Richter genannt Kemmermann, Doris

Date of birth 02.04.1974

  • Phone at the institut:e 0221-470-6985
  • E-Mail: drichte2 @ uni-koeln.de (Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann)

Tasks at the institute

Research assistant in the project “A multi-media documentation of two endangered languages of Cameroon: Bubia and Isubu“ (DoBeS)

Education

  • 10/2000 – 1/2007 Master (Cologne)
       African languages and linguistics, English studies and arthistory
       Title of MA-thesis: “Die Nominalmorphologie des Kenyang mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Klassen“
  • 5/2007 – 5/2012 PhD (Cologne)
       Title of PhD-thesis: „A grammar of Mbembe”

Research interests

  • Benue-Congo languages
  • language documentation
  • language description
  • sociolinguistics
  • anthropological linguistics
  • discourse analysis

Fieldwork

  • 2007, 2008 and 2010 in North-West Cameroon on the Mbembe language (Central-Jukunoid, Benue-Congo)
  • 2010/2011 and 2012 in South-West Cameroon on the languages Isubu and Wovia (Bantu A, Benue-Congo)

Publications

  • 2008. “Demonstrative im Mbembe”. In: Thanassoula, Marilena et al. (eds.). Beiträge zur 2. Kölner Afrikawissenschaftlichen Nachwuchstagung (Kant II).
  • 2012. “Directional verbs in Mbembe”. In: Claudi, Ulrike & Angelika Mietzner (eds.). Directionality in Grammar and Discourse: Case Studies from Africa. Köln: Köppe. pp. 219-232.
  • to appear. “Whomever it concerns – Notions of control, initiation and affectedness in expressions of body-centred activities in Mbembe”. In: Brenzinger, Matthias & Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (eds.). Proceedings of the International Workshop: “The Body in Language: Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar and Culture”.
  • in prep. A grammar of Mbembe. PhD-thesis, University of Cologne