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It was about one and a half years ago that I finally I arrived where I had always wanted to be and do what I had always wanted-- teach students, support small language communities and conduct research on African languages on my doorstep. The University of Cape Town and my new colleagues welcomed my efforts to establish the Centre for African Language Diversity-- CALDi as well as The African Language Archive-- TALA and I was recently appointed the Mellon Research Chair: African Language Diversity this initiative. The main aim of CALDi is to train young African scholars in descriptive linguistics and open up space for research into African languages at UCT with the hopes of countering the dominance of African linguistics outside the continent. It has been a great challenge for which my whole career has been a form of preparation...Read more



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Name: Elizabeth  Cowper
Institution: University of Toronto
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Homepage: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cowper/
State and/or Country: Canada   
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Semantics
Syntax
Specialty: Inflectional categories, Features in Morphology and Syntax, Distributed Morphology, Tense, Mood & Aspect
Dissertation Director * of: The Nature of Legibility Conditions
(JunMo Cho, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: The Syntax of Sentential Stress
(Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: Features and Categories: Non-finite constructions in Finnish
(Päivi Koskinen, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: The Syntax and Semantics of Stem Composition in Ojicree
(Tanya Slavin, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: Issues in the Left Periphery of Modern Irish
(Kenji Oda, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: DETs in the Functional Syntax of Greek Nominals
(Maria Kyriakaki, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: Viewpoint Aspect in Inuktitut: The syntax and semantics of antipassives
(Bettina Spreng, Author)

* This information has been submitted by the dissertation author.


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