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Maud Devos
Curriculum vitae
| since 2007 | Researcher at the linguistics department of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) as a partner in the Interuniversity Attraction Poles project on ‘Grammaticalization and (inter)Subjectification’ (http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/) |
| 2004 – 2007 | Researcher at Leiden University, ‘Shangaji. A Maka or Swahili Language of Mozambique. Grammar, Texts and Wordlist’ (with the financial support of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, SOAS, London);
Lecturer at Leiden University, Department of African Languages and Cultures
Organisation of 36th ‘Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics’ |
| 2003 – 2004 | Lecturer at Leiden University, Department of African Languages and Cultures (Language for Development, Analysis of African Language Structures, Swahili Grammar, Linguistic Fieldwork (Kinyarwanda J60 and Ngumba A80).
Organisation of 33rd ‘Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics’ |
| 2003 | Swahili lecturer at ‘Adult Education Centre, The Hague’ and Swahili lecturer at ‘Adult Education Centre, Leiden’ |
| 1998 – 2002 | Research Assistant at Leiden University: A Grammar of Makwe, a Swahili Language of Mozambique (Cabo Delgado, Palma).
Teaching tasks: Swahili Literature, Swahili Grammar, Swahili Play (Drama ?)
Organisation of 31st ‘Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics’. |
Field Work
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2007 | Naatthembo, Nampula province, Mozambique (description of Shangaci) |
| 2004 – 2005 | Naatthembo, Nampula province, Mozambique (description of Shangaci) |
| 2000 – 2001 | Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique (description of Makwe) |
| 1999 |
Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique (description of Makwe) |
Research Projects
- ‘Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification’, Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IAP) funded by the Belgian Science Policy (RMCA, Tervuren)
- ‘Shangaji. A Maka or Swahili Language of Mozambique. Grammar, Texts and Wordlist’, Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (SOAS, London)
- ‘A Grammar of Makwe, a Swahili Language of Mozambique.’ (Leiden University)
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Publications
| Since 2008 |
co-editor of Africana Linguistica |
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Devos, M., M. Kasombo Tshibanda and J. van der Auwera. Jespersen cycles in Kanincin : double triple and maybe even quadruple negation |
| (subm. 2009) |
Devos, M. and J. van der Auwera. Jespersen cycles in Bantu: double and triple negation. |
| (subm. 2009) |
van der Auwera, J. and M. Devos. Irrealis in positive imperatives and in prohibitives |
| 2008 |
The expression of modality in Shangaci. Africana Linguistica 14, 3-37. |
| 2008 |
A Grammar of Makwe. München: Lincom. |
| 2005 |
Review of Odile-Racine Issa. 2002. Description du Kikae, parler swahili du sud de Zanzibar, suivie de cinq contes. Leuven/Paris/Sterling: Editions Peeters. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 26: 95-99. |
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