Lecturer for Hausa

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Office: 2.202
Phone: + 49 (0)341 - 97 37034
Office hours: Mon 13:00 - 14:00 h & after prior arrangement

Education

2000. Doctoral degree in African Studies (University of Leipzig, Institute of African Studies)

1995. D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) / Research-oriented post-graduate programme (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)

1993. Maîtrise Liguistique / Master of Arts in Linguistics (Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey)

Research projects

Loanwords in Hausa & Loanwords in Kanuri. (With Doris Löhr & H. Ekkehard Wolff). (In the framework of the International Project on Loanword Typology led by the Max-Planck-Insitute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; Coordinated by M. Haspelmath et al.).

Grammatical and Lexical Contact in the Western Lake Chad Basin. (With Doris Löhr and H. Ekkehard Wolff).

Reconstruction of Saharan Languages (Kanuri, Teda-Daza, Beria and Berti).

Further activities

Coordinator of the Leipzig DAAD Language Programme for Hausa in Azare, Nigeria.

Main Thematic Emphasis

Descriptive Linguistics (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax), Chadic and Saharan languages, Areal Linguistics, Applied Linguistics

Publications

2009. Loanwords in Hausa, a Chadic language in West and Central Africa. In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds). Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (with E. Wolff and D. Löhr).

2009. Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language west of Lake Chad. In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds). Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (with D. Löhr, in cooperation and E. Wolff).

2009. Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds). World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library, 1218 word entries. (Together with E. Wolff and D. Löhr)

2009. Kanuri vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds). World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library, 1218 word entries (with D. Löhr and E. Wolff)

2009. Quelques aspects des interférences kanuri-buduma. In Norbert Cyffer and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds). When Languages Meet. Language Contact and Change in West Africa Topics in African Studies Band 13

2009. Die Hausa-Schrift. In Kootz Anjy und Helma Pasch (Hg.). 5000 Jahre Schrift in Afrika, Entstehung –Funktionen -Wechsel. Köln: Kleine Schriften der Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln. 

2008 (forthcoming). Quelques aspects des interférences Kanuri-Buduma In Norbert Cyffer (Ed.), Proceedings Gumpoldskirchen, Vienna, November, 2005.

2007. Extension verbale en Buduma. In H. Tourneux (Ed.) Topics in Chadic Linguistics IV. Comparative and Descriptive Studies (Chadic Linguistics – Linguistique tchadique – Tschadistik; 5). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

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