Colloque Hugo Schuchardt

21 Oct 2008 - 00:30
21 Oct 2008 - 21:00

Colloque Hugo Schuchardt

P R O G R A M O U T L I N E

International Workshop on Continuity and Discontinuity

in Language and Communication

organized by the Czech Science Foundation Group No. 402/07/0277,

Charles University, Faculty of Humanities and

the Centre for the Study of Contacts in Language and Culture, (Europe and the others), n.g.o, in cooperation with the Prague Linguistic Circle

and Chair of Dynamics of Language, Institut Universitaire de France et Université de Nice

Date: Tuesday, 21/Oct/2008

Place:

Institut français de Prague, Salon Derrida, Štěpánská 35, Praha 2, fifth floor

8:30-8:45

P. Zima, Praha

Opening of the Workshop

8:45-11:15

1. Session: Hugo Schuchardt and General Linguistics,

Chairman Robert Nicolaï (Nice and Paris)

8:45-9:15

B. Hurch, Graz

Wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Kontinuität und Diskontinuität bei Hugo Schuchardt

9:15-9:45

P. Sériot, Lausanne

The notion of Sprachbund, from H. Schuchardt to P. Savitsky:
the refusal of genetic relationships between languages

9:45-10:15

S. Brauner, Leipzig

Hugo Schuchardt and the Traditions of Linguistics in Leipzig.

10:15-10:45

J. Šabršula, Ostrava

La convergence et la divergence des langues à la lumière de
l'enseignement de Hugo Schuchardt

10:45-11:15

T. Hoskovec,

Praha and Brno

Loi et norme, instruments notionnels de la linguistique

11:15-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:30

2. Session: Sprachbund and Pidgins/Creoles in West Africa,

Chairman Rainer Vossen (Frankfurt a.M.)

11:30-12:00

N. Cyffer, Wien

Non-verbal predication in Kanuri - The crux of negation and focus

12:00-12:30

A. Storch, Köln

How to keep languages apart: Chadic and Jukunoid in contact

12:30-13:00

H. Schreiber,

Frankfurt a.M.

Cultural zones and linguistic convergence in (West) Africa

13:00-13:30

G.Ziegelmeyer, Wien

Areal features in northern Nigeria - Towards a linguistic area

 

13:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:30

3. Session: Sprachbund and Pidgins/Creoles in West Africa,

Chairman V.Porkhomovskij (Moscow)

14:30-15:00

R. Leger,

Frankfurt a.M.

Verbal classes in the southern Bole-Tangale languages

15:00-15:30

M. Holubová, Praha and Frankfurt a.M.

&
H.Jungraithmayr,
Frankfurt a.M.

Ngas (Angas): The Verbal System

15:30-16:00

A.Tabouret-Keller, Strasbourg

Schuchardt's views on Creole and Pidgin as seen at the
beginnig of the 21st century

16:00-16:30

U. Zoch, Frankfurt a.M.

Hausa in Kumasi

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-18:30

4. Session: Oracy and literacy/Continuity/Diskontinuity,
Chairman Norbert Cyffer (Wien)

17:00-17:30

G. Cadorini, Praha and Opava

L'épisémion : Une unité pour segmenter les textes oraux spontanés

17:30-18:00

V.Porkhomovskij, Moscow

Oracy and literacy

18:00-18:30

T. Bearth, Zürich

&

P. Zima, Praha

Where are we 7 years after the Zürich meeting? Methods, theories, new frontiers, the never ending story of oracy/literacy as an African and global problem.

18:30-19:30

5. Session: Round-table discussion, conclusion,

Chairman S.Ernisch (Frankfurt a.M.)