The Afranaph Project: Anaphora in the African Languages

The main goal of the Afranaph Project, as it is presently constituted, is to develop rich descriptions of a wide range of African languages in order to serve the interests of linguistic research into the nature and distribution of empirical patterns in natural language. The first project of our website, and still the one that is the mainstay of our research, has been to explore the distribution of anaphoric morphology and interpretation, but recent initiatives to expand the role of our empirical investigations to other sorts of linguistic phenomena will soon result in sister projects, autonomous, but linked to Afranaph in spirit, by infrastructure, and with respect to a common database.

 

 

 

 

 

Derib Ado Jekale is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Addis Ababa University (AAU). His Ph.D. dissertation (2011) is titled 'An Acoustic Analysis of Amharic vowels, plosives, and ejectives'. His MA thesis, also from AAU (2004) was 'The structure of Noun Phrase in Yem (an Omotic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia)'. His interests include experimental phonetics and phonology.