l'Afrique

Le Japon

Ph.D. candidate

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

kari@aa.tufs.ac.jp

G 201 Soshigaya International Students House
4-24-1 Kamisoshigaya
Setagaya-ku
Tokyo 157-0065
Japan

phone: +81-3-5315-5469

Nigeria

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).

(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.

linguistics ; morphology ; syntax ; clitization.