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Matthias Brenzinger: Our Featured Linguist!

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: Carol  Neidle
Institution: Boston University
Homepage: http://web.bu.edu/ASLLRP/carol.html
State and/or Country: ----------------   
Subject Language(s): American Sign Language
Russian
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :  The Syntax of American Sign Language
Reviewed on LINGUIST :  The Syntax of American Sign Language
Dissertation Director * of: The Structure of the Vietnamese Noun Phrase
(Tuong Nguyen, Author)

* This information has been submitted by the dissertation author.


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