2020
Departmental seminar. “L’acquisition de la langue première, illustrée avec une langue Jóola [First language acquisition, illustrated with a Jóola language”. (with Virve-Anneli Vihman). Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, 23 January.
2019
The many facets of agreement. “Non-canonical agreement in an Atlantic language: from lexical hybrids to contextual mismatches in Eegimaa”. University of Zurich, 4 October.
The many facets of agreement. “Acquisition of demonstrative agreement in a complex system”. (with Virve-Anneli Vihman, Marilyn Vihman, Dunstan Brown). University of Zurich, 4 October.
31st West African Languages Congress (WALC). “Productivity in children’s acquisition of noun classes: A case study of Eegimaa”. (with Virve-Anneli Vihman, Marilyn Vihman, Dunstan Brown). Université Félix Houphouët‑Boigny, Abidjan, 14 August.
Child Language Symposium (CLS) 19. (Poster). “Acquisition of demonstrative agreement in a complex system: How are gender categories learned?” (with Virve-Anneli Vihman, Marilyn Vihman, Dunstan Brown). University of Sheffield, 12 July.
Workshop of Nominal categorization: from grammar to communicative interaction (NCW2019). “Shape-based semantic categorization in Atlantic languages of the Jóola group”. (with Dunstan Brown). Paper presented at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, 19 April.
Typology of small‑scale multilingualism. “African multilingualism viewed from another angle: challenging the Casamance exception”. (with Abbie Hantgan). Université Lumière Lyon 2, 17 April.
2018
Colloque international sur les nouvelles dynamiques en éducation en Afrique de l’Ouest : du préscolaire à l’enseignement supérieur. “Les langues africaines pour une éducation de qualité”. Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor, Sénégal, 7 November.
Child Language Symposium (CLS) 18.(Poster). “Acquisition of noun class prefixes and agreement in an Atlantic language: A naturalistic study of the acquisition of Eegimaa.” (with Virve-Anneli Vihman, Marilyn Vihman, Dunstan Brown). University of Reading, 26 June.
9th World Congress of African Linguistics. “Noun class from a different angle: morphological classes and genders in Eegimaa”. University of Rabat, Morocco, 27 August 2018.
9th World Congress of African Linguistics. “Aspects of the acquisition of noun class and agreement in an Atlantic language: A case study of children learning Eegimaa”. (with Marilyn Vihman, Dunstan Brown). University of Rabat, Morocco, 27 August.
2015
8th World Congress of African Linguistics. “Nominal and verbal number in Gújjolaay Eegimaa/Banjal (Atlantic, Niger‑Congo)”. Kyoto University, Japan, 24 August.
11th Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology. “Overt verb classification in an African noun class system”. University of New Mexico, USA, 3 August.
2014
Gender and classifiers: cross linguistic perspectives. “This is where you put it: shape in the categorisation of body parts in the Gújjolaay Eegimaa noun class/gender system”. University of Surrey, UK, 17 January.
2014
Syntax of the World’s Languages 6. “Valency, transitivity, and voice in Jóola Banjal (a.k.a Gújjolaay Eegimaa” (Alain Christian Bassène, Denis Creissels and Serge Sagna). University of Pavia, Italy, 8-10 September.
5th UK cognitive Linguistics Conference. “Related categorisations of entities and events in the Gújjolaay Eegimaa noun class system”. Lancaster University, UK, 29 July.
45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. “Transitivity hierarchy distinctions in non-finite verbs of classes e- and ja- in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. University of Kansas, USA, 19 April.
2013
Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4. “Taxonomic hierarchies in Gújjolaay Eegimaa: how helpful are Berlin’s universal criteria”? SOAS (University of London), UK, 7 December.
Plants, animal and words: a multidisciplinary workshop. “Exploring linguistic and taxonomic classification of plants in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. SOAS (University of London), UK, 2 September (Invited – Keynote speaker).
54th Linguistic Association of Great Britain Annual General Meeting. “Aspects of the categorization of non-finite verbs in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. SOAS, University of London, UK, 30 August.
10th Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology. “Syntactic and semantic agreement in the Gújjolaay Eegimaa noun class system”. Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), Germany, 15 August.
43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics. “Variations in transitivity hierarchy between non‑finite verbs in classes e– and ba– in Gújjolaay Eegimaa/Banjal”. Leiden University, The Netherlands, 26 August.
Endangered Languages Week – Africa Day. “Why are they named after death? Proper names in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. SOAS (University of London), UK, 20 May.
3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. “Documenting Ethnobotanical knowledge among Gújjolaay Eegimaa speakers”. University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA, 1 March.
South East Morphology Meeting. “The morphophonology of noun class markers in Gújjolaay Eegimaa and other Jóola languages”. University of Surrey, UK, 25 January.
2011
3rd Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory. “Semantic categorisations in the Gújjolaay Eegimaa collectives and distributives”. SOAS (University of London), 20 November.
2010
Departmental seminar series (Linguistic Colloquium). “Overt verb classification in Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Banjal)”. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, 7 December (Invited).
40th Colloquium on African languages and linguistics. “Number and noun class in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 24 August.
Categorizing Human Experience: Classification in Languages and Knowledge Systems – COST Action 31 (Stability and Adaptation of Classification Systems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective ‑ Final Conference). “Towards a Typology of Overt Verb Classification” (with Eva Schultze-Berndt). Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales – Paris, France, 15‑16 May.
People classifying people – COST Action 31 (Stability and Adaptation of Classification Systems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective). “The classification of humans in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 6-7 March.
The uses of systems of grammatical classification – COST Action 31 (Stability and Adaptation of Classification Systems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective). “The semantic bases of noun class 9 ga- in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. Åarhus University, Denmark, 5-7 February.
2009
50th Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB) – “Noun class semantics in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-8 September.
2007
10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. “Do Noun class markers classify verbs in Gújjolaay Eegimaa?”. Krakow University, Poland, 15-20 July.
2007
Atlantic languages, typological or genetic unit? “Noun class semantics in Gújjolaay Eegimaa: body parts semantics”. University of Hamburg, Germany, 17‑18 February.
2006
The Representation of Actions, States and Events in Classification Systems, Universals and Typological Diversity. “The semantics of the use of noun class markers with verb stems in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 8-10 December.
2006
36th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics. “The semantics of classes 5 bu-/bi- & ba- ; 7 fu-/fi- & fa- and 9 ga-.” Leiden University, The Netherlands, 28-30 August.
2005
35th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics. “The ‘postpréfixe’ and noun class assignment in Gújjolaay Eegimaa”. Leiden University, The Netherlands, 29-31 August.
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