Kusaal is a Mabia (Gur) Language of north-eastern Ghana and neighbouring regions in West Africa. The Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna is organizing a half-day workshop on this language on the occasion of the defence of the first PhD thesis on this and related Mabia languages at the Department. Panelists at this workshop will point out prominent aspects of the language and compare them to related Mabia, Kwa and Bantu languages with a view to outlining northworthy aspects of the language in typological perspectives.

2pm-4pm: PhD Thesis

Defence Hasiyatu Abubakari (UniWien): Aspects of Kusaal Grammar: The Syntax-Information Structure Interface

4pm-4.30pm: Break

4.30pm-6.30pm: Workshop/Panel on the Structure of Kusaal and Related Languages

Adams Bodomo (UniWien): Dagaare and Kusaal verbal derivational processes

Prof Sam Mchombo (UC Berkeley): Decolonizing African linguistics: re-visiting the paradigm from Bantu perspectives

Issah Alhassan Samuel (Frankfurt): On the Syntax of Dagbani wh-questions

7pm: Dinner