Thilo C. Schadeberg

Thilo C. Schadeberg
Born1942
Dresden, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Marburg (Ph.D., 1971)
Academic work
InstitutionsLeiden University
Main interestsBantu languages and Kordofanian languages

Thilo Christian Schadeberg (born 1942 in Dresden, Germany) is an Emeritus Professor of Bantu Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics of Leiden University.[1]

Education and research

Schadeberg obtained his PhD at the University of Marburg in 1971 and was a Professor of African Languages and Cultures at Leiden since 1986. His research focuses on Bantu languages of East Africa and Angola, and Kordofanian languages of Sudan.

Editor

Schadeberg was the sole editor of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (JALL)[2] from 1983[3] to 1989.[4] Previously, he had been associate editor of JALL since its foundation by Paul Newman in 1979.[5]

Honors and awards

Schadeberg is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 1989.[6] He was a visiting professor at the University of Bayreuth from 2004-2007.[7]

Selected publications

Schadeberg published many scholarly articles and book chapters, including:[8][9]

  • Zur Lautstruktur des Kinga (Tanzania), Thesis, E. Symon, Marburg, 1971. In German.
  • The classification of the Kadugli language group, in Nilo-Saharan, in Lionel Bender and Thilo C. Schadeberg, Eds., Nilo-Saharan Proceedings. Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 8–10, 1980, 291-305.[10]
  • Nasalization in Umbundu, Journal of African languages and linguistics 4 (1982) 109-132.[11]
  • Les suffixes verbaux séparatifs en bantou, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika (SUGIA) 4 (1982) 55-66. In French.[12]
  • Tone cases in Umbundu, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, 1986, 425-447.[13]
  • Kordofanian, The Niger-Congo languages 1989, 66-80.[14]
  • with Ridder Samsom, Kiinimacho cha mahali: Kiambishi tamati cha mahali-ni, Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere (AAP) 37 (1994) 127-138. In Kiswahili.[15]
  • Spirantization and the 7-to-5 Vowel Merger in Bantu, Belgian Journal of Linguistics 9 (1994) 73 - 84.[16]
  • Object diagnostics in Bantu, in Emenanjo N. and Ndimele O.-m., Eds., Issues in African languages and linguistics. Essays in honour of Kay Williamson, 173 - 180, 1995.[17]
  • Progress in Bantu lexical reconstruction, Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 23 (2002) 183-195.[18]
  • Chapter 5. Derivation, in Nurse, D. and Philippson, G., Eds., The Bantu Languages, Routledge Language Family Series, Routledge, London 2003. ISBN 9780700711345.[19]

See also

Further reading

  • "Kordofanian". scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden University. 1989. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

References

  1. ^ "Thilo Christian Schadeberg". hoogleraren.universiteitleiden.nl (in Dutch). Leiden University. 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. Edited by: Felix K. Ameka, Azeb Amha". degruyter.com. Walter De Gruyter GmbH. 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Titelei Volume 5, Number 2, October 1983". degruyter.com. Walter De Gruyter GmbH. October 13, 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Titelei Volume 11, Number l, April 1989". degruyter.com. Walter De Gruyter GmbH. October 13, 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  5. ^ Newman, Paul (2010). "The making of JALL: Its beginnings and intellectual foundations". scholarworks.iu.edu. Indiana University. Original article: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 31(1): 3-11. Retrieved 8 December 2022. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (JALL) was founded in 1979 at the University of Leiden, with Paul Newman as Editor and Thilo Schadeberg as Associate Editor.
  6. ^ "Prof. dr. Thilo Schadeberg. Geesteswetenschappen. Taal- en letterkunde overige taalgroepen". knaw.nl (in Dutch). KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  7. ^ Akinwumi, Olutosin (2004). "Team. Thilo C. Schadeberg". afrikanistik.uni-bayreuth.de. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Schadeberg, Thilo C." Worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  9. ^ "Articles". scholar.google.com. Google. 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2022. Search for Thilo Schadeberg.
  10. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1981). "Kordofanian". scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden University. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  11. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1982). "Nasalization in Umbundu". scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden University. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  12. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1982). "Les suffixes verbaux séparatifs en bantou". scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden University. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  13. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1986). "Tone cases in Umbundu". scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden University. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  14. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1989). "Kordofanian". scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden University. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  15. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C.; Samson, Ridder (1994). "Kiinimacho cha mahali: Kiambishi tamati cha mahali-ni". scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden University. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  16. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1994). "John Benjamins e-Platform". jbe-platform.com. John Benjamins. Retrieved 24 November 2022. Many Bantu languages have the balanced seven-vowel system i I ε a ɔ υ u. It is the system that one would, on internal evidence, reconstruct for proto-Bantu. Many other Bantu languages have a reduced five-vowel system i εaɔυu.
  17. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1995). "Object diagnostics in Bantu". scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl. Leiden University. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  18. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (2002). "Progress in Bantu lexical reconstruction". degruyter.com. De Gruyter. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  19. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (2003). "Chapter 5. Derivation, in Nurse, D. and Philippson, G., Eds., The Bantu Languages, Routledge Language Family Series". routledgehandbooks.com. Routledge, London. Retrieved 24 November 2022.