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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Historical Linguistics |
| Keywords | Bantu languages, typology, Niger-Congo languages, comparative linguistics, endangered language documentation |
| Honours and awards | 2024: Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America 2023: Humboldt Research Award |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Berlin |
| Institution | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Institute | Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann | Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2023 |
Program(s)
| 2023 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Good is known internationally for his work on the documentation and comparative linguistics of African languages and his studies of cross-linguistic variation. He has made important contributions to the methodology of documentary linguistics and to the understanding of the language dynamics of highly multilingual societies in rural African settings. During his stay in Germany, he will explore how the low-level dynamics of such societies can yield insights into the historical development of large-scale linguistic patterns in Africa. |