2022
‘Investigating grammatical variation in Swahili’ (with Julius Taji), Rift Valley Network webinar series, 9 February 2022.
‘Investigating grammatical variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity’ (with Teresa Poeta), University of Edinburgh Linguistic Circle, 27 January 2022.
2021
‘Researching grammatical variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity’ (with Teresa Poeta). University of Gothenburg Language Structures research group, 25th November 2021.
‘Researching grammatical variation in Swahili’ (with Fridah Erastus, Tom Jelpke, Lutz Marten, Teresa Poeta and Julius Taji.) Baraza Swahili conference, 29th October 2021.
‘Multilingual classroom practices: Teacher pressures and realties’ Abralin ao vivo series. 9th October 2021. Available to watch here.
‘Post-verbal clitics and mirativity in Bemba’ (with Nancy Kula and Kyle Jerro). Online workshop on evidentiality and mirativity in Bantu. 7th October 2021.
‘Auxiliary constructions in Southern Bantu languages’ (with Kristina Riedel). Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society virtual conference. 22nd September 2021.
‘Morphosyntactic retention and change: insights from African urban youth languages’ (with Lutz Marten). British Association of Applied Linguistics. Language in Africa Special interest Group Colloquium on ‘Evolving repertoires: Youth culture and linguistic practices in Africa’. 9th September 2021.
‘Preverbal Clitic Complexes in Tanzania Rift Valley Area’ (with Andrew Harvey and Richard Griscom). Rift Valley Network webinar series. 8th September. Available to watch here.
‘Post-verbal negative particles in Southern Tanzanian Bantu’ (with Eva-Marie Bloom-Ström). Linguistics Association of Great Britain. 7th September 2021.
‘Tracing inheritance and contact in Bantu languages: Evidence from morphosyntactic variation’ (with Lutz Marten).’ Part of the workshop ‘Towards a holistic understanding of language contact in the past’ at Societas Linguistica Europaea’. 2 September 2021.
‘Shifting animacy restrictions for locatives in Swahili and beyond’ (with Lutz Marten, Kristina Riedel and Julius Taji). Language Association of Eastern Africa 2nd conference. 13th August 2021.
‘Researching language policy in Tanzania through collaborative linguistic ethnography’ (with Gastor Mapunda, Nancy Kula, Tracey Costely, Joseph Mwansa, Colin Reilly and Mompoloki Bagwasi) Language Association of Eastern Africa 2nd conference. 12th August 2021.
‘Language-in-education in Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia: Harnessing learners’ multilingual repertoires’. London Metropolitan University graduate student conference. 21 July 2021.
‘Decolonising curriculums in the UK and South Africa: comparing perspectives, challenges and practice’ (with Rajendra Chetty, Tracey Costley and Colin Reilly). Conference of the International Association of Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics 2021. 30 June 2021.
‘African linguistics after #RhodesMustFall’ (with Kristina Riedel, Jacqueline Lück and Savithry Namboodiripad). Conference of the International Association of Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics 2021. 28 June 2021.
‘Introduction: Towards a decolonial linguistics’ (with Kristina Riedel) part of the workshop entitled Towards a decolonial linguistics. 8th International Conference on Bantu languages. Online conference hosted by the University of Essex 4 June 2021.
‘For-applicative constructions in Sesotho’ (with Kristina Riedel) 8th International Conference on Bantu languages. Online conference hosted by the University of Essex 2 June 2021.
‘Post-verbal clitics and particles in Bemba: partitive and focus reading’ (with Nancy Kula and Kyle Jerro). Annual Conference on African Linguistics 51-52. 9th April 2021.
‘Using morphosyntactic features to investigate the past of Bantu-speaking-populations’ (with Peter Edelesten, Rebecca Grollemund, Rozenn Guérois, Taraka Rama and Lutz Marten). International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History. March 2021.
‘Language contact in East African Bantu: the dynamics of structural change’ Stanford University’. 29th January 2021.
‘Linguistics and social justice: a conversation for 2021’ Stanford University. 1st February 2021.
2020
‘Language contact in East African Bantu: the dynamics of structural change’. University of Kent department seminar series.
‘Beyond word order: Rangi in Comparative perspective’ Rift Valley Network webinar series. 4th November 2020.
‘Bringing the outside in: emerging insights into language use and language attitudes in Zambia primary schools’ (with Nancy Kula). University of the Free State departmental seminar series. 23rd October 2020.
‘Why you don’t know enough about African languages and what to do about it’ 20th October. Memrise. 20th October 2020.
‘Applicatives and prepositions in Bantu’ (with Lutz Marten, Maarten Mous and Kristina Riedel) Societas Linguistica Europaea Annual Meeting 2020. 28th August 2020.
‘Associated motion in Bantu languages’ Workshop on Complex Motion. SOAS University of London. 31 January 2020.
2019
‘Variation in double object marking in Old and Modern Swahili’ (with Lutz Marten). Swahili Baraza. 12 October 2019.
‘From Cape to Cairo, via Colchester’. Essex Language Teachers’ Conference. 2 July 2019.
‘Language contact in East African Bantu: (disentangling) internal and external processes of change.’ Workshop on contact between Bantu and non-Bantu languages. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. June 27th 2019.
‘Language contact in East African Bantu: the dynamics of structure change’. LangUE conference. 13th June 2019.
‘An incremental account of the light verb piga in Swahili’ Department of Language and Linguistics seminar, University of Essex. 30th May 2019.
‘Investigating morphosyntactic variation: a micro-parametric approach’ (with Kristina Riedel)’ as part of the University of the Free State January research week. 15th February 2019.
2018
‘Morphosyntactic retention and change: Insights from African urban youth languages’ at African Studies Association of the UK biennial meeting, University of Birmingham. September 2018.
‘Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili’ (with Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten) at Syntax of the World’s Languages 8, Paris. September 2018.
‘Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili’ (with Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten) as part of the workshop on ‘Variation in Swahili’ at the 7th Sintu Conference, University of Cape Town. July 2018.
Co-organised (with Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten) a workshop entitled ‘Particles in Bantu’ at the 20th International Congress of Linguists, Cape Town. July 2018.
‘Multilingualism and code-switching in Dynamic Syntax’ (with Lutz Marten) at the 2nd Dynamic Syntax Conference, University of Edinburg. April 2018.
2017
‘The interaction between tense-aspect and information structure in Bantu‘ Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 11th December 2017.
‘Particles in Bantu’ (with Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten) Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting, University of Kent. 4-7th September 2017.
‘Language change in East African Bantu: multilingualism and its effects’ Workshop on non-dominant speakers of agents of language change. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas. 31st July-4th August 2017.
‘Morphosyntactic micro-variation in Bantu: A parametric approach and three case studies’ (with Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten) International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas. 31st July-4th August 2017.
‘Dynamic developments in the marking in Bantu diminutives’ Workshop on Morphological complexity and nominal classification at SOAS University of London 21st June 2017.
‘Introduction to parametric variation research in Bantu’ (with Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten) Ghent University, Belgium, 31st March 2017.
‘Contact and change in East African Bantu’ University of Essex Linguistics Departmental seminar, 16th March 2017.
‘Parametric approaches to morphosyntactic variation in Bantu’ Paper presented at a workshop on morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. March 2-3rd 2017.
‘Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu: contact and change’. Ghent University. 6th December 2016.
2016
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Diagnosing contact in the Mara region’. Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 5, SOAS University of London. 3-4 December 2016.
Gibson, Hannah and Lutz Marten. ‘Language contact and innovation: Insights from colloquial varieties of Swahili, Sheng and African youth languages.’ SOAS Swahili Baraza II, SOAS University of London. 29 October 2016.
Gibson, Hannah, Chege Githiora, Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten. ‘Parametric approaches to morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: a comparative-typological account of negation‘. Syntax of the World’s Languages VII , Autonomous University of Mexico, 17-19 August 2016.
Gibson, Hannah and Rozenn Guérois ‘The encoding of complex motion events in Bantu: variation and distribution‘. Syntax of the World’s Languages VII, Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 20 August 2016.
Gibson, Hannah ‘A dynamic approach to the grammaticalisation of Bantu auxiliary constructions: context and change‘. Languages as Mechanisms of Interaction, University of Ghent. 23-24 June 2016.
Gibson, Hannah and Rozenn Guérois ‘Parametric approaches to negation in Bantu‘ Sixth international Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu 6), University of Helsinki, 20-23 June 2016.
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Language contact in East African Bantu: Insights from word order‘. Sixth international Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu 6), University of Helsinki, 20-23 June 2016.
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Language contact at the northern Bantu borderlands‘. Invited lecture at the University of Gothenburg, 23 May 2016.
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Towards an account of deictic particles in Rangi‘. Invited lecture at the University of Gothenburg, 24 May 2016.
Gibson, Hannah and Rozenn Guérois ‘Variation, contact and convergence in Bantu‘. 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), University of California, Berkeley, 23-26 March 2016.
Gibson, Hannah. ‘The grammaticalisation of verb-auxiliary order in East African Bantu: past, present, future and beyond‘. 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), University of California, Berkeley, 23-26 March 2016.
Gibson, Hannah and Lutz Marten. ‘Anaphora with lexical content words: across the nominal and verbal domains‘. Workshop on incremental Grammar from Asian and African Language Perspectives, SOAS University of London, 17 May 2016.
Gibson, Hannah, Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten. ‘Grammaticalisation pathways in Bantu auxiliary systems.’ Second International Conference on Grammaticalization, University of Rouen, 25-27 April 2016.
2015
Gibson, Hannah and Lutz Marten. ‘Structural retention and innovation in youth languages: Insights from morphosyntactic variation and convergence in Bantu‘. 2nd Conference on African Urban Youth Languages, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, 11-13 December 2015.
Gibson, Hannah, Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten. ‘A typology of copulas and non-verbal predication in Bantu’. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Annual Meeting, University College London, London. 15-18 September 2015.
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Verb-auxiliary order in East African Bantu’ Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics. Leiden University. 31 August-1st September 2015 .
Gibson, Hannah, Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten. ‘Morphosyntactic variation and language contact in Bantu’. Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics. Leiden University. 31 August-1 September 2015 .
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Contact, change and convergence in Bantu: The case of Rangi’. World Congress on African Language, Kyoto. Japan. 20-24th August 2015.
Gibson, Hannah and Oliver Stegen ‘Word order and information structure in Rangi’. Information Structure in Endangered Languages. SOAS, University of London. 8-9 May 2015.
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Approaches to research: Interviews and beyond’. Talk at the Centre for International Development, University of Edinburgh. February 2015.
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Conducing research in East Africa: Thoughts and considerations.’ Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh. February 2015.
Gibson, Hannah. ‘Contact and change at the northern Bantu borderlands’. Linguistics Departmental Seminar, SOAS, University of London. February 2015. [video of the talk].
Gibson, Hannah ‘Underspecification in multi-verb constructions: Building meaning in context’. Interactions between syntax and semantics across frameworks. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. January 2015
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