Prof. Dr. Fridah Kanana Erastus

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Keywordsmorphophonology, Phonetics, Sound change, Language typology, Dialectology

Current contact address

CountryKenya
CityNairobi
InstitutionKenyatta University
InstituteDepartment of Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jonathan HarringtonInstitut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2022

Programme(s)

2021Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2024Kanana Erastus, F., Orwenjo, D.O. & Gathigia, M. N. Breaking Barriers: The Recontenxtualisation of Sheng in Kenya. . In: Bente A. Svendsen & Rikard Jonsson The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture.. Routledge, 2024. 347-361.
2024Gibson, H., Githiora, C., Kanana Erastus, F. & Marten, L. Morphosyntactic Retention and Innovation in Sheng, a Youth Language or Stylect of Kenya.. In: Studies in Language, 48, 2024, 909-950
2023Hurst-Harosh, E. & Kanana Erastus, F.: Clever or Smarter? Style and Indexicality in Gendered Constructions of Male and Female Youth Identities in Kenya and South Africa. . In: Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses. ibidem Verlag, 2023. 79-96
2023Kanana Erastus, F., & Kinyua, A. Going Back to the Roots: Indigenous language, Media Performance and Change in Kenya. . In: African Studies Review, 66, 2023, 417-440
2023Rudd, P. & Kanana Erastus, F. Hustling Vibaya: Femininities and the Modern Kenya Woman. . In: Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses. . ibidem Verlag, 2023. 189- 213
2023Cunha, C., Kanana, F. & Harrington, J. Variation and palatalisation in the production of the plural prefix in Meru: a study of three dialects. . https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104991/1/icphs_kenya.pdf. https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104991/1/icphs_kenya.pdf, 2023.
2022Erastus, F.K., Orwenjo, D.O & Gathigia, M.N. Escaping the Margins of Society: New Media and Youth Language Practices across the Rural-Urban Divide in Kenya.. In: Multilingual Margins: A Journal of Multilingualism from the Periphery, 9, 2022, 83-100