The Afranaph Project: Anaphora in the African Languages

The main goal of the Afranaph Project, as it is presently constituted, is to develop rich descriptions of a wide range of African languages in order to serve the interests of linguistic research into the nature and distribution of empirical patterns in natural language. The first project of our website, and still the one that is the mainstay of our research, has been to explore the distribution of anaphoric morphology and interpretation, but recent initiatives to expand the role of our empirical investigations to other sorts of linguistic phenomena will soon result in sister projects, autonomous, but linked to Afranaph in spirit, by infrastructure, and with respect to a common database.

 

 

 

 

 

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Last Updated on Monday, 21 February 2022 16:51

Afranaph Project receives new 3 year grant

The NSF has awarded Ken Safir, as Principal Investigator, a three-year grant for his proposal entitled “Exploring boundary conditions on the theory of agreement through the comparative study of African languages”. The new grant begins September 1, 2018. See the Project Summary and the Project Description for NSF BCS-1829122 for details. The Project description includes a partial listing of the achievements of Afranaph over the last 15 years.

Afranaph Project forms Board of Directors

The Afranaph Project will now be governed by a Board of Directors to whom the Project Director will report.  The role of the Board will be to decide new directions for Afranaph research, funding and work flow and the Board will also be responsible for choosing the Project Director. Bylaws for governance of Afranaph are currently being drafted. 

The new Board has been appointed by current Project Director, Ken Safir, but future changes to the Board, including its size and composition, will be decided by the Board itself. The inaugural Board members are Prof. Vicki Carstens, U. of Southern Illinois, Prof. Michael Diercks, Pomona College, Prof. Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota, Prof. Ruth Kramer, Georgetown University, Prof. Justine Sikuku, Moi University and Prof. Jenneke van der Wal, Leiden University. 

Next Afranaph Project Development Workshop (APDW3)

APDW3 is taking place at Georgetown University on December 13-14. No conference fee, everyone welcome.

See APDW3 page for more information