Prof. Dr. Gideon Sunday Omachonu

Profile

Academic position	Full Professor
Research fields	African Studies,General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Keywords	documentation, description, morphosyntactic features, reference, grammar
Honours and awards	2021: Awarded a Distinction by the National Universities Commission in partnership with the Open University of Nigeria, Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi-Africa) and African Quality Assurance Network (AfriQAN) at Virtual Institute for Capacity Building in Higher Education (VICBHE) in a Six Week Training Course on Theory, Practice, and Future Developments in Accreditation in Higher Education, August 31-October 11, 2021. 2020: Fellow, Linguistic Association of Nigeria (FLAN)

Current contact address

Country	Nigeria
City	Abuja
Institution	National Open University of Nigeria
Institute	Department of Linguistics, Foreign and Nigerian Languages

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann	Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimow	Lehrstuhl für Afrikanistik II, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Roland Ulrich Kießling	Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship	01/09/2011

Programme(s)

2011	Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2017	Gideon Sunday Omachonu: Language Documentation and Description: A Programmatic Response to Language Death and Endangerment in Nigeria. Al-Mumtaz Publishers Ltd, 2017
2016	Gideon Sunday Omachonu: Vowel Sequence and Phonemic Status of /h/ and /?/ in Igala. In: Ihafa: A Journal of African Studies , 2016, 154-175
2015	Gideon Sunday Omachonu: Language endangerment in Northern Nigeria: The case of Igala. In: Martin Pütz & Neele Mundt Vanishing Languages in Context. Peter Lang, 2015. 279-294
2013	Gideon Sunday Omachonu: Headedness and Demarcation between Nominal Compound and Noun Phrase in Ígálà. In: O-M. Ndimele, L.C. Yuka & J.F.Ilori, Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics: A Festschrift for O̩ladele Awobuluyi. M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd, 2013. 103-124
2013	Gideon Sunday Omachonu & Philip Nweke Anagbogu: Headedness and Demarcation in Nominal Compounds: Evidence from Ígálà, Ìgbò, Kọ̀ríng and Yorùbá. In: Journal of West African Languages (JWAL) , 2013, 1-17
2012	Gideon Sunday Omachonu: Comparative Analysis of the Numeral Systems of Igala, Yoruba, German and English. In: Linguistik online, 2012, 57-73
2012	Gideon Sunday Omachonu & David Areo Abraham Compounding in Igala: Defining Criteria, Forms and Functions.. In: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities (UJAH), 2012, 184-206
2012	Gideon Sunday Omachonu, Williams Sunday Onogu: Determining Compoundhood in Igala: From Universal to Language Specific Focus. In: Journal of Universal Language, 2012, 91-117
2012	Gideon Sunday Omachonu, Philip Nweke Anagbogu: Nigeria at 50: Language Studies and Language Policy. . In: Wolfgang Bokelmann, Olayemi Akinwumi, Uche M. Nwankwo, Anthony O. Agwuele African Leadership Challenges and other Issues.. Mediateam IT Educational Publishers. 2012. 96-204
2011	Gideon Sunday Omachonu, Eleojo M. A. Adama: Assimilation and Syllable Structure Processes in Igala. In: The Nasara Journal of Humanities, 2011, 66-82
2011	Gideon Sunday Omachonu: Derivational Processes in Igala Numeral System: Some Universal Considerations. In: Journal of Universal Language , 2011, 81-101
2011	Gideon Sunday Omachonu: Igala Language Studies: Progress, Issues and Challenges. In: Gideon Sunday Omachonu, Igala Language Studies. LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011. 15-45
2011	Gideon Sunday Omachonu: Igala Phonetics and Phonology. In: Gideon Sunday Omachonu, Igala Language Studies. LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011. 46-75