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Due to the ongoing travel uncertainties, the Zürich Workshop on Afrikaans Linguistics can also be joined online for the attendees who find themselves incapable of travelling to Zürich in October.
We will do our best to make it a good experience with fruitful exchanges, both for the attendees in Zürich and those joining us online.
All present attendants should follow the guidelines imposed by the Swiss government as well as those by the University of Zürich. The current guidelines can be found here:
Additionally, according to the most recent directive, all present participants are required to provide a SWISS or EU conform COVID-certificate with either a proof of vaccination, proof of recovery or a negative PCR antigen test for entering any university building.
Attending the workshop automatically means agreeing to following these guidelines and complying with any related directives given by UZH staff during the workshop.
With over seven million native speakers, predominantly in southern Africa, Afrikaans is the fifth largest Germanic language. Although important work has been done regarding the history and the social and political aspects of Afrikaans, the study of its structure is still relatively uncharted territory especially compared to that of related languages.
This workshop aims to show that Afrikaans lends itself to interesting insights for theoretical linguistics and to bring together experts from southern Africa, the Low Countries and elsewhere in front of a Zurich audience.
Four plenary talks will be held by experts on Afrikaans and its theoretical implications. A further set of workshop sessions will be available for more contributions (see Call for Papers below). The workshop will be concluded by a round table session. Our plenary speakers are:
To allow for people from all backgrounds to be introduced to the merit of Afrikaans as a subject for linguistic theory, the working language will be English.
The programme encompasses two days with plenary talks, open call contributions and a round table discussion at the end of the second day. The round table panel consist of the invited speakers and will link the previous sessions and establish common grounds and discuss insights on the structure of Afrikaans and theoretical linguistics.
The workshop can be attended in Zürich, but it will also be possible to attend via Zoom for those who are incapable of traveling to Zürich. In that case you will receive the login details a few days before the congress, if you have registered to attend.
Presenters who attend the workshop via Zoom will be able to choose to hold their talk live via Zoom, or send in a video of their presentation and only hold the Q&A part live. This option might suit people who have a less then ideal internet connection.
Further practical information
The workshop organisation does not offer any reimbursement of expenses for travel or hotels. However, the workshop is free of charge to encourage as many people as possible to attend, including those who will not be active participants. We do offer a luncheon and conference dinner on the second day to all active participants who are present in Zürich, as well as a reception (‘Apéro riche’) as a chance to mingle on the first day to all fysically present attendees, active or not. It is therefore important to register (both active participants and other attendees), to ensure comestibles and seating facilities.
Zoom participants will also be able to socialise with the Zürich attendees during the coffee breaks and reception via a system of mobile Zoom drones.
Attendants who are relying on documentation to apply for funding at their own institution, can ask the workshop organisers for a confirmation of their attendance or of the acceptance of their abstracts, as the case may be.
Location: KOL-G-217, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich
All stated times are CEST (UTC+2): Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Zürich
DAY 1: Monday, October 4th 2021
13:00 Technical test for Zoom participants
13:30 Arrival & coffee
14:00 Opening & welcome word on behalf of the workshop organisers (Guido Seiler, Chris De Wulf)
14:15 Keynote (moderator: Sandro Bachmann)
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)
15:00 Open call session (moderator: Sandro Bachmann)
Benito Trollip (SADiLaR)
The meaning of affixoids in Afrikaans (PDF, 65 KB)
Nina Brink (NWU)
The types of metonymies in Afrikaans first language acquisition (PDF, 82 KB)
Wannie Carstens (NWU, VivA), Roné Wierenga (NWU, VivA)
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Keynote (moderator: Guido Seiler)
Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan)
17:45 Preliminary final words of the day (Guido Seiler)
18:15 Reception
DAY 2: Tuesday, October 5th 2021
09:00 Technical test for Zoom participants
09:15 Arrival with coffee & morning briefing (Ann-Marie Moser, Patrick Schetters)
09:45 Keynote (moderator: Ann-Marie Moser)
Timothy Colleman (UGent)
(Lexico-)Grammatical innovation in the NWU-Kommentaarcorpus (PDF, 140 KB)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Open call session (moderator: Ann-Marie Moser)
Jean-Marie Potgieter (Stellenbosch University)
PPI Predicates - comparing novel Afrikaans data with English and Dutch data (PDF, 113 KB)
Peter Dirix (KU Leuven)
Insubordination in Afrikaans (PDF, 51 KB)
12:00 Lunch break
13:45 Open call session (moderator: Jonas Keller)
Thilo Weber (IDS Mannheim), Simon Pröll (LMU München)
Afrikaans in quantitative typology of Germanic standard and non-standard (PDF, 112 KB)
Gerhard van Huyssteen (NWU)
How Afrikaans women became fierce-tempered (PDF, 157 KB)
Adri Breed (NWU), Nadine Fouché (VivA), Nina Brink (NWU), Marlie Coetzee (VivA), Cecilia Erasmus (St. David's Marist Inanda), Sophia Kapp (VivA), Suléne Pilon (University of Pretoria), Roné Wierenga (VivA, NWU), Gerhard van Huyssteen (NWU)
The grammatical descriptions of Afrikaans in VivA's linguistic pipeline (PDF, 105 KB)
15:15 Keynote (moderator: Jonas Keller)
Jenny Audring (Leiden University)
The puzzle of Afrikaans pronominal gender (PDF, 122 KB)
16:00 Coffee break
16:40 Round table discussion (moderators: Elia Ackermann, Chris De Wulf)
17:30 Conclusions & closing words (Guido Seiler)
18:15 Dinner with active participants
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