Elisabeth Clages
E-Mail: e.clages(at)uni-koeln(dot)de
Task in the institute
- PhD Candidate
PhD Project
Participant coding strategies in the Datooga language (working title)
Conference presentations
- Investigating valency in Datooga (Southern Nilotic) and in/through Swahili (Bantu). Poster presented at the YARN (Young Africanists Research Network). 19.–20.03.2026, Göttingen.
- Speaking about the unspoken: An honest discussion of challenges for first-time fieldworkers. Talk given at the STaPs (23th Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende), with Rafael Soto Setzke. 13.–14.03.2026, Osnabrück.
- Argument realization and discourse prominence in three East African languages. Poster presented at the 7th CRC Networking Workshop, with Alice Mitchell, Birgit Hellwig, Mandy Lorenzen, Milo Reinmöller, and Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 26.–27.11.2025, Bielefeld.
- The impersonal construction in Datooga. Talk given at the 26thAfrikanist*innentag. 18.–20.06.2025, Vienna.
Research interests
- Language Documentation
- Language Typology
- Morphosyntactic alignment
- Argument structure
- Valency patterns
- Grammatical relations
Education and academic career
Education
- Since 04/2025: PhD Candidate in CRC 1252, Project B02 (“Beyond split case marking: Participant coding strategies in East African languages”)
- 2024: Master of Arts (University of Cologne, Linguistics and Phonetics/German Language and Literature). Thesis: The impersonal construction in Datooga
- 2020: Bachelor of Arts (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, German Studies/Linguistics)
Academic Career
- 2026: Research stay in Babati, Haydom, and Katesh, Tanzania
- 2025: Research stay in Arusha, Tanzania
- 2022–2024: Student Assistant in CRC 1252, Project B02
- 2023: Research stay in Haydom, Tanzania
- 2021–2022: Student Assistant at the Department of German Language and Literature I, Chair of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger
- 2018–2019 Student Assistant at the Department of Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf