Ellen_Contini-Morava

Ellen Contini-Morava

Ellen Contini-Morava

Linguistic anthropologist

Ellen Contini-Morava is an anthropological linguist, interested in the meanings of linguistic forms, discourse analysis, functional linguistics and (noun) classification; in particular, in the relationship between lexicon and grammar. She specializes in Bantu languages in general, and Swahili in particular.

Ellen Contini-Morava (left) with her husband Jack Morava near the Burgess Shale, 1971

Education and career

Contini-Morava received her PhD from Columbia University in 1983[1] under William Diver and Erica Garcia. She is a professor emerita at the University of Virginia.[2]

Books

Contini-Morava is the author of the book Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization: The Case of Negation and Tense-Aspect with Special Reference to Swahili (Mouton de Gruyter, 1989).[3]

Her edited volumes include Between Grammar and Lexicon (edited with Yishai Tobin, John Benjamins, 2000)[4] and Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis (edited with Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller, John Benjamins, 2004).[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Complete Bibliography". Columbia School Linguistic Society. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  2. [2]
    "Ellen Contini-Morava, Professor Emerita", Faculty profiles, University of Virginia Department of Anthropology, retrieved 2020-09-20
  3. [3]
    Reviews of Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization:
  4. [4]
    Kaye, Alan S. (March 2002), "Review of Between Grammar and Lexicon", Language, 78 (1): 210–211, doi:10.1353/lan.2002.0030, JSTOR 3086696, S2CID 143535183
  5. [5]
    Becker, Sandra Cristina (December 2007), "Review of Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis", Language, 83 (4): 912–913, doi:10.1353/lan.2008.0011, JSTOR 40070986, S2CID 143748470


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