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Director: Ken Safir, Rutgers University |
 Ken Safir is a professor in the department of linguistics at Rutgers University, a department he helped to found in 1989, seven years after receiving his Ph.D. from MIT. He is a linguistic theorist and syntactician with interests in the syntax-semantics interface and the nature of linguistic of anaphora in particular. He served has also served as editor of the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, of which he was also one of the founding editors. He has studied definiteness effects, the null subject parameter, crossover effects, small clauses, parasitic gaps, the structure of nominals and relative clauses and many other phenomena, but for the last 15 years much of his work has been devoted to the locality and interpretation of anaphoric relations and the connection between these relations and the morphology of anaphors, as evidenced by many of his recent publications, including The Syntax of Anaphora, published in 2004 by Oxford University Press, and The Syntax of (In)Dependence, published by MIT Press, also in 2004. In addition to new work on transitivity and reflexivity informed by his work for the Afranaph project, he is also working from a minimalist perspective on some fundamental architectural properties of the theory of syntax.
For more information about Ken Safir, please see his website. |
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Associate Director: Oluseye Adesola, Yale University |
 Oluseye Adesola received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2005 and is an assistant professor at the Yale University. He designed the original website for the Afranaph projects and continues to provide oversight, outreach and support for Afranaph, and is also our consultant for Yoruba. His research interests include Yoruba Studies, Comparative Syntax, African Culture and Literature, African Linguistics, Syntactic Theory, Anaphora, Wh-movement Constructions and Focus Constructions.
For more information about Oluseye Adesola, please see his website. |
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Assistant Director (and research assistant): Carlo Linares-Scarcerieau |
 Carlo Linares-Scarcerieau is a graduate student in the department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. He has been in charge of data entry management, communication with consultants and case workers, he has taken over the management of several cases and is developing new projects and features for the site. His research interests include comparative syntax, case/agreement systems, A-movement, and phrase structure theory.
For more information about Carlo Linares-Scarcerieau, please contact him via
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Database Design: Alexis Dimitriadis |
 The online database that Afranaph uses is a customized version of a family of databases designed by Alexis Dimitriadis. Alexis worked closely with the Afranaph staff to adapt his design to our needs, bringing both his technological and linguistic skills to bear, a combination that has been indispensable for the success of our project.
Alexis Dimitriadis obtained his M.A. degree in Mathematics from Portland State University, and the Ph.D. degree in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a senior research associate at the Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS. He has participated in several technology-related projects, including the Berlin-Utrecht Reciprocals Survey, for which the software behind the Afranaph database was developed, and the Typological Database System. His primary research interests include the semantics and typology of reciprocals, anaphoric and pronominal reference, Greek linguistics, and Bantu linguistics.
For more information about Alexis Dimitriadis, please contact him via email. |
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Website Design: John Amodeo |
 Our new website was designed by John Amodeo, who formerly served Rutgers University as both Associate Director of Information Technology (SAS/NB) from 2001-2006 and Manager of Computer Services from 1998-2001. John currently works as an IT consultant specializing in internet marketing, website design, and social networking services for various commercial, government, and political entities.
For more information about John Amodeo, please please contact him via
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Current and Former Native Speaker Linguist Consultants* |
Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Oluseye Adesola, Yale University (USA)
Derib Ado, Addis Abbaba University (Ethiopia)
Rose Aziza, Delta State University (Nigeria)
Oumarou Boukari, University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Noureddine Elouazizi, U. of British Columbia (Canada)
Alex Iwara, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)
Angela Kioko, United States International University (Kenya)
Lynn Kisembe, no current affiliation information
Rose Letsholo, University of Botswana (Botswana)
Philip Ngessimo Mutaka, University of Yaounde 1 (Cameroon)
Juvenal Ndayiragije, University of Toronto (Canada)
Justine Sikuku, Moi University (Kenya)
Ron Sylvester Simango, Rhodes University (South Africa)
Willie Udo Willie, currently unaffiliated
*We only include here those who have completed an AQ response or who have sent us large enough portion of the AQ response to permit follow-up work to begin. There are many other consultants currently involved in the project whose names will be added when they pass that threshold. |
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Oluseye Adesola
Carlo Linares-Scarcerieau
Michael O’Keefe
Ken Safir
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Current Data Entry Specialists |
James Bruno is a graduate student in linguistics at Rutgers University
Stephen Chiew is an undergraduate at Rutgers University
Jenna Schaal-O’Connor is an undergraduate at Rutgers University
Eric Wirkerman is a graduate student in the linguistics department at Rutgers University
Micheal O’Keefe
Carlo Linares-Scarcerieau |
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Former Research Assistants |
Michael O’Keefe - 2007-2008 - Michael is a graduate student in the department of linguistics at Rutgers University. He made important contributions to the transition between the old and new websites, developed our glossing standards and procedures for database entry, and managed several cases, particularly Ibibio, which he continues to manage. He remains an active participant in the project. His primary research interests are in phonology, specifically tone, stress, and learnability, and in syntax, specifically reciprocals and anaphora. Michael remains an active member of the project, both as a case worker and for data entry. For more information, please visit his website.
Sarah E. Murray - 2006-2007 - Sarah is a graduate student in the department of linguistics at Rutgers University. In addition to her role as a research assistant, she made important contributions to the development of the new database and website and continues in an advisory role. Her primary research interests are in formal semantics, focusing on evidentials, the many varieties of anaphora (modal, temporal, in discourse, etc.), and fieldwork (Cheyenne). For more information, please visit her website.
Jessica Rett - 2005-2006 - After getting her Ph.D.in linguistics from Rutgers University in 2008, Jessica became an assistant professor at UCLA. For more information, please visit her website.
Oluseye Adesola - 2004-2005 - Oluseye remains an active member of the project as associate director (as above) |
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Seunghun Lee, assistant professor, Connecticut College, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Xiao Li, assistant professor, CUNY, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Sophia A. Malamud, assistant professor, Brandeis University
Andre Nuendel, graduate student in linguistics, Rutgers University
James Thompson, former Rutgers undergraduate, graduate in linguistics at UBC, Canada
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