Slides for a plenary I gave at the Total Reduplication workshop organised by Daniela Rossi. The other plenary speakers were David Gil (MPI-EVA), Thomas Stolz (U. Bremen), and Silvia Kouwenberg (UWI, Mona).
Slides for a plenary address delivered at the 2011 African Studies Day, organised by the Netherlands Association of African Studies. The theme of the day was “Africa’s cultural heritage”.
Slides for my recent paper ‘Ideophones in unexpected places’, presented at LDLT2 in London, November 13-14. Though the inquisitive rooster in the title slide may not be looking for them, there are ideophones for just about any salient feature depicted in this scene. But what are people using them for? And what specialized uses may arise out of the core interactional functions of ideophones? Those are the questions addressed in this paper.
Supplementary material can be found on another page. A slightly updated version of the full paper is available here (PDF). Here is how to cite it:
Slides for a talk titled The interaction of syntax and expressivity in Siwu ideophones, presented in Berkeley at the 2009 International Conference on RRG, August 9, 2009. The handout can be downloaded here. The slides are also available as a PDF file. You can cite this presentation as follows: