Ellen Contini-Morava (born 7 December 1948[1] ) is an American anthropological linguist, interested in the meanings of linguistic forms, discourse analysis, functional linguistics and (noun) classification; in particular, in the relationship between lexicon and grammar. She specializes in Bantu languages in general, and Swahili in particular.
Ellen Contini-Morava | |
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 Contini-Morava (left) with her husband Jack Morava near the Burgess Shale, 1971 | |
| Born | 7 December 1948 |
| Education | Columbia University 1983 (PhD) |
| Occupation | Anthropological linguist |
| Known for | Specialization in Bantu languages and Swahili |
| Honours | professor emerita |
Education and career
editContini-Morava received her PhD from Columbia University in 1983[2] under William Diver and Erica Garcia. Contini-Morava is a professor emerita at the University of Virginia.[3]
Books
editContini-Morava is the author of the book Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization: The Case of Negation and Tense-Aspect with Special Reference to Swahili (Mouton de Gruyter, 1989).[4]
Her edited volumes include Between Grammar and Lexicon (edited with Yishai Tobin, John Benjamins, 2000)[5] and Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis (edited with Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller, John Benjamins, 2004).[6]
References
edit- ↑ BnF Catalogue général
- ↑ "Complete Bibliography". Columbia School Linguistic Society. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
- ↑ "Ellen Contini-Morava, Professor Emerita", Faculty profiles, University of Virginia Department of Anthropology, retrieved 2020-09-20
- ↑ Reviews of Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization:
- Blommaert, Jan (January 1993), Journal of Pragmatics, 19 (1): 88–94, doi:10.1016/0378-2166(93)90073-x, hdl:1854/LU-386042
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dahl, Östen (June 1990), Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 13 (1): 73–75, doi:10.1017/s0332586500002122, S2CID 145768124
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Elderkin, Edward D. (1992), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 55 (2): 387–390, doi:10.1017/S0041977X00005292, JSTOR 619691, S2CID 161588525
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - King, Brian (June 1991), Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 36 (2): 196–197, doi:10.1017/s0008413100014390, S2CID 148735177
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Rueda Rueda, Mercedes (November 2016), Estudios Humanísticos. Filología (13), University of Leon: 218, doi:10.18002/ehf.v0i13.4514, hdl:10612/9473
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Schadeberg, Thilo C. (September 1990), Language, 66 (3): 584–590, doi:10.2307/414620, JSTOR 414620
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Smetánková, Irena (January 1991), "Review", Archiv Orientální, 59: 324–326, ProQuest 1304095424
- Blommaert, Jan (January 1993), Journal of Pragmatics, 19 (1): 88–94, doi:10.1016/0378-2166(93)90073-x, hdl:1854/LU-386042
- ↑ Kaye, Alan S. (March 2002), "Review of Between Grammar and Lexicon", Language, 78 (1): 210–211, doi:10.1353/lan.2002.0030, JSTOR 3086696, S2CID 143535183
- ↑ Becker, Sandra Cristina (December 2007), "Review of Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis", Language, 83 (4): 912–913, doi:10.1353/lan.2008.0011, JSTOR 40070986, S2CID 143748470
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