NILOMORPH
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ERC Synergy Grant-funded project on the evolution of suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic. PIs: Matthew Baerman (U. of Surrey), Bert Remijsen (FU Berlin), Lameen Souag (CNRS). https://nilomorph.eu/
New chapter by Bert Remijsen and Otto Gwado Ayoker: Intransitive verbs in Shilluk scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/91be80...
Chapter 8: Intransitive verbs in Shilluk
This chapter presents a comprehensive descriptive analysis of intransitive verbs in Shilluk. The analysis covers form classes, inflectional morphology, and derivational processes. We identify 25 disti...
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New paper by project member Tatiana Reid in SAL: "The Nuer vowel grade system" This paper focuses on the interrelated alternations in vowel quality and voice quality, showing how these two parameters are used to encode inflection and derivation journals.flvc.org/sal/article/...
The Nuer vowel grade system | Studies in African Linguistics
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Bert Remijsen (NILOMORPH co-PI), Ismael Akil, and Otto Gwado Ayoker just published Chapter 7 of the ongoing Descriptive Grammar of Shilluk, in Open Access: Complex Clauses and Serialization in Shilluk scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/b5f01a...
Chapter 7: Complex Clauses and Serialization in Shilluk
This chapter describes a variety of complex clause constructions, ranging from those closest to clauses headed simply by an inflected verb, to those closest to sequences of two clauses. At the bottom ...
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3 PhD positions available at Edinburgh University. Come work with us on West Nilotic languages! registryservices.ed.ac.uk/scholarships...
ERC Synergy Nilomorph PhD Scholarship: Describing West Nilotic Languages | Scholarships and Student Funding | Student Administration
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is inviting applications for three postgraduate studentships that offer four years of funding and extensive associated resources.
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5-year (!) postdoc opportunity: Join our Edinburgh team and do fieldwork on the Burun languages! Deadline for application: 17 December. Position starts March 1st, 2025 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
New West Nilotic-related publication (on Ngok Dinka) by Mirella Blum (2025): Heritage Tone and Effects of the Obligatory Contour Principle brill.com/view/journal...
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Morphology conference rescheduled (because the original date collided with the Champions League final): nytud.hu/esemeny/22nd...
Confs: Workshop at the International Morphology Meeting 22: The Evolution of Non-Concatenative Morphology
Confs: Workshop at the International Morphology Meeting 22: The Evolution of Non-Concatenative Morphology
Invited speaker: Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh) Morphological alternations can be realized through the concatenation of affixes, or through non-concatenative processes that do not involve the addition of segmental material, such as modifications of suprasegmental features (e.g. length or tone), or the featural constituents of segments (e.g. vowel height, consonantal manner of articulation). The two nouns below, from Nuer (a West Nilotic language of South Sudan and Ethiopia), illustrate
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New publication on Dinka by NILOMORPH member Mirella Blum - "Dialectal tone description enhances historical tonology", in @diachronica.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Dialectal tone description enhances historical tonology | John Benjamins
Abstract This paper illustrates that in-depth descriptive work of closely related varieties of Dinka, a Nilotic tone language with an unusually complex suprasegmental system, provides solutions to pre...
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🔎 Et si une seule syllabe pouvait porter tout un sens? Le linguiste Lameen Souag (CNRS) décrypte dans cet article des langues comme le #Dinka, où intonation et ton font sens. Avec le projet Nilomorph, il explore ce que cela dit de l’origine du langage. À lire ici 👉 bit.ly/44OtpU7
New project publication: "Analogical change in Dinka vowel alternations", by Matthew Baerman and Mirella Blum (Morphology, 2025) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Analogical change in Dinka vowel alternations - Morphology
Verbs in Dinka (West Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan) are largely monosyllabic, but nonetheless the language displays a rich inventory of inflectional and derivational forms realized through alternations of the...
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NILOMORPH job opportunity: become a Research Fellow in Language Data Science, at the University of Surrey. jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
NILOMORPH has begun! Over the course of the next 6 years, thanks to an @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant, we'll be trying to figure out how West Nilotic languages such as Dinka and Nuer managed to stuff most of their morphology inside monosyllabic roots.