Ehemalige Forschungsprojekte
1. Glavda in Rural and Urban contexts
The project aims to document the language by providing a corpus of around 100,000 words, all texts transcribed and translated and provided partially with interlinear glosses. Additionally, special attention will be given to providing texts from Maiduguri, the largest city in the area of Ngoshe, which has a large population of Glavda origin, particularly in the area of Lain Ngoshe, behind the University of Maiduguri teaching hospital on Bama Road. ...more
2.Idiomaticity
This study brings together elements of general linguistics, corpus linguistic and Arabic linguistics in order to investigate central issues of language change. The ultimate goal of the project is to determine the extent to which idiomatic structures are maintained across varieties separated diachronically and geographically. ...more