Dr. Angelika Jakobi

  • Phone: +49.221.470.6985
  • E-mail:
    angelika.jakobi@uni-koeln.de (Dr. Angelika Jakobi, University of Cologne) or
    jakobi_a@web.de (Dr. Angelika Jakobi, common address)

Tasks at the Institute

Research and teaching; scholary support of the institute's library; Erasmus coordinator

Education

  • 1971-1973 African Language Studies, Phonetics and Arabic, University of Marburg
  • 1973-1977 African Language Studies, Phonetics and German Literature, University of Hamburg
     
  • 1977 MA (Hamburg)
  • Title of MA thesis: Swahili Tonbandkurse. Entwicklung von Bewertungskriterien für den Gebrauch in der Afrikanistik. [Establishing criteria to evaluate audio taped courses for teaching Swahili].
     
  • 1986 PhD (Hamburg)
  • Title of PhD thesis: A Fur Grammar. Phonology, Morphophonology and Morphology.

Fieldwork

  • 1978/79 and 1981 on the Fur language of Darfur/Sudan
  • 1986, 1987, 2000, and 2004 on the Kordofan Nubian languages in the Nuba Mountains/Sudan
  • 1998/99, 2000, and 2002 on the Beria (Zaghawa) language in Chad
  • 2002 on the Amdang (Mimi) language in Chad
  • 2009 and 2010 on Uncunwee (Kordofan Nubian) in Sudan, http://www.uncuproject.com

Research Interests

  • Descriptive, documentary, and historical-comparative linguistics, language typology
  • Nilo-Saharan languages, particularly Fur, Nubian, Beria (Zaghawa), Nyimang, Dinik, Amdang (Mimi)

Books

  • to appear. Kordofan Nubian. A synchronic and diachronic study.
  • 2004. (with Joachim Crass) Grammaire du beria (langue saharienne) Avec un lexique français-beria (Nilo-Saharan, 18.). Cologne: Köppe.
  • (with Tanja Kümmerle) 1993. The Nubian Languages. An Annotated Bibliography (African Linguistic Bibliographies, 5). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
  • 1990. A Fur Grammar. Phonology, Morphophonology and Morphology (Nilo-Saharan, 5). Hamburg: Helmut Buske.

Articles

  • to appear. Differential Object Marking in Uncunwee (Kordofan Nubian), in: Proceedings of ‘New Approaches to Nubian Language and History’, Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne, August 2009.
  • to appear. The Old Nubian script, in: Proceedings of ‘5000 Jahre Schrift in Afrika’, Cologne, November 2008.
  • to appear (with Robert Williams). Number Marking in two Ghulfan varieties, in: Proceedings of the 10th Nilo-Saharan Colloquium, Paris, August 2007.
  • to appear (with Maarten Kossmann). Alleged Berber loan words in Nubian, in: Rainer Voßen (ed.), Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika.
  • in print (with Ali Ibrahim). The relative clause in Taglennaa (Kordofan Nubian), in: Roger Blench and Thilo C. Schadeberg (eds.), Proceedings of ‘Nuba Mountain Languages Conference’, University of Leiden, September 2011.
  • in print. Nubian kinship terms, in: Roger Blench and Thilo C. Schadeberg (eds.), Proceedings of the Nuba Mountain Languages Conference, Leiden, Sept. 2011.
  • 2013 (with El-Shafie El-Guzuuli). Perception verbs and their semantics in Dongolawi (Nile Nubian), in: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Anne Storch (eds.), Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture, pp. 193-215. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2011 (with Jade Comfort). The verb 'to give' as a verbal extension in Uncunwee (Kordofan Nubian), in: R. Kramer, H. Tröbs, R. Kastenholz (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus (Afrikanistentage, 9), pp. 27-35. Cologne: Koeppe.
  • 2011. Split-S in Beria, in: Doris Löhr, Eva Rothmaler, Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), Kanuri, Borno and Beyond. Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region, pp. 91-116. Cologne: Köppe.
  • 2010. Morphosyntax und Semantik der Medium-Verben im Beria (Saharanisch), in: Armin R. Bachmann, Christliebe El Mogharbel, Katja Himstedt (eds.) Form und Struktur in der Sprache, Festschrift für Elmar Ternes, pp. 161-185. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
  • 2007. Semantics and Syntax of Motion Verbs in Beria (Saharan), in: Angelika Mietzner & Yvonne Treis (eds.): Encoding Motion. Case Studies from Africa (Annual Publication in African Linguistics, 5), pp. 113-126. Cologne : Köppe.
  • 2006. The loss of syllable-final Proto-Nubian consonants, in: Al-Amin Abu-Manga, Leoma Gilley, Anne Storch (eds.), Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture (Nilo-Saharan, 23), pp. 215-228. Cologne: Koeppe.
  • 2006. Nubian, in: Kees Verstegh (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, 3: 435-439. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2006. Focus in an active/agentive system – the case of Beria (Saharan), in: Ines Fiedler & Anne Schwarz (eds.), Papers on Information Structure in African Languages (ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 46), pp. 129-142. Berlin: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft.
  • 2005. Aspekt im Beria (Saharanisch), in: Gerald Heusing (ed.), Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zum 16. Afrikanistentag (Beiträge zur Afrikanistik, 15), pp. 85-115. Hamburg: LIT.
  • 2002. Medium im Beria (Saharanisch), in: Theda Schumann, Mechthild Reh, Roland Kiessling, Ludwig Gerhardt (eds.), Aktuelle Forschungen zu afrikanischen Sprachen, pp. 157-170. Cologne: Köppe.
  • 2000 (with Joachim Crass). Der Kube-Dialekt des Beria (Zaghawa) im Tschad – eine erste Skizze, in: Afrika und Übersee, 83: 3-46.
  • 2000. Zur Rekonstruktion der proto-kordofannubischen Vokale, in: Rainer Voßen, Angelika Mietzner, Antje Meißner (eds.), „Mehr als nur Worte ...“ Afrikanistische Beiträge zum 65. Geburtstag von Franz Rottland, pp. 311-325. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
  • 1995. Roland C. Stevenson (1915-1991). Sein Beitrag zur Sprachforschung im Sudan, in: Markus Wauschkuhn and Karl Wohlmuth (eds.), Die Sudanforschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ergebnisse der Bremer Tagung 1993, pp. 187-200. Münster and Hamburg: LIT.
  • 1993. The state of research on Nubian languages and the contribution of linguists to the study of Nubian origins, in: Ismail H. Abdalla with David Sconyers (eds.), Perspectives and Challenges in the Development of Sudanese Studies, pp. 59-73. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press.
  • 1992 (with Roland C. Stevenson and Franz Rottland). The verb in Nyimang and Dinik, in: Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere (Cologne), 32: 5-64.
  • 1992. Ethnonyms and language names as indicators of group identities – a case study from the Nuba Mountains, in: Sudan: Environment and People. Second International Sudan Studies Conference, Conference Papers, 3, pp. 155-165. University of Durham, Sudan Archive.
  • 1991 (with Franz Rottland). Loan word evidence from the Nuba Mountains: Kordofan Nubian and the Nyimang Group, in: Daniela Mendel and Ulrike Claudi (eds.), Ägypten im afro-orientalischen Kontext. Aufsätze zur Archäologie, Geschichte und Sprache eines unbegrenzten Raumes. Gedenkschrift Peter Behrens (Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere), pp. 249-269. Cologne: University of Cologne, Institut für Afrikanistik.
  • 1990 (with Ali Obeid Braima). Sudan Arabic loanwords in Kadaru, a Kordofan Nubian dialect, in: Bernhard Streck (ed.), Tradition, Migration, Notstand – Themen heutiger Sudanethnographie, pp. 55-67. Göttingen: Edition Re.
  • 1975 (with Herrmann Jungraithmayr). Amasi, Ambele und Asumbo – Klassensprachen aus dem nördlichen Westkamerun (‘Mamfe’-Bantu), in: Africana Marburgensia, 8 (1): 56-66, 8 (2): 30-42.