Conference
4th Hybrid Cushitic Conference
- Date
- Thursday 11 December 2025 - Friday 12 December 2025
- Address
- see the programme
The conference is a new addition of annual hybrid workshops on Cushitic languages since 2023 which were held earlier in Paris (twice), and Naples.
Programme
Day 1 - Thursday, 11 December 2025
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Lipsius 1.30 |
Chair: Maarten Mous |
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9:00-9:30 |
Ongaye Oda: Reduplication in Konso |
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9:30-10:00 |
Kazuhiro Kawachi: Grammatical properties in Sidaama unattested in neighboring languages
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10:00-10:30 |
Giulia Zhang: On Burji case morphemes suffixed on verbs |
10:30 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
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Lipsius 1.30 |
chair: Maarten Mous |
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11:00-11:30 |
Graziano Savà: Verb derivation in Ts’amakko (East Cushitic, Dullay) |
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11:30-12:00 |
Jeroen van Ravenhorst: The phonemes /h/, /ħ/, and /x/ in the Dullay languages |
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12:00-12:30 |
Abebe Keno Gonfa: Case Markers in Bayso
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12:30-13:00 |
Wondwosen Tesfaye: The Category of Adjectives in Konsoid languages |
13:00 --- LUNCH BREAK ---
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Lipsius 2.17 |
chair: Giorgia Zantei |
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14:30-15:00 |
Youssouf: Digraphs: A Necessary Burden in Oromo Orthography |
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15:00-15:30 |
Yvonne Treis & Yoseph Yonas Zecharias: Towards an ethno- and ecolinguistic account of honey hunting in Kambaata |
15:30 --- TEA BREAK ---
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Lipsius 2.17 |
chair: Giorgia Zantei |
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16:00-16:30 |
Tamara Prischnegg: Somali trade goods: A linguistic perspective on Boswellia sp. and Commiphora sp. |
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16:30-17:00 |
Paul Fallon: Some Analytic Etymologies in Central Cushitic |
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17:00-17:30 |
Ruth Kramer: Towards a Morphological Approach to Gender Assignment in Oromo |
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17:30-18:00 |
Sjef van Lier: What makes Maay Maay: Phonological features |
19:00 DINNER PARTY tba
Day 2 - Friday, 12 December 2025
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Herta Mohr 0.06 |
chair: Sjef van Lier |
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9:00-9:30 |
Andrew Harvey & Jutta Hartmann: A first look at copulae in Gorwaa |
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9:30-10:00 |
Martine Vanhove & Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle: A contrastive approach of complex predicates in Beja and Afar |
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10:00-10:30 |
Dilamo Markos: Non-verbal predication in Hadiyya |
10:30 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
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Herta Mohr 0.06 |
chair: Sjef van Lier |
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11:00-11:30 |
Melle Groen, Dominique Loviscach, Maarten Mous & Junma Zhou: Number in Iraqw: between derivation and inflection |
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11:30-12:00 |
Maarten Mous: Bantu influence on Tanzanian Cushitic |
12:00 --- LUNCH BREAK ---
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13:00-13:30 |
Roland Kiessling: Burunge negation revisited |
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13:30-14:00 |
Jama Musse Jama: SAMTRAMOD - Saaho Machine Translation Model - Ver 1.0 |
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14:00-14:30 |
Amanuel Berhanu: Numerals and arithmetic operations in Gedeo |
15:15 Firew Elias: Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Registration
Please register by sending an email to Maarten Mous.