On October 7, 2021, Hannah Gibson and Jenneke van der Wal organise an online workshop exploring the expression of mirativity and evidentiality in Bantu languages with research from amongst other Deo Kawalya (University of Makerere – BantUGent) & Maud Devos (RMCA – BantUGent).
Please contact Hannah Gibson (h.gibson@essex.ac.uk) or Jenneke van der Wal (g.j.van.der.wal@hum.leidenuniv.nl) if you are interested. They will send you the Zoom link!
| 13:00 | Start and welcome | Hannah Gibson and Jenneke van der Wal |
| 13:10-13:40 | A corpus-driven analysis of the Luganda near-synonym evidential particles mbu and nti | Deo Kawalya |
| 13:40-14:10 | Looking for evidentiality in Bantu | Thera Crane |
| 14:10-14:40 | Mirativity in Gĩkũyũ and Kiswahili | Claudius Kihara |
| 14:40-15:00 | BREAK | |
| 15:00-15:30 | The expression of miratives in Rukiga | Allen Asiimwe |
| 15:30-16:00 | On the possibility of a mirative enclitic in Shangaji | Maud Devos |
| 16:00-16:30 | Post-verbal clitics and mirativity in Bemba | Nancy Kula, Hannah Gibson and Kyle Jerro |
| 16:30-17:00 | BREAK | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Possible evidentiality in Copi | Melle Groen |
| 17:30-18:00 | Evidentiality Contrasts and TAM Marking in Bamiléké-Dschang: A Case of Double Duty | Matthew N. Czuba |
| 18:00-18:30 | Emphatic interpretations of Object Marking | Hannah Lippard, Justine Sikuku, Crisófia Langa da Camara, and Michael Diercks |