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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: John  B Whitman
Institution: Cornell University
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Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Subject Language(s): Japanese
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :  Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives. Volume 1
 Category Neutrality
 Proto-Japanese
 Grammatical Change
Reviewed on LINGUIST :  Grammatical Change
Dissertation Director * of: Focus Projection and Wh-Head Movement
(Yuko Yanagida, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers
(Kasumi Yamamoto, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: The Morphosyntax and Morphophonology of Japanese Predicates
(Kunio Nishiyama, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: The Acquisition of Verb Second Grammar in Child Swedish: Continuity of Universal Grammar in Wh-questions, topicalization and verb raising
(Lynn Santelmann, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: Ergativity and Word Order in Austronesian Languages
(Edith Aldridge, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: The Syntax of the Meronymic Construction
(Ignazio Mirto, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: Identifying Auxiliaries in First Language Acquisition Evidence From A New Child French Corpus
(Cristina Dye, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: The Phonetics and Phonology of Stop Lenition in Korean
(David Silva, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives
(Kazuha Watanabe, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: The Relevance of Gradability in Natural Language: Chinese and English
(Zhiguo Xie, Author)
Dissertation Director * of: Old Portuguese in Hebrew Script: Convention, contact, and convivência
(Devon Strolovitch, Author)

* This information has been submitted by the dissertation author.


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