Program
Tuesday 01. September
12.00 – 15.00: Arrival, lunch and walk
15.00 – 15.15: Janne Bondi Johannessen: Welcome
15.15 – 15.50: Baye Yimam: The Phonology of the Variety of Amharic in Wollo
15.50 – 16.25: Rolf Piene Halvorsen and Lindsay Ferrara: Methods in data annotation: Insights from signed language research
16.25 – 16.45: Coffee
16.45 – 17.20: Pawlos Kassu: Aspect Marking in Ethiopian Sign Language
17.20 – 17.55: Ronny Meyer: Marking of Core Case in Muher
19.00: Dinner
Wednesday 02. September 2015
08. 00: Breakfast
09.00 – 09.35: Shimelis Mazengia: Some Observation on Hadiyissa Orthography
09.35 – 10.10: John Koang: Nuer Orthography
10.10 – 10.30: Coffee
10.30 – 11.05: Binyam Sisay: Negation in Hamar
11.05 – 11.40: Derib Ado and Feda Negesse: Recognition of Redundant Letters in Amharic: A Psycholinguistic Experiment
11.40 – 12.15: Melkeneh Seid: Noun Inflection in Gayl
12.15 – 13.15: Lunch
13.15 – 15.00: Walk
15.00 – 15.20: Coffee
15.20 – 15.55: Janne Bondi Johannessen: Using corpora for linguistic research
15.55 – 16.30: Hirut Woldemariam: Contesting Identities in Multilingual Settings: The case of Gammo
16.30 – 17.05: Solomon Getahnu:The Influence of Amharic on Guragigna Varieties, A Study of Language Contact and Genetic Affiliation
19.00: Dinner
Thursday 03. September 2015
08. 00: Breakfast
09.00 – 09.35: Emebet Bekele: Multilingualism and Language Choice among the Gurage
09.35 – 10.10: Elizabeth Lanza and Hirut Woldemariam: Linguistic landscape as (socio)linguistic data
10.10 – 10.30: Coffee
10.30 – 11.05: Zelealem Leyew: Kinship Terms and Concepts among the Sidaama
11.05 – 12.15: Kristin Hagen: ELAN workshop. Preliminary guidelines
12.15 – 13.15: Lunch
13.15 – 15.00: Walk
15.00 – 15.20: Coffee
15.20 – 15.55: Almaz Wassie: The Standardization of Gamo: Practices, Challenges and Implications
15.55 – 16.30: Fekede Menuta and Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld: The Pragmatics of Cursing and Insult in Gurage and Nordic Culture
16.30 – 17.05: Tsehay Abza: The Phonological Preliminaries of Inor
19.00: Dinner
Friday 04. September 2015
08. 00: Breakfast
09.00 – 09.35: Woineshet Girma: The Semantics Properties of Ethiopian Sign Language, Implications for Sign Language Dictionary Making
09.35 – 10.10: Andargachew Deneke: Phonology of Ethiopian Sign Language
10.10 – 10.30: Coffee (and or packing - please leave your room before 12.00)
10.30 – 11.05: Girma Mengistu: Tone in Sezo
11.05 – 11.40: Nigussie Meshesha: Political and Social Discourse in Sidaama Folk Media
11.45 – 12.20: Moges Yigezu: The Morphophonology of Hamar
12.20 – 13.20: Lunch
13.20 – 15.00: Short walk
15.00 – 16.00: Wrapping up: Corpus planning and proceedings
16.30: Leaving for station
