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.

 

 

 

 

 

hannah sandeHannah Sande is an assistant professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She studies phonology and its interaction with morphosyntax, and she is specifically interested in incorporating data from understudied languages into the phonological and morphological theoretical literature. Hannah also carries out documentary work. Since the fall of 2013 she has been documenting Guébie, an endangered Kru language spoken in southwest Côte d'Ivoire. A frequent visitor to West Africa, Hannah began working as the contact for Afranaph consultants in francophone Africa in early 2015.
 
For more information about Hannah Sande, please see her website.