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The TypeCraft Advisory Board are linguists who have agreed to give TypeCraft annotators help concerning their annotations and the on-line representation of their data. Every language family or group of languages represented in TC has its own Advisor; at present we have three advisors; we are still looking for an advisor for the Bantu languages and for the Sami languages. In addition a technical and an administrative advisor will join the team of experts.
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The TypeCraft Advisory Board are linguists who have agreed to answer questions of TypeCraft users concerning their annotations or their work on the TypeCraft wiki, and to provide guidance to the team of TypeCraft developers.  
  
 
==Biographies==
 
==Biographies==
  
===[[User:Felix Ameka|Felix Ameka]]===
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===[[User:Allen Asiimwe|Allen Asiimwe]]===
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[[Image:Allen2014.JPG|thumb|200px|left|Allen Asiimwe]]
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''Expert for [http://www.ethnologue.com/country/Ug/languages/***EDITION*** Runyakitara]''
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Allen Asiimwe teaches in the Department of African Languages at Makerere University, Kampala. She holds a Master of Philosophy (Linguistics) from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Allen graduated with a PhD in African Languages from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The title of her dissertation is "Definiteness and Specificity in Runyankore-Rukiga" (her dissertation can be accessed by following this link: http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/95926). Runyankore-Rukiga is a Bantu language cluster of Uganda.
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Her interests are in the areas of morphology and syntax of Bantu languages. She also has a passion for the language description and documentation of the lesser-studied Bantu Languages of Uganda.
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[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=309-16 Mountain-Togo-Languages]
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===[[User:Thomas Bearth|Thomas Bearth]]===
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[[Image:ThomasBearth1.jpeg|thumb|400px|right |Prof.Bearth - to the left]]  
  
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Professor Bearth is an emeritus from the University of Zürich. His research interest are:
  
[[Image:Felix.jpeg|thumb|200px|right]]
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* Syntax of natural language, discourse studies,
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* Pragmatics with special emphasis on information structure, tonology, lexicology;
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* Language as a factor of development;
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* Human language technologies in the teaching of African languages.  
  
Felix K. Ameka lectures in the Department of African Languages and Cultures of Leiden University and is also an Associate Researcher of the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. He has a wide range of interests and has fieldwork experience in Australia and West Africa. Apart from the description and documentation of languages, he is interested in the cultural, cognitive and human social interactional motivations of grammar and how speakers use grammar. He has conducted field-based research and published extensively on the grammar, semantics, and pragmatics of Ewe, his mother tongue, and on other West African languages like Akan. He is currently involved in and coordinates the documentation of four of the little studied Ghana-Togo-Mountain languages: Likpe, Logba, Nyagbo and Tafi and recently Guang languages. These languages are massively influenced by surrounding bigger languages like Ewe and Akan.
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Languages/areas of special interest:
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* [http://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/mande Eastern Mande] ([http://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/tura-dan-mano Tura and Dan]
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* [http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/krua1234 Kru (Wobe-Guere) ]
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* [http://www.ethnologue.com/language/aka/view/***EDITION*** Akan],
  
As a trained linguist, he has a continuing concern about the role of native knowledge in documentary linguistics. He is also interested in the challenges that documentary linguistics poses for linguistic training and academic linguistic practices.
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Bantu:
  
His other research interests lie in typology and comparative grammar; anthropological linguistics, ethnography of communication, cross-cultural semantics and pragmatics. He is also interested in how the structure and semantics of languages are affected and modulated over time and when they come into contact with other languages.  
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*[http://www.ethnologue.com/language/swh/view/***EDITION*** Swahili],  
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*[http://www.ethnologue.com/language/dua/view/***EDITION*** Duala],  
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*[http://www.ethnologue.com/country/ug/languages Languages of Uganda].
  
===Lars Hellan ===
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More information about Emeritus Professor Bearth you can find on his [[User: Thomas Bearth|TypeCraft user page]]
[[Image:LarsByM.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]
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'''North Germanic Languages'''
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===[[User:Joseph Bogny|Joseph Bogny]]===
  
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''Expert for the [https://www.ethnologue.com/country/CI/languages langage de Côte d'Iviore]''
  
With some background in philology and philosophy, I was brought up as an early-generation generative grammarian, with Norwegian as main field. Being theoretically first oriented towards Government-Binding theory and Montague Grammar, I later - late 90ies - moved more towards constraint-based frameworks such as HPSG, I got interested in computational grammar implementation, and since early 90ies also typologically oriented research.
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[[Image:Bogny.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Mbre village in the north of Côte d'Ivoire]]
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Joseph Y. BOGNY est enseignant-chercheur au département des Sciences du Langage et à l’Institut de Linguistique Appliquée (ILA) de l’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Cocody-Abidjan, en Côte d’Ivoire. Il enseigne la syntaxe et la linguistique historique et comparative. Ses recherches portent sur les langues Kwa et s’inscrivent dans le cadre théorique de la grammaire générative, notamment dans le programme minimaliste. Il s’intéresse aussi à l’interface syntaxe-phonologie dans les langues Niger-Congo. Il est membre du Laboratoire des Théories et Modèles Linguistiques (LTML).
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(More details on all of this can be seen on [[ Hellan_CV09+public ]].)
 
  
  
  
  
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===[[User:Vera Ferreira|Vera Ferreira]]===
  
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''Expert in Language Documentation and Revitalisation'''
  
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[[Image:Vera_Ferreira.jpeg|thumb|150px|right|Vera Ferreira]]
  
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After taking the licentiate degree in English and German Studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal, 1999) and getting an M.A. degree in General Linguistics and Linguistic Typology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich (Germany, 2000),  Ferreira started her PhD in General Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University and specialized in Language Documentation and endangered languages in Europe. 
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Since 2007, Ferreira gives courses on Language Documentation and endangered languages at the Institute for General Linguistics and Language Typology (Ludwig-Maximilian-University) in Munich. In one of these courses, she developed a multimedia dictionary of Bavarian. From 2008 to 2012, she was responsible for the documentation of Minderico within the DoBeS project financed by the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Regensburg.
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Vera Ferreira is the president of CIDLeS – Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social (Minde, Portugal) and head of its Language Documentation and Language Typology group. She is involved in several projects focusing on the documentation and study of minority/endangered languages in Europe. She holds seminars and workshops on language documentation, fieldwork, endangered languages and language typology. She is one of the Portuguese delegates of the COST Action "New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges" (IS1306).
  
===Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu ===
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===[[User:Lars Hellan|Lars Hellan]] ===
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[[Image:LarsByM.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Lars Hellan]]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages North Germanic Languages]
  
[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=GH Languages of Ghana]
 
  
[[Image:ME2.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]
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With some background in philology and philosophy, he was brought up as an early-generation generative grammarian, with Norwegian as main field. Being theoretically first oriented towards Government-Binding theory and Montague Grammar, he later - late 90ies - moved more towards constraint-based frameworks such as HPSG, and got interested in computational grammar implementation. Since early 90ies he has also been interested in typologically oriented research.
  
Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu has been working on languages of West Africa, particularly languages spoken in Ghana, since about 1962, and has been associated with the University of Ghana since 1964. She received her PhD in West African Languages from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after a BA (English and Philosophy) from Queeen's University, Kingston ON Canada and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her (relatively) recent publications include the following:
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(More details can be seen on [[User:Lars Hellan]].)
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2009    Parlons Farefari. Paris: l'Harmattan.
 
  
2007 Gurenɛ-English Dictionary Vol.1: Gurenɛ-English Dictionary Vol.2: English-Gurenɛ Glossary.  Legon: Linguistics Dept.
 
  
2006 Parlons Ga. Paris: l'Harmattan.
 
  
2005 Dagaare Grammar.  Collected Language Notes No. 26. Legon: Institute of African Studies.
 
  
2002 Ga Phonology. Legon: IAS.
 
  
2000 Ga-English Dictionary with English-Ga Index. Accra: Black Mask Publishers.(A new edition is in press)
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===[[User:Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu|Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu]] ===
  
1997 Korle Meets the Sea, a Sociolinguistic History of AccraNew York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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1988 editor and major contributor, The Languages of Ghana. London: Kegan Paul International Ltd.
 
  
1987 The Dangme Language: an introductory study.  London and Basingstoke/Accra: Macmillan/Unimax.  
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[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=GH Languages of Ghana]
 
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1981 One Voice: the linguistic culture of an Accra lineage. Leiden: African Studies Center.
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Articles:
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2008a  Ga verb features.  In Ameka and Dakubu eds., Aspect and Modality, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. 91-134.
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2008b with Felix K. Ameka, Imperfective constructions: progressive and prospective in Ewe and Dangme.  In Ameka and Dakubu eds., Aspect and Modality pp. 215-289.
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2008c  with Akosua Anyidoho, Ghana: indigenous languages, English, and an emerging national identity.  Chapter 8 in Andrew Simpson, ed., Language and National Identity in Africa.  Oxford University Press.  Pp. 141-157.
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[[Image:ME2.png|230px|right|Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu|]]
  
===Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi===
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Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu has been working on languages of West Africa, particularly languages spoken in Ghana, since about 1962, and has been associated with the University of Ghana since 1964. She received her PhD in West African Languages from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after a BA (English and Philosophy) from Queen's University, Kingston ON Canada and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2012 she has been editor-in-chief of the Ghana Journal of Linguistics, and since 2013 Chief Coordinator of the University of Ghana Readers Project. For her (relatively) recent publications follow [[User:Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu|this link to her user page ]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_languages Bantu languages]
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===Sebastian Nordhoff===
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Sebastian Nordhoff studied computational linguistics and general
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linguistics. His main interests are grammar and using computational
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tools for language description. On the grammar side, he has authored "A
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grammar of Upcountry Sri Lanka Malay", while on the technological side,
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he edited "Linked Data in Linguistics" together with Sebastian Hellmann
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and [http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/~chiarcos/ Christian Chiarcos]. Both interests converge in
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"[http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/sp04/ Electronic Grammaticography]", published as a special publication of Language
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Documentation & Conservation.
  
[[File:Lodhi.jpg|thumb|300px|right]]
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He is currently working on changing the publishing model in linguistcs
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towards the Open Access paradigm, at Language Science Press, and as a
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freelancer, where he advises linguists on how to store, process and
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publish their data.
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Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi (1945, Zanzibar), was educated in Zanzibar, Daressalaam, Stockholm, Gothenburg.
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===Marc van Oostendorp===
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonology Phonology]
  
Since 1970 he has been working with Swahili and East African Bantu languages, has conducted fieldowork in East Africa and India and as founder of Swahili and Bantuistics in the Nordic countries, he has published extensively on various branches of Swahilistics at Uppsala University since 1974. His PhD from Gothenburg is on language contacts and Oriental loans in Eastern Africa. Since 2003 he has been working on Swahili lexicography projects in Nairobi and Daressalaam.
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[[Image:Marc.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Marc van Oostendorp]]
  
His other research interests are history and cultural anthropology of the Swahili Coast and East African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean.
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Marc van Oostendorp is not only a phonologist who works for the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam and a professor at the University of Leiden, but also a 'internet pioneer'. He has built for example the project [http://cf.hum.uva.nl/dsp/ljc/english.html Laurens Janszoon Coster], a comprehensive on-line collection of Dutch literary masterpieces, and is currently working on [http://www.taalmeldpunt.nl/ Meldpunt Taal], a website where laymen can share their observations on language variation and change with researchers.
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He has also studied [http://www.ipernity.com/home/58613 Esperanto].
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In phonology, Marc works mostly on phonological microvariation, that is, the study of those phonological features that determine the differences between dialects or social classes. Furthermore, he is the editor-in-chief of the [http://www.companiontophonology.com/ Companion to Phonology], to appear in 2011 with Blackwell.
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For details please visit please visit [http://www.lingfil.uu.se my homepage]
 
  
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===[[User:Medadi_Erisa_Ssentanda|Medadi Ssentanda]]===
  
===Gautam Sengupta===
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''Expert for [http://www.ethnologue.com/country/Ug/languages/***EDITION*** Luganda]''
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language Bangla (Bengali languages)]
 
  
[[Image:Gautam.Sengupta.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]
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[[Image:Medadi.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Medadi Ssentanda]]
  
Gautam Sengupta teaches linguistics and cognitive science at the
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Medadi E Ssentanda teaches in the [[School_of_Languages,_Literature_and_Communication_-_Makerere_University|Department of African Languages at Makerere University]]. He has a PhD in Applied (General) Linguistics from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. he is a reader in early literacy development. Also, as a linguist, he is interested in the morphology of Luganda, his mother tongue.
University of Hyderabad, India, where he is currently an associate
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coordinator of the Center for Neural and Cogntive Sciences. He studied
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linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at
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Amherst. His areas of interest include formal syntax and semantics,
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philosophy of language and experimental psycholinguistics.
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Latest revision as of 17:49, 18 November 2016

The TypeCraft Advisory Board are linguists who have agreed to answer questions of TypeCraft users concerning their annotations or their work on the TypeCraft wiki, and to provide guidance to the team of TypeCraft developers.

Biographies

Allen Asiimwe

Allen Asiimwe

Expert for Runyakitara

Allen Asiimwe teaches in the Department of African Languages at Makerere University, Kampala. She holds a Master of Philosophy (Linguistics) from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Allen graduated with a PhD in African Languages from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The title of her dissertation is "Definiteness and Specificity in Runyankore-Rukiga" (her dissertation can be accessed by following this link: http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/95926). Runyankore-Rukiga is a Bantu language cluster of Uganda. Her interests are in the areas of morphology and syntax of Bantu languages. She also has a passion for the language description and documentation of the lesser-studied Bantu Languages of Uganda.


Thomas Bearth

Prof.Bearth - to the left

Professor Bearth is an emeritus from the University of Zürich. His research interest are:

  • Syntax of natural language, discourse studies,
  • Pragmatics with special emphasis on information structure, tonology, lexicology;
  • Language as a factor of development;
  • Human language technologies in the teaching of African languages.

Languages/areas of special interest:

Bantu:

More information about Emeritus Professor Bearth you can find on his TypeCraft user page

Joseph Bogny

Expert for the langage de Côte d'Iviore

Mbre village in the north of Côte d'Ivoire

Joseph Y. BOGNY est enseignant-chercheur au département des Sciences du Langage et à l’Institut de Linguistique Appliquée (ILA) de l’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Cocody-Abidjan, en Côte d’Ivoire. Il enseigne la syntaxe et la linguistique historique et comparative. Ses recherches portent sur les langues Kwa et s’inscrivent dans le cadre théorique de la grammaire générative, notamment dans le programme minimaliste. Il s’intéresse aussi à l’interface syntaxe-phonologie dans les langues Niger-Congo. Il est membre du Laboratoire des Théories et Modèles Linguistiques (LTML).




Vera Ferreira

Expert in Language Documentation and Revitalisation'

Vera Ferreira

After taking the licentiate degree in English and German Studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal, 1999) and getting an M.A. degree in General Linguistics and Linguistic Typology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich (Germany, 2000),  Ferreira started her PhD in General Linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University and specialized in Language Documentation and endangered languages in Europe.  Since 2007, Ferreira gives courses on Language Documentation and endangered languages at the Institute for General Linguistics and Language Typology (Ludwig-Maximilian-University) in Munich. In one of these courses, she developed a multimedia dictionary of Bavarian. From 2008 to 2012, she was responsible for the documentation of Minderico within the DoBeS project financed by the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Regensburg. Vera Ferreira is the president of CIDLeS – Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social (Minde, Portugal) and head of its Language Documentation and Language Typology group. She is involved in several projects focusing on the documentation and study of minority/endangered languages in Europe. She holds seminars and workshops on language documentation, fieldwork, endangered languages and language typology. She is one of the Portuguese delegates of the COST Action "New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges" (IS1306).

Lars Hellan

Lars Hellan

North Germanic Languages


With some background in philology and philosophy, he was brought up as an early-generation generative grammarian, with Norwegian as main field. Being theoretically first oriented towards Government-Binding theory and Montague Grammar, he later - late 90ies - moved more towards constraint-based frameworks such as HPSG, and got interested in computational grammar implementation. Since early 90ies he has also been interested in typologically oriented research.

(More details can be seen on User:Lars Hellan.)




Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

*27. April 1938; Boston, Mass. U.S.A † 17.November 2016; Boston, Mass. U.S.A


Languages of Ghana

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Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu has been working on languages of West Africa, particularly languages spoken in Ghana, since about 1962, and has been associated with the University of Ghana since 1964. She received her PhD in West African Languages from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after a BA (English and Philosophy) from Queen's University, Kingston ON Canada and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2012 she has been editor-in-chief of the Ghana Journal of Linguistics, and since 2013 Chief Coordinator of the University of Ghana Readers Project. For her (relatively) recent publications follow this link to her user page

Sebastian Nordhoff

Sebastian Nordhoff studied computational linguistics and general linguistics. His main interests are grammar and using computational tools for language description. On the grammar side, he has authored "A grammar of Upcountry Sri Lanka Malay", while on the technological side, he edited "Linked Data in Linguistics" together with Sebastian Hellmann and Christian Chiarcos. Both interests converge in "Electronic Grammaticography", published as a special publication of Language Documentation & Conservation.

He is currently working on changing the publishing model in linguistcs towards the Open Access paradigm, at Language Science Press, and as a freelancer, where he advises linguists on how to store, process and publish their data.


Marc van Oostendorp

Phonology

Marc van Oostendorp

Marc van Oostendorp is not only a phonologist who works for the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam and a professor at the University of Leiden, but also a 'internet pioneer'. He has built for example the project Laurens Janszoon Coster, a comprehensive on-line collection of Dutch literary masterpieces, and is currently working on Meldpunt Taal, a website where laymen can share their observations on language variation and change with researchers. He has also studied Esperanto.

In phonology, Marc works mostly on phonological microvariation, that is, the study of those phonological features that determine the differences between dialects or social classes. Furthermore, he is the editor-in-chief of the Companion to Phonology, to appear in 2011 with Blackwell.


Medadi Ssentanda

Expert for Luganda


Medadi Ssentanda

Medadi E Ssentanda teaches in the Department of African Languages at Makerere University. He has a PhD in Applied (General) Linguistics from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. he is a reader in early literacy development. Also, as a linguist, he is interested in the morphology of Luganda, his mother tongue.