Bastian Persohn, M.A.

born June 19th, 1986 in Hamm (Westf.)

  • Office hours: by arrangement

Tasks at the institute

PhD student (scholarship holder at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne), project: "The Verb in ikiNyakyusa"

Education

  • Oct. 2006 – Sept. 2010 B.A. Romance philology and media studies in Paderborn and Zaragoza
  • Oct. 2010 – Aug. 2012 M.A. Linguistics in Münster

Research interests

Language description and analysis, anthropological linguistics, TAM systems

Grants

Aug. 2011 – Aug. 2012, Rectorate of the WWU Münster: Full grant for collegiate research project on "Tempus-, Aspekt und Moduskategorien im Nyakyusa"

Talks given

  • May 2012: "TAM-Kategorien im Nyakyusa: das Suffix -ile". Deutscher Afrikanistentag, Universität zu Köln
  • August 2012: "TAM in Nyakyusa: the case of -ile". CALL (Conference on African Languages and Linguistics), Universiteit Leiden

Teaching

  • Summer semester 2013: "Einführung in das Studium der Bantusprachen" (Introduction to Bantu languages) at WWU Münster