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Mag. Dr. Georg Ziegelmeyer

T: +43-1-4277-43220

georg.ziegelmeyer@univie.ac.at

I am Senior Lecturer for African Linguistics and Lecturer for Hausa.

From a geographical point of view I am mainly interested in West African languages, especially Hausa and other Chadic languages, Kanuri and its Saharan relatives, as well as Atlantic languages like Fulfulde, Wolof, and the Cangin languages. From a thematic point of view I am especially concerned with contact linguistics, language typology, as well as language description and documentation.

My main area of research in the past 20 years concerned various contact scenarios in the Wider Lake Chad Region. Between 2002 and 2010 I have been collaborator in two research projects dealing with the dynamics of linguistic change in north-eastern Nigeria. My Ph.D. thesis examines contact phenomena between the three languages of wider communication Hausa, Fulfulde, and Kanuri in the domain of adverbial subordination. In course of the projects I was also able to gather data on the Gashua variety of Bade.

In 2017 I was appointed member of the new permanent committee of BICCL (Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages), and I am also a member of the scientific committee of SYWAL (Symposium on West African Languages). In 2016 I organised the second conference (SYWAL2016) which took place at University of Vienna, and in 2019 I was the principal organizer of the 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics colloquium.

Since 2019 I am (together with Rainer Voßen) editor of “Schriften zur Afrikanistik/Research in African Studies".

Wintersemester 2025

143033 VU Hausa: Grammatik 1

143040 VU Hausa: Übungen 1

143059 KU Hausa: Grammatik 3

143060 KU Hausa: Texte 1

143066 VO Syntaktische Merkmale afrikanischer Sprachen

143340 SE Bachelorseminar: Afrikanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

Sommersemester 2025

143116 VO Einführung in die Morphologie afrikanischer Sprachen

143244 VU Vertiefung afrikanische Sprachwissenschaft

143293 VU Hausa: Grammatik 2

143311 VU Hausa: Übungen 2

143319 KU Hausa: Grammatik 4

143340 SE Bachelorseminar: Afrikanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

Wintersemester 2024

143033 VU Hausa: Grammatik 1

143040 VU Hausa: Übungen 1

143059 KU Hausa: Grammatik 3

143060 KU Hausa: Texte 1

143066 VO Phonetische und phonologische Eigenschaften afrikanischer Sprachen

143340 SE Bachelorseminar: Afrikanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2023). A Note on Expressions akin to 'Not Yet', 'Already', 'Still', and 'No Longer' in Kanuri. in B. Usman, & A. M. Bedu (Hrsg.), Linguistics and Literary Development of Network and Minority Languages in the Sub-Saharan Region: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Shettima Umara Bulakarima (S. 21-36). Scholars Press.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2023). Divergence among Bade Varieties - A Case of Nabooposition? Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 3(1), 126-146. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2785-0943/16450

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2022). Attenuation by reduplication in Hausa and beyond. Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 3, 106-119. https://doi.org/10.6093/jalalit.v3i3.9143

Blench, R., Weschenfelder, P., & Ziegelmeyer, G. (2022). Introduction. in Current Research in Nilo-Saharan: 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Vienna, 30th May – 1st June 2019 (S. 1-10). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

Blench, R., Weschenfelder, P., & Ziegelmeyer, G. (Hrsg.) (2022). Nilo-Saharan: Current Research in Nilo-Saharan: 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Vienna, 30th May - 1st June 2019. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Nilo-Saharan Band 32

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2021). What about phasal polarity expressions in Hausa – Are there any? in R. L. Kramer (Hrsg.), The Expression of Phasal Polarity in African Languages (S. 295-310). De Gruyter.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2018). A note on transitivity in Gashua Bade. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, 26, 171-183.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2017). A note on contact scenarios in the wider Lake Chad region. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, 24, 131-144.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2017). On the idiomaticity of Kanuri bu ‘eat’ and ya ‘drink’ – A case of calquing from Hausa? in G. C. Batic, & R. Leger (Hrsg.), Studia Africana: Papers in Honour of Sergio Baldi (1. Aufl., S. 156-169). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2017). On verbal and nominal plurality in languages of the Bade-Ngizim group. Language Typology and Universals, 70(1), 27–49. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2017-0003

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2016). Hausa - A pluricentric language of West Africa? in R. Muhr (Hrsg.), Pluricentric Languages and Non-Dominant Varieties Worldwide: Part I: Pluricentric Languages across Continents - Features and Usage (S. 137-148). Peter Lang.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2015). Areal Diffusion in the Chadic-Kanuri contact zone. Webpublikation

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2015). Coordination strategies in Bade and Ngizim. in G. C. Batic, & S. Baldi (Hrsg.), Selected Proceedings of the Symposium on West African Languages (S. 145-159). Universita degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale".

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2015). On the adjective class in Gashua Bade. Afrikanistik Online.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2014). Bade between its eastern and western neighbours – Past and present contact scenarios in northern Yobe State. in A. Storch, J. Harnischfeger, & R. Leger (Hrsg.), Fading Delimitations – Language and Culture in Historical Context (S. 95-112). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2013). On the verbal System of Gashua Bade. Afrikanistik Online, 10. http://www.afrikanistik-online.de/archiv/2013/3756

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2013). Focus realization in Gashua Bade. Webpublikation http://afrika.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_afrikawissenschaften/occasional_papers/paper_13_ziegelmeyer.pdf

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2013). Kanuri and its neighbours: The linguistic influence of Kanuri on languages in Borno. in T. El-Miskin, Y. Mukhtar, K. Mohammed, & A. G. Shettima (Hrsg.), Kanem-Borno: A thousand years of heritage (Band Volume 2, S. 54-81). Kraft Books Limited.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2012). Book Review. Bernard Caron (ed.): Subordination, dépendance et parataxe dans les langues africaines. (Collection Afrique et Langage, 12; SELAF 449). Louvain and Paris: Peeters. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 33(1), 125-129.

Ziegelmeyer, G., Rothmaler, E., & Löhr, D. (2011). Introduction. in D. Löhr, E. Rothmaler, & G. Ziegelmeyer (Hrsg.), Kanuri, Borno and Beyond - Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region (S. 1-6). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.