Ellen Contini-Morava
Encyclopedia
Ellen Contini-Morava is an anthropological
linguist at the University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences
, interested in cognitive linguistics
issues, Discourse analysis
, and (noun) classification http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/swahili/; in particular, in systems between lexicon and grammar in size. She received her PhD from Columbia School of Linguistics
in 1983 under William Diver
and Erica Garcia
; she specializes in Bantu languages
in general, and Swahili
in particular.
Linguistic anthropology
Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages, and has grown over the past 100 years to encompass almost any aspect of language structure and...
linguist at the University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences
University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences
The University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the largest of the University of Virginia's ten schools. Consisting of both a graduate and an undergraduate program, the College comprises the liberal arts and humanities section of the University...
, interested in cognitive linguistics
Cognitive linguistics
In linguistics, cognitive linguistics refers to the branch of linguistics that interprets language in terms of the concepts, sometimes universal, sometimes specific to a particular tongue, which underlie its forms...
issues, Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis , or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken, signed language use or any significant semiotic event....
, and (noun) classification http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/swahili/; in particular, in systems between lexicon and grammar in size. She received her PhD from Columbia School of Linguistics
Columbia School of Linguistics
The Columbia School of Linguistics is a group of linguists with a radically functional and empirical conception of language. According to their school of thought, the main function of language is communication. Columbia School linguistic analyses typically are based on observable data, such as...
in 1983 under William Diver
William Diver
William Diver was the founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics, named after the university in New York where he taught linguistics from 1955 through 1989, and where he received his Ph.D. in comparative Indo-European linguistics...
and Erica Garcia
Erica Garcia
Erica García, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a composer, singer and an actress of Argentinian-American descent. She has been nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2000 for Best Female Rock Artist for her popular tune "Vete Destino".-Musical career:...
; she specializes in Bantu languages
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages constitute a traditional sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages...
in general, and Swahili
Swahili language
Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
in particular.
External links
- Ellen Contini-Morava’s home page at the University of Virginia Department of Anthropology
- Noun Classification in Swahili
- The Kamusi Project
- Bantu Lexical Reconstructions III