Prof. Dr. Thilo C. Schadeberg

Profil

Derzeitige StellungEmeritus
FachgebietAfrikanistik
KeywordsAfrikanistik, Bantu, Linguistics, Swahili Grammatik

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandNiederlande
OrtLeiden
Universität/InstitutionLeiden University
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Languages and Cultures of Africa

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Gudrun MieheLehrstuhl für Afrikanistik I, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.03.2004

Programm(e)

2003Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Professor Schadeberg is one of the leading africanists in the field of Niger-Congo languages, where he in particular did basic research on hitherto unknown Bantu and Kordofanian languages. He made seminal contributions to tonological and phonological issues of African languages as well as in the field of historical comparative linguistics. Based on his life-long research on Swahili, especially in recent years on its southern outliers in Mocambique, he aims at preparing a modern reference grammar of Swahili, urgently needed in academic teaching and to be uesed by wider general linguists' audience.

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2009Thilo C. Schadeberg: Tira and Otoro. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2009