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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".

Sommersemester 2022

143244 VU Vertiefung afrikanische Sprachwissenschaft

143293 VU Hausa: Grammatik 2

143311 VU Hausa: Übungen 2

143319 KU Hausa: Grammatik 4

143339 VO Aspekte der Semantik und Pragmatik in afrikanischen Sprachen

143340 SE Bachelorseminar: Afrikanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

Wintersemester 2021

143116 VO Typologische Merkmale und Kontaktphänomene in afrikanischen Sprachen

143146 KU Hausa: Texte 1

143202 SE Bachelorseminar: Afrikanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

143207 VU Hausa: Grammatik 1 / Hausa: Nahawu 1

143208 KU Hausa: Grammatik 3 / Hausa: Nahawu 3

143278 VU Hausa: Übungen 1 / Hausa: Ayyukan motsa k’wak‘walwa 1

Blench, R., Weschenfelder, P., & Ziegelmeyer, G. (Angenommen/Im Druck). Introduction. in Current Research in Nilo-Saharan (S. 1-10). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Nilo-Saharan : linguistic analyses and documentation Band 31

Blench, R., Weschenfelder, P., & Ziegelmeyer, G. (Hrsg.) (2021). Nilo-Saharan: Current Research in Nilo-Saharan. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

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. Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory (EALT) Band 63

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. Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies Band 46

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. Österreichisches Deutsch - Sprache der Gegenwart Band 18

Ziegelmeyer, G. (Redakteur*in). (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". Studi Africanistici Serie Ciado-Sudanese Band 7

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. Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies Band 34

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

Ziegelmeyer, G. (Autor*in). (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. Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies Band 22

Ziegelmeyer, G., Löhr, D., & Rothmaler, E. (Hrsg.) (2011). Kanuri, Borno and Beyond - Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region. Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies 22. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

Ziegelmeyer, G. (2011). On argument focus in Kanuri. in D. Löhr, E. Rothmaler, & G. Ziegelmeyer (Hrsg.), Kanuri, Borno and Beyond - Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region (S. 191-205). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies Band 22

Cyffer, N., & Ziegelmeyer, G. (Hrsg.) (2010). Aspects of Co- and Subordination. Case Studies from African, Slavonic and Turkic Languages. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.