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Linguistics in Tanzania

Papers & Conferences

I have written or contributed to a number of papers (links below).  If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line. 

 

A Sandawe Grammar

2010

SIL International

 

Information structure marking in Sandawe texts

2010

In: Fiedler, Ines & Anne Schwarz (eds.).

The Expression of Information Structure. A documentation of its diversity across Africa.

Typological Studies in Language (TSL) 91.

Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins

1-34

 

Object marking and aspect in Sandawe

2008

In: Ermisch, Sonja (ed.).

Khoisan Languages and Linguistics: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium

January 8-12, 2006, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal

Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

67-86

 

A description of the phonology of the Sandawe language

2008

with Daniel and Elisabeth Hunziker

SIL International

 

A Sandawe dialect survey

2007

with Daniel and Elisabeth Hunziker

SIL International

 

Sandawe

(Illustrations of the IPA series)

2006

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

36 (2)

235-242 

 

Focus as a key to the grammar of Sandawe

2005

Occasional Papers in Linguistics 1

Languages of Tanzania [LOT] Project

University of Dar es Salaam

9-37 

 

Are there serial verb constructions in Sandawe?

Paper presented at 7th LASU conference

University of Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam,  21-23 August 2003

 

I have attended the following conferences:

 

2nd International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics

University of Cologne, University of Frankfurt upon Main

Riezlern, Austria, 8-12/1/2006

"Object marking and aspect in Sandawe" 

 

Focus in African Languages

Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research (ZAS)

Berlin, 6-8/10/2005

"Information structure marking in Sandawe texts" 

 

7th Conference of Linguistics Association of SADC Universities (LASU)

University of Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam, 21-23/8/2003

"Are there serial verb constructions in Sandawe?"  

 

3rd Languages of Tanzania (LOT) Project Workshop

University of Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam, 25-26/1/2003

"Focus as a key to the grammar of Sandawe"