Dr. Gertrud Schneider-Blum
Telefonnummer im Institut: 0221/470-2476
Aufgaben im Institut
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in Forschung und Lehre
Ausbildung
- 10/1991-07/1999 Magisterstudium Afrikanistik, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaften, Englisch (Universität zu Köln)
- 10/2002-06/2006 Promotionsstudium Afrikanistik (Universität zu Köln)
Aktuelles Projekt
- Birgit Hellwig, Alice Mitchell, Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Mandy Lorenzen, Elisabeth Clages und Milo Reinmöller: Split case marking and constituent order variation in East Africa, Teilprojekt des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1252 Prominence in Language an der Universität zu Köln (DFG-Förderung)
Abgeschlossene Projekte
- 2006-2011: Susan Alamin, Abeer Bashir, Meike Meerpohl, Abdelrahim Mugaddam, Gertrud Schneider-Blum. A multi-media documentation of Tima (Volkswagen-Stiftung)
- 2011-2013: Birgit Hellwig, Gertrud Schneider-Blum. Documenting Tabaq: a Hill Nubian language of the Sudan, in its sociolinguistic context (The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, London)
- 2017-2020: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Birgit Hellwig, Gertrud Schneider-Blum und Tatjana Schnellinger: Split ergativity in Tima, Teilprojekt des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1252 Prominence in Language an der Universität zu Köln (DFG-Förderung)
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Sprachbeschreibungen und -analysen
- Lexikographie
- Wortstellungsphänomene
Forschungsaufenthalte
- Tansania (1995)
- Äthiopien (2002-2005)
- Sudan (2007-2013, 2017-2023)
Publikationen
Schneider-Blum, Gertrud
- 2023. The impact of attentional centering on ergative marking in Tima. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 2023; 76(1): pp. 87-112. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- 2022. On noncausal/causal alternations in Tima (Nuba Mountains, Sudan). In Linguistique et Langues Africaines 2022; 8(2).
- 2018. Constituent focus and selective marking in Tima. In Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Birgit Hellwig and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), Nuba Mountain Language Studies – New Insights, pp. 255-279. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 2017. Once or more often? – On pluractionality marking in Tima. In Jules J. Coly & Anne Storch (eds.), Verbal plurals and Pluractionals, STUF 2017; 70 (1), 163-194. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- 2013. Personal Pronouns in Tima. In T.C. Schadeberg and R.M. Blench (eds.), Nuba Mountain Language Studies, pp. 281-296. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- (ed.). 2013. Nʌyʌyirʌk t̪amaa dumurik. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 2013. A Tima-English Dictionary. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. - zongList Online Version
- 2012. Don’t waste words – perspectives on the Tima lexicon. In Matthias Brenzinger and Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009, pp. 529-536. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 2011. Noun phrase – compound – noun: Some problems with compounds in Tima. In R. Kramer, H. Tröbs and R. Kastenholz (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus, pp. 239-256. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 2009. Máak’ut(i) T’awá Shuultáa – Proverbs Finish the Problems. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 2009. Alaaba. In: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (ed.) Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages, pp. 55-96. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- 2007. A Grammar of Alaaba. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 2007. The “copula” in Alaaba. In Joachim Crass and Ronny Meyer (eds.), Deictics, Copula and focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area, pp. 53-70. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 2006. Case in Alaaba (Highland East Cushitic). In Siegbert Uhlig (ed.), Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Hamburg July 20-25, 2003), pp. 851-860. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz.
- 2004. Verbal Extensions in Alaaba (Highland East Cushitic, Ethiopia). Annual Publications of African Linguistics (APAL) 2 (2004): 47-66.
Mehrautorenschaft
- Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. and Gertrud Schneider-Blum. In preparation. A Grammar of Tima (Sudan).
- Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. and Gertrud Schneider-Blum. To appear. The lexicography of endangered languages in Africa. In Patrick Hanks and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (eds.), International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography. Heidelberg: Springer.
- Tabain, Marija, Jaye Padgett, Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Adele Gregory & Richard Beare. Accepted. An acoustic study of ATR in Tima vowels: vowel quality, voice quality, and duration. Phonology.
- Alamin, Suzan & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2024. A cautious approach to spatial orientation in Tima. In Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell & Nico Nassenstein (eds.), Anthropological Linguistics – Perspectives from Africa, 49-82. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Veit, Nataliya & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2024. Kin-relational expressions of the Tima (Nuba Mountains, Sudan). In Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell & Nico Nassenstein (eds.), Anthropological Linguistics – Perspectives from Africa, 223-252. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Tabain, Marija & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2023. Illustration of the IPA: Tima. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-25. doi:10.1017/S0025100323000257.
- Schneider-Blum, Gertrud, Sonja Riesberg, Birgit Hellwig & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. On resolving prominence conflicts – exceptional case marking in Tima and Yali. In Gianollo, Chiara, Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Sofiana I. Lindemann (eds.), Paths through meaning and form, pp. 211-215. Cologne: USB Monographs.
- Becker, Laura & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2020. Morphological marking of contrast in Tima. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2020; 5(1): 125: pp. 1-35.
- Hashim, Mona, Suzan Alamin & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2020. Arabic borrowings in Tima. In Faits de Langues/Journal of Language Diversity 2020; 51(1): pp. 175-196.
- Schneider-Blum, Gertrud & Birgit Hellwig. 2020. Property concepts in Tabaq: More than one road can lead to Rome. In Faits de Langues/Journal of Language Diversity 2020: pp. 63-78.
- Casaretto, Antje, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Birgit Hellwig, Uta Reinöhl & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2020. Roots of ergativity in Africa (and beyond). Studies in African Linguistics 49(1), 108-137.
- Schneider-Blum, Gertrud and Birgit Hellwig. 2018. Reference tracking in Tima and its interplay with split ergative marking. Studies in Language 42:4, 970-993.
- Dimmendaal, Gerrit J., and Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2018. Transitivity in Tima. In Rose-Juliet Anyanwu (ed.), Transitivity in African Languages, pp. 125-146. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- Schneider-Blum, Gertrud, Birgit Hellwig and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.). 2018. Nuba Mountain Language Studies – New Insights. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- Hellwig, Birgit and Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2014. Tabaq: In a state of flux. In Dotawo – A Journal of Nubian Studies, 2014 #1, pp. 63-81
- Schneider-Blum, Gertrud, and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. 2013. Excite your senses: Glances into the field of perception and cognition in Tima. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Anne Storch (eds.), Perception and Cognition, pp. 217-249. Leiden: Brill.
- Alamin, Suzan, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2012. Finding your way in Tima. In Angelika Mietzner and Ulrike Claudi (eds.), Directionality in Grammar and Discourse: Case Studies from Africa, pp. 9-33. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.