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Aron ZAHRAN
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Doctorant INALCO – LLACAN,
Sous la direction de Rozenn Guérois et Mark Van de Velde (CNRS-LLACAN),
Intitulé de la thèse : Classifying Chikunda: Retentions and innovations in the morphology and syntax of Zambezi Valley Bantu languages
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Thèmes de recherche
- Description et documentation de langues
- Linguistique historique
- Variation morphosyntaxique
- Langues Bantoues
- Linguistique de terrain
- Linguistique comparative et typologique
- Contact de langues
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Cursus Universitaire
- 2021-2023: Master of Arts in African Languages. University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2019-2021: Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics. University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Participations à des projets de recherche
- June 2022- September 2023: Research assistant. University of Gothenburg. Administrative work, data analysis, and linguistic annotation on the research project “How do words get in order? The role of speaker-hearer interaction in languages of southern Africa”
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Recherche sur le terrain
- February-April 2023, Tanzania: Data collection on three East Ruvu Bantu languages: Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo
- February-April 2021, Sweden: Urban Fieldwork – Data collection on Swahili with Tanzanian diaspora in Gothenburg.
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Publications
- Bloom-Ström, E-M. Slater, O. Zahran, Berdicevskis, A. and Schumacher, A. (2023) Preparing a Corpus of Spoken Xhosa. In Proceedings of the 2023 CLASP Conference on Learning with Small Data (LSD), 62–67. Gothenburg, Sweden: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. https://aclanthology.org/2023.clasp-1.7.
- Zahran, A. and Bloom-Ström, E-M. (2022) Against Expectations – the Rise of Adverbs in Swahili Phasal Polarity. Studies in African Linguistics 51, no. 2 (2022): 294–322. https://doi.org/10.32473/sal.51.2.129687.
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Thèses et manuscrits
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Communications
- 04/09/2023: Keynote speaker at Rhodes University Annual Postgraduate Student Conference, Makhanda, South Africa. “Nothing is in vain”: Semantic expansion and cyclical change in Tanzanian Bantu.
- 28/08/2023: Opening talk at 52nd Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), Leiden University, The Netherlands. The multiple functions of the disjoint morpheme in Ndengeleko focus, progressiveness and epistemicity. (Presented with Eva-Marie Bloom Ström).
- 28/08/2023: 52nd Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), Leiden University, The Netherlands. “Nothing is in vain”: Non-standard negation in Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo.
- 15/08/2023: 3rd Language Association of Eastern Africa Conference (LAEA). Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. The Reflexive-Reciprocal prefix in East Bantu.
- 12/06/2023: Swedish Linguistics meetings 2023 (SLING), University of Lund, Sweden. “Nothing is in vain”: Non-standard negation in three Tanzanian Bantu languages.
- 23/05/2023: Linguistics Research Seminars, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Predication focus, progressiveness and evidentiality in a single Ndengeleko morpheme. (Presented with Eva-Marie Bloom Ström).
- 01/12/2022: 10th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. Conjoint/Disjoint in Ndengeleko.
- 29/08/2022: 51st Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics (CALL): Contact in East Africa Workshop. Leiden University, The Netherlands. Reflexive and Reciprocal polysemy in East Bantu.
- 07/06/2022: 9th International Conference on Bantu Languages (BANTU9), Blantyre, Malawi. ‘Phasal Polarity in Swahili’ (Presented with Eva-Marie Bloom Ström).
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