The program is now final, and we don’t expect any additional change to be made to it. See you all soon!
| Thursday | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Registration | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Plenary: Frans Hinskens | The Afrikaans reduction of medial voiced obstruents: determinants, rule typology and origin (pdf) |
| 11:30-12:05 | Nina Brink | Afrikaans speaking children’s first form-meaning mappings (pdf) |
| 12:05-12:40 | Michelle White, Kate Huddlestone & Roeline Bastiaanse |
The comprehension of negation in the L1 acquisition of Afrikaans (pdf) |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00-2:35 | René Backhouse, Johan Oosthuizen |
Casting some ‘light’ on small clauses in Afrikaans (pdf) |
| 2:35-3:10 | Timothy Colleman, Gerhard van Huyssteen, Arie Verhagen | A constructionist account of the weg-construction(s) of Afrikaans (pdf) |
| Break | ||
| 3:30-4:05 | Daan Wissing | Afrikaans on the move: evidence from its word stress formation (pdf) |
| 4:05-4:40 | Andrew Lamont | The small matter of the Afrikaans diminutive (pdf) |
| 4:40-5:15 | Andreas Baumann | Stabilizing determinants in the transmission of phonotactic systems: on the emergence of the Afrikaans consonant-cluster inventory (pdf) |
| Friday | ||
| 8:45-9:20 | Dario Rens | The anticausative prominence in Afrikaans (pdf) |
| 9:20-9:55 | Daniel Van Olmen, Adri Breed, Ben Verhoeven | A typological and questionnaire-based approach to the human impersonal pronouns in Afrikaans (pdf) |
| 9:55-10:30 | Bertus van Rooy, Haidee Kruger |
Syntactic variation in direct and indirect speech constructions (pdf) |
| Break | ||
| 10:45-11:45 | Plenary: Jac Conradie | Where is ‘het’ heading? (pdf) |
| 11:45-12:20 | Ernst Kotzé | Complementation and modification patterns in adjectives: a comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch (pdf) |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 1:45-2:20 | Yolandi Ribbens-Klein | Acoustic explorations towards a sociophonetics of Afrikaans /r/ variation (pdf) |
| 2:20-2:55 | Andries W. Coetzee, Patrice Beddor, Dominique Bouavichith, Justin Craft, Daan Wissing | Tone and plosive voicing in Afrikaans: an imbalanced system of contrast (pdf) |
| 2:55-3:30 | Johanita Kirsten | Mens moet maar aanpas – Recent changes in Afrikaans generic pronoun use (pdf) |
| Break | ||
| 3:45-4:20 | Benito Trollip, Frans Hinskens |
The linking element in Afrikaans compounds: testing the effects of cognitive and formal determinants (pdf) |
| 4:20-4:55 | Gerhard van Huyssteen | Multiword proper names in compounds and derivations: Towards a morphographemic model of choice (pdf) |
