A two-day workshop on Dynamics of Change in Multilingual Societies: Case Studies of Northern Nigeria has taken place in the University of Maiduguri. The workshop, jointly organized by the Centre for Tran-saharan Studies (CTSS), University of Maiduguri, Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Maiduguri and Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, commenced on Monday 8th February 2010 around 9.30 a.m in the Centre for Tran-saharan Studies. It was declared open by the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Mala M. Daura. Professor Nur Alkali, the Director, Centre for Tran-saharan Studies, was the Chairman of the occasion, while Professor Rotimi Badejo of the Department of Languages and Linguistics served as the Master of Ceremony. All the three scholars gave short, but inspiring speeches, stressing the importance of such workshops.
A programme released by the organizing committee of the workshop was as follows:
TIME ACTIVITY REMARKS
Monday 8/02/2010
9.00-11.00hrs OPENING CEREMONY
Guest of Honour:
Alhaji Dr Shettima Ali Monguno CFR, FNMGS
Speakers:
• Head of Department of Languages & Linguistics
• Prof. M. Nur Alkali, Director (CTSS)
• Prof. Norbert Cyffer, Director. (IAS, Vienna) Chairman, Prof. M.M. Daura, Vice Chancellor
11.30-13.00 hrs • Georg Ziegelmeyer: Language Contact in Northern Nigeria Towards a Linguistic Area?
• Abba Kura Shettima and Mohammed Alhaji Modu: Investigating obsolescence: A Case of Contraction in Kanuri
13.00-14.30 hrs Tea Break
14.30-16.00 hrs 2ND SESSION {Chairman: Prof. Abdulhamid Abubakar}
• Andrew Haruna: Linguistic diversification and extinction in Southern Bauchi Area: A Case Study of Gùrdù and Bùgalambu
• Aisha I. Ahmed: The disappearance of the middle voice in Adamawa Fulfulde
16.00-16.30 Tea Break
3RD SESSION {Chairman: Prof. M.O. Attah}
• Jidda Hassan Juma’a: Subordinating elements in code-switching structure
• B.R. Badejo: A cognitive semantic analysis of the emerging English in North-Eastern Nigeria

18.30 hrs BUFFET





Tuesday 09/02/2010
9.30-11.00 hrs 4TH SESSION {Chairman: Dr Yaganami Karta}
• Norbert Cyffer: The changing Linguistic Landscape in the Lake Chad Area
• Mohammed A. Modu & Sheriff Abdulkadir: Oral Literature from a dying culture in the Chad Basin Area: A Case Study of lemi-lemi poem

11.00-11.30 hrs Tea Break
5TH SESSION {Chairman: Prof. S. U. Bulakarima}
• Bosoma Sheriff: Dynamics of Kanuri invocations and Imprecations
• Doris Löhr: Exploring the eastern fringes of the Lake Chad contact-Examples from Kanembu
• Mohammed Munkaila Mohammed: Locative predication in Chadic


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