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Workshop Program (updated: May 12)
| Mo, May 13 | Grammatical Structures of Nilo Saharan, Day #1 |
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Settling in, registration |
| 9:25 - 9:30 | Opening remarks |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Invited talk |
| Marked nominative as a type of ergative | |
| Maria Kouneli (Rutgers University) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Chair: tba |
| 11: 00 - 11:30 | Kalenjin - two types of verbal number |
| Nadja Fiebig (Universiät Leipzig) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | The nominal number system of Datooga |
| Roland Kießling (Universität Hamburg) | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Invited talk |
| Morphological stratification as the key to unlocking the vowel inventory in Nuer | |
| Tatiana Reid (Surrey Morphology Group) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Chair: tba |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tone in the Ethiopian variant of Nuer |
| Siri Gjersøe (Emagine GmbH) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | The three lives of Shilluk right-edge H: unification under deficiency and timing |
| Armel Jolin (Universität Leipzig) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Buffer |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Guided tour of the Bibliotheca Albertina (library) |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Volkshaus, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 30 |
| Tue, May 14 | Grammatical Structures of Nilo Saharan, Day #2 |
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Settling in |
| 9:25 - 9:30 | Opening remarks |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Invited talk |
| Outermost wins in Dinka tone | |
| Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University of London) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Chair: tba |
| 11: 00 - 11:30 | Further evidence for cyclic movement from Turkana |
| Leonie Barabas-Weil (Universiät Leipzig) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Discontinuous agreement in Eastern Sudanic |
| Helene Streffer (Universität Leipzig) | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Comparative perspectives on extraction from EV2 |
| Fabian Heck (Universität Leipzig) | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Chair: tba |
| 14:00-14:30 | Reanalysing Gaahmg tonal patterns with representations in Element Theory |
| Thom van Hugte (Universität Leipzig) | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Counting, polarity and strata in Karimojong tone |
| Jochen Trommer (Universität Leipzig) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Walk to the department |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Reception |