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Spring 2026

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Archiving language documentation data: Guébie (Kru, Côte d'Ivoire)

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims to format translated and transcribed linguistic interviews collected during fieldwork in Côte d'Ivoire, with the goal of archiving the interviews and their transcriptions and translations for use by other researchers as well as community members. The language of study for this project is Guébie, an endangered Kru...

 Social Sciences

Stem internal morphology and its meanings: A typological survey

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Some morphology is affixal, appearing sequentially before or after roots to add derivational or inflectional meanings. In other cases, morphology is stem-internal: it affects the identity of vowels or consonants in the base, changes the tone or stress of the base, or even removes segmental content from the base...

 Social Sciences

LaTeX wizard: reformatting and editing linguistic descriptions in LaTeX

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project involves reformatting and editing a descriptive grammar of the endangered Guébie (Kru) language of Côte d'Ivoire, which has been documented, described, and analyzed by Professor Hannah Sande and her students over the past 12 years. Professor Sande is finishing up a grammar that presents the first description of...

 Social Sciences

Lobi vowel shifts in plural contexts

Hannah Sande - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims to document, describe, analyze, write up, and possibly present and publish about the morphophonology of plural marking in Lobi, a Gur language spoken in West Africa. Plural morphology in Lobi is likely historically related to a noun class system, though synchronically there are no longer noun-class...

 Social Sciences

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