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Why Ukaan is hard to classify (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salffner, S., & Sands, B. (2012, September). Why Ukaan is hard to classify. Paper presented at The Niger-Congo International Congress, Center for African Linguistics, Languages and Cultures, Paris

In this paper, we look at Ukaan, an endangered minority language spoken in south-western Nigeria. Ukaan has not been investigated much but has nonetheless received a great number of rather different classifications, most recently as an Edoid language... Read More about Why Ukaan is hard to classify.

Video tutorials for doing palatography (2012)
Digital Artefact
Salffner, S., & Tzika, M. (2012). Video tutorials for doing palatography. [online]

This set of video clips is a series of six short tutorials on doing static palatography, a research method in articulatory phonetics. Part 1 shows all the equipment needed for palatography, Part 2 shows how to mix the palatography paint, Part 3 discu... Read More about Video tutorials for doing palatography.

Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection (2012)
Book Chapter
Salffner, S. (2012). Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection. In R. Blench, & S. McGill (Eds.), Advances in Minority Language Research in Nigeria (137-190). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

This paper reports on aspects of the verbal morphology of Ikaan, an endangered minority language spoken in Nigeria. In addition to regular and obligatory tense-aspect-mood inflection, Ikaan shows a range of optional morphemes in the verb which transl... Read More about Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection.