Ethelbert E. Kari

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Japan
Title	Ph.D. candidate
Affiliation	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Email	kari@aa.tufs.ac.jp
Mailing Address	G 201 Soshigaya International Students House 4-24-1 Kamisoshigaya Setagaya-ku Tokyo 157-0065 Japan
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: +81-3-5315-5469
Countries of Specialization	Nigeria
Research Interests	I am currently pursuing a Ph.D in linguistics at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, in Japan. Before now, I was teaching linguistics at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. My research interests include morphology and syntax (especially Cliticization).
Publications	(a) Clitics in Degema. Nigerian Language Studies No. 3. (1995). (b) Extensional suffixes in Degema. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere No. 44. (1995). (c) Degema. Languages of the World/Materials 180. Müchen-Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 1997. (d) Final close vowels in a sequence of Vowels in Degema: a re-analysis. Afrika und Ubersee Band 81 (1998). (e) With Sean Fulop and Peter Ladefoged. An acoustic study of the tongue root contrasts in Degema vowels. Phonetic 55 (1998). (f) Ogbronuagum (The Bukuma Language). Languages of the World/Materials 329. München-Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 2000.
Keywords	linguistics ; morphology ; syntax ; clitization.