Dr. Angelika Jakobi
Phone: +49.221.470.4070
Dr. Angelika Jakobi, University of Cologne or
Dr. Angelika Jakobi, common address
Tasks at the institute
Retired but still active in research
Education
- 1971-1973 African Language Studies, Phonetics and Arabic, University of Marburg
- 1973-1977 African Language Studies, Phonetics and German Literature, University of Hamburg
- 1977 MA (Hamburg)
- Title of MA thesis: Swahili Tonbandkurse. Entwicklung von Bewertungskriterien für den Gebrauch in der Afrikanistik. [Establishing criteria to evaluate audio taped courses for teaching Swahili]
- 1986 PhD (Hamburg)
- Title of PhD thesis: A Fur Grammar. Phonology, Morphophonology and Morphology
Current Project
Research Focus
- Descriptive, documentary, and historical-comparative linguistics, language typology
- Nilo-Saharan languages, particularly Fur, Nubian, Beria (Zaghawa), Nyimang, Dinik, Amdang (Mimi)
Research Stays
- 1978/79 and 1981 on the Fur language of Darfur/Sudan
- 1986, 1987, 2000, and 2004 on the Kordofan Nubian languages in the Nuba Mountains/Sudan
- 1998/99, 2000, and 2002 on the Beria (Zaghawa) language in Chad
- 2002 on the Amdang (Mimi) language in Chad
- 2009 and 2010 on Uncunwee (Kordofan Nubian) in Sudan, http://www.uncuproject.com
Publications (Books)
- to appear. Kordofan Nubian. A synchronic and diachronic study.
- 2004. (with Joachim Crass) Grammaire du beria (langue saharienne) Avec un lexique français-beria (Nilo-Saharan, 18.). Cologne: Köppe.
- (with Tanja Kümmerle) 1993. The Nubian Languages. An Annotated Bibliography (African Linguistic Bibliographies, 5). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 1990. A Fur Grammar. Phonology, Morphophonology and Morphology (Nilo-Saharan, 5). Hamburg: Helmut Buske.
Publications (Articles)
- Forthcoming (with Gerrit J. Dimmendaal). Eastern Sudanic. To appear as chapter in Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), Oxford Handbook of African Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Forthcoming (with Ali Ibrahim and Gumma Ibrahim Gulfan). Verbal Number and Grammatical Relations in Tagle, in Nicolas Quint and Stefano Manfredi (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Nuba Mountain Languages Conference, Paris 2014.
- Forthcoming. Verbal number and the benefactive applicative in Karko (Kordofan Nubian), Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online.
- 2019d. The Study of African Languages and Linguistics in North-Eastern Africa, subchapter 5.7 'Sudan and South Sudan', in H. Ekkehard Wolff (ed.), A History of African Linguistics, pp. 108-114. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
- 2019c. Seetzen der Sprachensammler, in Detlef Haberland (ed.), Der Orientreisende Ulrich Jasper Seetzen und die Wissenschaften (Schriften der Landesbibliothek Oldenburg 69, Oldenburger Forschungen, N.F. 35), pp. 265-298. Oldenburg: Isensee.
- 2019b. (with Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Colleen Ahland, and Constance Kutsch Lojenga). Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as ‘Nilo-Saharan’, in Ekkehard H. Wolff (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, 326-381. Cambridge U.P.
- 2019a. Sudan and South-Sudan (sub-chapter in 'African Linguistics in North-Eastern and So-Called Anglophone Africa'), in Ekkehard H. Wolff (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, 79-81. Cambridge U.P.
- 2018 (with Ali Ibrahim). Labile verbs in Tagle (Kordofan Nubian), in Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Birgit Hellwig, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), Nuba Mountain Language Studies, New Insights, 99-127. Köln: Köppe.
- 2017. Verbal number and transitivity in Karko (Kordofan Nubian), in: Anne Storch & Jules Jacques Coly (eds.), Pluractional verbs and verbal plurals in African languages. STUF 70: 117–142.
- 2016 (with El-Shafie El-Guzuuli). Heterosemy of case markers and clause-linkers in Andaandi (Nile Nubian), in Studies in African Linguistics 45: 161-188.
- 2015 (with Ahmed Hamdan). Number Marking on Karko Nouns, in Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies, Vol. 2, Article 13.
- 2015 (with El-Shafie El-Guzuuli). Relative Clauses in Andaandi (Nile Nubian), in Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies, Vol. 2, Article 3.
- 2015 (with Ali Ibrahim). Attributive Modifiers in Taglennaa (Kordofan Nubian), in Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies, Vol. 2, Article 9.
- 2014 (with El-Shafie El-Guzuuli). Semantic Change and Heterosemy of Dongolawi ed, in: Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies, Vol. 1, Article 6.
- 2013 (with Ali Ibrahim). The relative clause in Taglennaa (Kordofan Nubian), in: Thilo C. Schadeberg and Roger M. Blench (eds.), Nuba Mountain Languages Studies, 355-370. Köln: Köppe.
- 2013. Nubian kinship terms, in: Thilo C. Schadeberg and Roger M. Blench (eds.), Nuba Mountain Languages Studies, 423-432. Köln: Köppe.
- 2013 (with El-Shafie El-Guzuuli). Perception verbs and their semantics in Dongolawi (Nile Nubian), in: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Anne Storch (eds.), Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture, pp. 193-215. Leiden: Brill.
- 2011 (with Jade Comfort). The verb 'to give' as a verbal extension in Uncunwee (Kordofan Nubian), in: R. Kramer, H. Tröbs, R. Kastenholz (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus (Afrikanistentage, 9), pp. 27-35. Cologne: Koeppe.
- 2011. Split-S in Beria, in: Doris Löhr, Eva Rothmaler, Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), Kanuri, Borno and Beyond. Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region, pp. 91-116. Cologne: Köppe.
- 2010. Morphosyntax und Semantik der Medium-Verben im Beria (Saharanisch), in: Armin R. Bachmann, Christliebe El Mogharbel, Katja Himstedt (eds.) Form und Struktur in der Sprache, Festschrift für Elmar Ternes, pp. 161-185. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- 2008. Nubian, in: Kees Verstegh (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, 3: 435-439. Leiden: Brill.
- 2007. Semantics and Syntax of Motion Verbs in Beria (Saharan), in: Angelika Mietzner & Yvonne Treis (eds.): Encoding Motion. Case Studies from Africa (Annual Publication in African Linguistics, 5), pp. 113-126. Cologne : Köppe.
- 2006. The loss of syllable-final Proto-Nubian consonants, in: Al-Amin Abu-Manga, Leoma Gilley, Anne Storch (eds.), Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture (Nilo-Saharan, 23), pp. 215-228. Cologne: Koeppe.
- 2006. Focus in an active/agentive system – the case of Beria (Saharan), in: Ines Fiedler & Anne Schwarz (eds.), Papers on Information Structure in African Languages (ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 46), pp. 129-142. Berlin: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft.
- 2005. Aspekt im Beria (Saharanisch), in: Gerald Heusing (ed.), Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zum 16. Afrikanistentag (Beiträge zur Afrikanistik, 15), pp. 85-115. Hamburg: LIT.
- 2002. Medium im Beria (Saharanisch), in: Theda Schumann, Mechthild Reh, Roland Kiessling, Ludwig Gerhardt (eds.), Aktuelle Forschungen zu afrikanischen Sprachen, pp. 157-170. Cologne: Köppe.
- 2000 (with Joachim Crass). Der Kube-Dialekt des Beria (Zaghawa) im Tschad – eine erste Skizze, in: Afrika und Übersee, 83: 3-46.
- 2000. Zur Rekonstruktion der proto-kordofannubischen Vokale, in: Rainer Voßen, Angelika Mietzner, Antje Meißner (eds.), „Mehr als nur Worte ...“ Afrikanistische Beiträge zum 65. Geburtstag von Franz Rottland, pp. 311-325. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 1995. Roland C. Stevenson (1915-1991). Sein Beitrag zur Sprachforschung im Sudan, in: Markus Wauschkuhn and Karl Wohlmuth (eds.), Die Sudanforschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ergebnisse der Bremer Tagung 1993, pp. 187-200. Münster and Hamburg: LIT.
- 1993. The state of research on Nubian languages and the contribution of linguists to the study of Nubian origins, in: Ismail H. Abdalla with David Sconyers (eds.), Perspectives and Challenges in the Development of Sudanese Studies, pp. 59-73. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press.
- 1992 (with Roland C. Stevenson and Franz Rottland). The verb in Nyimang and Dinik, in: Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere (Cologne), 32: 5-64.
- 1992. Ethnonyms and language names as indicators of group identities – a case study from the Nuba Mountains, in: Sudan: Environment and People. Second International Sudan Studies Conference, Conference Papers, 3, pp. 155-165. University of Durham, Sudan Archive.
- 1991 (with Franz Rottland). Loan word evidence from the Nuba Mountains: Kordofan Nubian and the Nyimang Group, in: Daniela Mendel and Ulrike Claudi (eds.), Ägypten im afro-orientalischen Kontext. Aufsätze zur Archäologie, Geschichte und Sprache eines unbegrenzten Raumes. Gedenkschrift Peter Behrens (Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere), pp. 249-269. Cologne: University of Cologne, Institut für Afrikanistik.
- 1990 (with Ali Obeid Braima). Sudan Arabic loanwords in Kadaru, a Kordofan Nubian dialect, in: Bernhard Streck (ed.), Tradition, Migration, Notstand – Themen heutiger Sudanethnographie, pp. 55-67. Göttingen: Edition Re.
- 1975 (with Herrmann Jungraithmayr). Amasi, Ambele und Asumbo – Klassensprachen aus dem nördlichen Westkamerun (‘Mamfe’-Bantu), in: Africana Marburgensia, 8 (1): 56-66, 8 (2): 30-42.