This project aims to establish a new perspective on the multilingual nature of Sub-Saharan Africa by focusing on linguistic features uniquely observed on the African continent. We explore not only well-studied typological subjects but also unique linguistic phenomena arising in African multilingual environments that have tended to be ignored in the literature. This project also aims for a better understanding of African languages and translingual ecology by expanding the scope of traditional research on African linguistics by strengthening scholarly networks of African linguistics in Japan.
Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing), ILCAA Joint Research Project “Phonetic typology from cross-linguistic perspectives”
Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
“Introduction: Linguistic description in translingual ecology in Africa”
1. Andries COETZEE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Michigan)
“Patagonian Afrikaans: Identity and History in a Bilingual Speech Community”
2. Nico NASSENSTEIN (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
“The role of Lingala in Eastern Congo’s Swahili ecologies and young speakers’ repertoires (Goma/Lubumbashi)”
Organized by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)
1. Kyoko KOGA (ILCAA Joint researcher, Kochi University)
“Syntactic alternation of possessive and existential sentences in Akan”
Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)
Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)
“A typological analysis on the linguistic means by which people speaking different languages form a unified communication field: with special reference to the multilingual situations in western Uganda”