(All times in EST.)

09:00am–10:00am: Keynote talk
Mary Amaechi, Reggie Akuoko Duah and Malte Zimmermann
The structure and meaning of (seeming) OBJ-sharing SVCs in Igbo and Akan
Handout

10:00am–10:30am: Talk
Sampson Korsah
On change of state verbs and object pronominalization in Kwa

10:30am–11:00am: Talk
Abdul-razak Sulemana
Implicit arguments in Buli

11:00am–11:30am: Break

11:30am–12:00pm: Talk
Augustina Owusu and Comfort Ahenkorah
TBA

12:00pm–01:00pm: Lightning talks
Nkechi Mgbodichinma Ukaegbu
Phonetic evidence of coda violation in Nanka-Igbo

Josue Akpoue
Strong articles as topic markers: the case of Baule
Slides and appendix

Fridah Nickèse Gam A Belek
The interaction between lexical tone and intonation

Kãmilah Kalidheen
Kaaps: An Ideological and Perception Analysis

Koukou Maldja
Issues in the Occurrence of Embedded Language Islands in Moba-French Code-switching

Emeka Onwuegbuzia
Naija Lexical Items: Forms and Patterns

01:00pm–02:00pm: Keynote talk
Mark Baker
Verb-Noun Complexes that Behave Like a Verb in Some Niger-Congo Languages