne – An inquiry into complex “BE” constructions in Kinyarwanda (USA 12:15)
18:45 Leo Sibomana – A Kinyarwanda coursebook project
Leo Sibomana and Matthias Brack – Announcing the publication of an imigani-book
19:05 Discussion and final remarks
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86835632911?pwd=N24zM1JUYStmZXRCQmYzaEVnWjh5UT09
Meeting ID: 868 3563 2911 Passcode: 379196
NB: Schedule may slightly change due to unexpected technical challenges or short notice cancellation of
individual talks. All talks are supposed to take 20-25 min with a few questions afterwards (max. 30 min). In case
of slow internet connection, consider the option of pre-recording your talk and send it via WETRANSFER. The
questions/discussion after the talk could then be managed by attending with audio only. Please log in 30 min prior
to your talk.

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