Recent and current research
Articles
Changing profile when encroaching on hunter-gatherer territory: Towards the history of the Khoe-Kwadi family in southern Africa [PDF]
Person-gender-number marking from Proto-Khoe-Kwadi to its descendents: a rejoinder with particular reference to language contact [PDF]
Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming t. How typology can inform philology: quotative jn in Earlier Egyptian. In Richter, Sebastian and Martin Haspelmath (eds.), Language typology and Egyptian-Coptic linguistics. Typological Studies in Language Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF]
Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming u. Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: macro-areal typology and linguistic reconstruction. In Nakagawa, Hirosi, Christa König and Osamu Hieda (eds.), Geographical typology of African languages. Typological Studies in Language Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF]
Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming a. Speaker-predicating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type. In Alphen, Ingrid van and Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), Quotatives: cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF]
Projects
+ "The Kalahari Basin area: a ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction" in the CRP in the EUROCORES program: Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages (EuroBABEL) of the European Science Foundation (2010-2012) (http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/running-programmes/eurobabel/projects/list-of-projects.html#c35568)
+ "Inheritance and contact in a language complex: the case of Taa varieties (Tuu family)" in the Collaborative Research Project (CRP): The Kalahari Basin area: a ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction (see 7 below) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2010-2012)
+ "Predicate-centered focus types: A sample-based typological study in African languages" B7 in the SFB 632: Informationsstruk-tur: Die sprachlichen Mittel der Gliederung von Äußerung, Satz und Text of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2009-2010) (http://www2.hu-berlin.de/predicate_focus_africa/en/index.html)
+ "A text documentation of N|uu " in the research program 'Endangered Languages Project (ELDP), School of Oriental and African Studies London' of the Hans Rausing Foundation (2007-2010,
project staff: M.A. Martina Ernszt, M.A. Sven Siegmund, M.A. Alena Witzlack-Makarevich)
(http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=131)
+ "A pan-dialectal documentation of Taa" together with R. Kießling in the research program 'Documentation of endangered languages' of the VW Foundation (2007-2009, project staff:
Dr. Gertrud Boden, M.A. Christfried Naumann), extension of following
(http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/taa)
+ "Documentation of Western !Xõo" together with R. Kießling in the research program 'Documentation of endangered languages' of the VW Foundation (2004-2006, project staff: Dr. Gertrud Boden, M.A. Christfried Naumann)
+ P7 "Focus in South African Languages" together with M. Krifka in the research program of the 'Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung' (2003-2005, project staff: Dr. M. Cysouw (until 2004), Dr. Laura Downing, M.A. Sabine Zerbian, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Rebecca Voll)
Organized conferences and workshops
AG 'Form und Funktion der Redewiedergabe' with M. von Roncador, Halle, 2005 at the DGfS-Jahrestagung
International Conference 'Focus in African Languages' with L. Downing, B. Reineke, K. Hartmann , Berlin, 2005 at the ZAS Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin
International Workshop 'The morphosyntax of Khoe languages', Leipzig, 2006 at the MPI-EVA [PDF]
International Workshop 'Historical linguistics and hunter-gatherer populations in global perspective', Leipzig, 2006 at the MPI-EVA (http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/HunterGathererWorkshop2006/)
Berlin Workshop 'Genealogical language classification in Africa beyond Greenberg', Berlin, 2010 at the Humboldt University Berlin
Conference presentations
Negation in the Gulf of Guinea creoles: typological and historical perspectives [PDF]
Ditransitives in the Tuu family [PDF]
Towards the synchronic macro-areal profile of Africa [PDF]
The alleged grammaticalization of quotative~complementizers in Atlantic creoles: a West African substrate perspective [PDF]
The history of quotative predicatives: Can lexical properties arise out of a grammatical construction? [PDF]
Linear order as a basic morphosyntactic factor in Non-Khoe Khoisan [PDF]
Noun categorization, agreement, and "janus-headed" compounds in Western !Xõo [PDF]
"Khoisan" linguistic classification in the light of genetic, anthropological, and geographical evidence in southern Africa [PDF]
Participant marking in Sinitic viewed from a Tuu perspective [PDF]
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