Prof. Dr. Evelyn Shiri-Neh Fogwe

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAfrican Studies,General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Keywordspedagogical, Southern Jukunoid, dictionary, Bezen, grammar
Honours and awards

2020: Humboldt Alumni Prize Award 2020 for Innovative Networking Initiatives “Cameroon Professional Research Oriented Women Network” (CaPROWN)

2019: A sponsorship from ‘European Sommer University’ (ESU), 2019 Leipzig (Lectureship)

2019: AvH Foundation/Stiftung scholarship for a Semester (6 months) research programme

2018: A grant award from AvH to host Gender Humboldt Kolleg

2017: A grant award from ‘German Embassy in Cameroon’ for ‘A Borehole supply micro-project'

2016: A grant award from the VOLKSWAGEN Foundation/Stiftung –DOBES Programme (Project)

2014: A grant award from CERDOTOLA for Language documentation research project

2011: A grant award from the VOLKSWAGEN Foundation/Stiftung –DOBES Programme (Project)

2010: A grant award from AvH for Language documentation research project

2007: A scholarship award from AvH for post-doctorate research programme

1997: A scholarship award from DAAD for PhD studies acquisition

Current contact address

CountryCameroon
CityBuea
InstitutionUniversity of Buea
InstituteDepartment of Linguistics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Roland Ulrich KießlingAbteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2007

Programme(s)

2007Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2021Chibaka, Evelyn F. Language Technology Applications in Africa within an “Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective” Crisis. Language Technologies for All (LT4All): Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide. UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 2021. 223-226
2021Chibaka, Evelyn F.: Sustainability of Indigenous Knowledge in Ethno- medical Resources and the Challenge of Revitalization and Maintenance of the Bezen Language. . State of the Art of Indigenous Languages in Research: A Collection of Selected Research Papers. . UNESCO IYIL19 Publication, Paris, 2021. 222-239
2020 Chibaka, Evelyn F., Lilian L. Atanga & Emelda Ngufor Samba. (Eds.) Cameroon Professional Women in Sciences: A Trans-disciplinary Review, Series 1 . Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2020
2020Chibaka, Evelyn F. & Lilian L. Atanga: Gender and Transdisciplinarity: Towards Empowering Women in Science. Cameroon Professional Women in Sciences: A Trans-disciplinary Review, Series 1. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2020. 19-26
2020Chibaka, Evelyn F.: Women-Researchers’ Challenges: the case of the ‘Cameroon Professional Research Oriented Women’. Cameroon Professional Women in Sciences: A Trans-disciplinary Review, Series 1. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2020. 169-190
2018 Chibaka, Evelyn F.: Advantages of Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Multi-dimensional Research Findings. In: Sammy Beban Chumbow Bilingualism and Multilingualism. IntechOpen Limited, 2018. 15-36
2017 Chibaka, Evelyn F.: African language and culture realization in the policy, planning and developmental tier in some African states: the African Union perspectives. In: Kaji Shigeki, Proceedings of the 8th world congress of African Linguistics, Kyoto, 2015.. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) 2017. 373-398
2016 Atindogbé, Gratien G. & Fogwe Chibaka Evelyn (Eds.) Language Description and Documentation for Development, Education, and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (WOCAL-7) (Volume 1 & 2). Langaa RPCIG: Bamenda, 2016
2016 Chibaka, Evelyn F.: Issues in the analysis of verbs serialization in Meta?. In: Gratien G. Atindogbe & Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka, Proceedings of the 7th world congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012 (Vol. 2). Langaa RPCID, 2016. 837-882
2016Atindogbe, Gratien & Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka: Proceedings of the 7th world congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012 (Vol. 1 & 2). Langaa Research & Publishing CIG (Langaa RPCID ), 2016
2014 Chibaka, Evelyn F.: Akum, Ala'atening and Mankon: Dialects or Languages?A Scientific Contribution to the Language-Dialect Problematic. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2014
2013 Chibaka, Evelyn F.: The syntactic distribution of negative morphemes in Meta? . In: Nol Alembong & Joseph Che Suh, Epasa Moto: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Arts, Letters and the Humanities, Vol. 1(1). . Miraclaire Academic Publications (MAP), 2013. 53-78
2012 Chibaka, Evelyn F. & Gratien Atindogbe: 'Productive and Non-Productive Reduplication Patterns in Bantu Zone A (Northwest) Languages'. In: Pius N. Tamanji & Gabriel M. Mba Aspects of Reduplication in Languages of Cameroon and Senegal. Lincom Studies in Language Typology 23, 2012. 193-212
2012 Akumbu, Pius W.& Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka: A Pedagogic Grammar of Babanki: A Grassfields Language of Northwest Cameroon. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2012
2012 Atindogbe, Gratien & Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka: Pronouns in Cameroon Pidgin English. In: Eric A. Anchimbe Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting: the linguistic and social context of English and Pidgin in Cameroon. Walter de Gruyter, Inc, 2012. 215-244
2011 Atindogbé, Gratien G. and Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka Pronoun Serialisation in Kamtok: The Syntax-Semantic Interface . Copy Pronouns: Case Studies from African Languages . Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. 193-212
2010Chibaka, Evelyn F. The ‘Invisible’ Perception Verbs Comparison in Mankon and Metaʔ Succession-Induction Traditional Rites. Perception of the Invisible Religion, Historical Semantics and the Role of Perceptive Verbs. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 21, 2010. 293-311
2009 Atindogbé, Gratien G. and Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka Reduplication in Gunu. In: Vincent Tanda, Henry Jick and Pius Tamanji (Eds.), Language, Literature and Social Discourse in Africa. Essays in honour of Emmanuel Nges Chia. Agwecams Publishers, 2009. 136-182
2006 Chibaka, Evelyn F.: A Grammatical Description of Meta' in Relation to Focus Parametric Variation: Evident in Focalisation and Wh-fronted Question. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag 2006