Chaha
About This Case File: The AQR for this file is posted and the sentence data has been entered along with entries for the analytic entries of the Anaphora Portal.
Bibliography [pdf] (Compiled by Tajudeen Mamadou Y. in Oct 2020)
Chaha Case File Consultant
Degif Petros Banksira is an Adjunt Professor in the department of linguistics at University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada. He received a Ph.D. from UQAM in 1997. From January 1998 till March 2000, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the department of linguistics and philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was an Assistant Professor of linguistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He also taught various linguistics courses as Part-time Faculty at Concordia University, UQAM, and University of Ottawa. His research interests are phonology, morphology, and their interfaces. He has published a book entitled Sound Mutation: The Morphophonology of Chaha and numerous articles focussing mainly on sound changes triggered by labialization, palatalization, and different types of fortition such as liquid nasalization, devoicing, and despirantization. He is the native speaker consultant on Chaha for the Afranaph project.
Kinyarwanda
About This Case File: Our data collection for Kinyarwanda is rudimentary and we are not collecting new data at this time. What data we have, just 35 sentences, is entered into the Afranaph Database.
Peculiarities of Loanword Allocation to the Noun Class
Kinyarwanda Case File Consultant
A Rwandan national, Dr Kayigema Lwaboshi Jacques grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He holds the first university degree, ‘Graduat’, in English and African Culture, and the second, ‘Licence’, in English from Bukavu Institute of Higher Education, DRC. Dr Kayigema Lwaboshi Jacques holds both an MA and DLitt et Phil (Doctor of Literature and Philosophy) in African Languages from the University of South Africa (UNISA). Dr Kayigema Lwaboshi Jacques has been teaching English Language and related subjects at secondary and tertiary levels since he graduated in 1982.
Currently he is working for the Adventist University of Central Africa as a lecturer in the Faculty of Education. He has held administrative positions in the same academic institution: Academic Registrar, Head of Department of English Language and Literature, and Dean of the Faculty of Education.
His special interest is sociolinguistics, with emphasis on language contact. He writes articles on loanword allocation, teaching English as an official language, and English as a Global Language and publishes books in the same area.
Makaa
About This Case File: Both the AQR and CCQR are posted and the sentences are entered into the database. Analytic entities are entered for the Anaphora Portal, but analytic entity information for the Clausal Complementation portal are incomplete. Work on an anaphora sketch is in (slow) progress.
Anaphora Questionnaire Responses [pdf]
Clausal Complementation Questionnaire Responses [pdf]
Bibliography of work on Makaa [pdf]
Xhosa
About This Case File: This file was edited and elicited by Vicki Carstens (completed 2015). Due to an oversight, the SSBQR data has been entered into the Afranaph Database (as IsiXhosa).
- Situating the Subject in Bantu QR [pdf]
Konso
About This Case File: The AQ was only partially completed, but the data we have from the posted AQR has since been entered into the database. The data was prepared in 2012..
- Anaphora Questionnaire Response [pdf]
- A grammar of Konso (Orkaydo 2013)
