Ellen Contini-Morava

Ellen Contini-Morava
Ellen Contini-Morava (left) with her husband Jack Morava near the Burgess Shale, 1971
Education	Columbia University 1983 (PhD)
Occupation	Anthropological linguist
Known for	specialization in Bantu languages and Swahili
Honours	professor emerita

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 ^[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. "Complete Bibliography". Columbia School Linguistic Society. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
2. "Ellen Contini-Morava, Professor Emerita", Faculty profiles, University of Virginia Department of Anthropology, retrieved 2020-09-20
3. 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
   • Dahl, Östen (June 1990), Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 13 (1): 73–75, doi:10.1017/s0332586500002122, S2CID   145768124
   • 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
   • King, Brian (June 1991), Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 36 (2): 196–197, doi:10.1017/s0008413100014390, S2CID   148735177
   • Rueda Rueda, Mercedes (November 2016), Estudios Humanísticos. Filología (13), University of Leon: 218, doi: 10.18002/ehf.v0i13.4514 , hdl: 10612/9473
   • Schadeberg, Thilo C. (September 1990), Language, 66 (3): 584–590, doi:10.2307/414620, JSTOR   414620
   • Smetánková, Irena (January 1991), "Review", Archiv Orientální, 59: 324–326, ProQuest   1304095424
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. 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