Prof. Dr. phil. Tom Güldemann
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Tom Güldemann ist Sprachwissenschaftler mit Schwerpunkt auf afrikanische Sprachen. Er dokumentiert bedrohte Sprachen, untersucht ihre grammatikalischen Strukturen (besonders Nominalklassifikation und Informationsstruktur) und rekonstruiert historische Sprachbeziehungen durch typologische und genetische Analysen. Seine Arbeit verbindet Feldforschung, historische Linguistik und Areal-Typologie, um Sprachenvielfalt und Sprachkontakt in Afrika zu verstehen.
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- Prof. Dr. phil. Tom Güldemann
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- Prof. Dr. phil.
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- Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät
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- Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
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- Afrikanische Sprachen
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Forschungsthemen14
Abschluss des Vorhabens "Documentation of Laal (Chad)"
Quelle ↗Förderer: Volkswagen Stiftung Zeitraum: 07/2015 - 06/2018 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Tom Güldemann
A documentation of the remnant Baka-Gundi language Limassa
Quelle ↗Förderer: Internationale Hochschulen und Universitäten Zeitraum: 07/2016 - 06/2017 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Tom Güldemann
Cross-CRP Workshop (Veranstaltung: 15-16 Oktober 2011, Berlin)
Quelle ↗Zeitraum: 08/2011 - 01/2012 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Tom Güldemann
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Cambridge University Press eBooks · 450 Zitationen · DOI
It has been recognized for a long time that languages across a broad sub-Saharan belt from the western end of the continent to the escarpment of the Ethiopian Plateau in the east display certain linguistic affinities. At the same time, it has been difficult to identify precisely the nature and range of these affinities and to provide a plausible explanation for them.
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The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the published literature on other African as well as non- African languages. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The book may thus serve as a starting point of similar studies in other geographical areas or even with a global scope, as well as stimulate more detailed investigations of particular languages. The results of the African survey challenge several prevailing cross-linguistic generalizations regarding quotative indexes and reported discourse constructions as a whole, of which two are of particular interest. In the syntactic domain, where reported discourse has mostly been dealt with under so- called sentential complementation, the study supports the minority view that direct reported discourse and also a large portion of indirect reported discourse show hardly any evidence for the claim that the reported clause is a syntactic object complement of some matrix verb. With respect to grammaticalization, the work concludes that speech verbs are, against common belief, not a frequent source of quotatives, complementizers, and other related markers. Far more frequent sources are markers of similarity and manner; generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, and action; and pronominals referring to the quote or the speaker. Another more general conclusion of the study is that especially direct reported discourse can be fruitfully analyzed as part of a larger linguistic domain called "mimesis". This comprises expressions which represent a state of affairs by means of enactment/ performance rather than with the help of "canonical" linguistic signs and includes, besides reported discourse, world-referring bodily gestures, ideophone-like signs, and non-linguistic sound.
Nature Communications · 372 Zitationen · DOI
Southern and eastern African populations that speak non-Bantu languages with click consonants are known to harbour some of the most ancient genetic lineages in humans, but their relationships are poorly understood. Here, we report data from 23 populations analysed at over half a million single-nucleotide polymorphisms, using a genome-wide array designed for studying human history. The southern African Khoisan fall into two genetic groups, loosely corresponding to the northwestern and southeastern Kalahari, which we show separated within the last 30,000 years. We find that all individuals derive at least a few percent of their genomes from admixture with non-Khoisan populations that began ∼1,200 years ago. In addition, the East African Hadza and Sandawe derive a fraction of their ancestry from admixture with a population related to the Khoisan, supporting the hypothesis of an ancient link between southern and eastern Africa. Hunter-gatherer populations in Africa preserve unique information about human history, but genetic sub-structures of these populations remain unclear. Using newly designed microarray and statistical methods, these authors analyse genetic compositions of southern African populations and reveal an ancient link between southern and eastern Africa.
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Lokale Perspektiven auf transregionale Ver- und Entkopplungsprozesse am Beispiel von Chinas Belt-and-Road-Initiative (De:Link//Re:Link II)
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