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.
Education and career
Contini-Morava received her PhD from Columbia University in 1983 under William Diver and Erica Garcia. She is a professor emerita at the University of Virginia.
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).
Her edited volumes include Between Grammar and Lexicon (edited with Yishai Tobin, John Benjamins, 2000) and Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis (edited with Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller, John Benjamins, 2004).
References
- "Complete Bibliography". Columbia School Linguistic Society. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
- "Ellen Contini-Morava, Professor Emerita", Faculty profiles, University of Virginia Department of Anthropology, retrieved 2020-09-20
- Reviews of Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization:
- Blommaert, Jan (January 1993), Journal of Pragmatics, 19 (1): 88–94, doi:10.1016/0378-2166(93)90073-x, hdl:1854/LU-386042
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dahl, Östen (June 1990), Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 13 (1): 73–75, doi:10.1017/s0332586500002122, S2CID 145768124
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Elderkin, Edward D. (1992), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 55 (2): 387–390, doi:10.1017/S0041977X00005292, JSTOR 619691, S2CID 161588525
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - King, Brian (June 1991), Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 36 (2): 196–197, doi:10.1017/s0008413100014390, S2CID 148735177
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Rueda Rueda, Mercedes (November 2016), Estudios Humanísticos. Filología (13), University of Leon: 218, doi:10.18002/ehf.v0i13.4514, hdl:10612/9473
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Schadeberg, Thilo C. (September 1990), Language, 66 (3): 584–590, doi:10.2307/414620, JSTOR 414620
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Smetánková, Irena (January 1991), "Review", Archiv Orientální, 59: 324–326, ProQuest 1304095424
- Blommaert, Jan (January 1993), Journal of Pragmatics, 19 (1): 88–94, doi:10.1016/0378-2166(93)90073-x, hdl:1854/LU-386042
- 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
- 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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