Christa Kilian-Hatz

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Christa Kilian-Hatz (born September 23, 1963 in Munich ) is a German Africanist.

Life

From 1983 to 1985 she trained as an insurance saleswoman at Münchener Rückversicherungs -AG München . From 1986 to 1987 she was involved in development aid in the Baaka - Pygmies in Cameroon (literacy in French and in the local Baka language and documentation and publication of myths of the Pygmies). At the University of Cologne , Institute for African Studies, she completed an academic training (1987–1992 Master’s degree in African Studies , General Linguistics and Ethnology (distinction 'with distinction' 1.3), 1993–1997 research assistant in various research projects, PhD in 1995 (Dr . phil .; 'opus eximium'; 'magna cum laude'), 1997–1999 habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation , 1999–2005 member of an interdisciplinary collaborative research center of the German Research Foundation, 2002 habilitation (Privatdozentin Dr. phil. - awarded the venia legendi in the department African Studies), 2002–2007 Heisenberg Elite Scholarship from the German Research Foundation and since 1993 lecturer in African languages). Since 2005 she has been teaching African linguistics, member of the Center for International Africa Research (ZIAF / VAD) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt . Since 2008 she has been head of the Institute for Orthography and Writing Technology (LOS) in Frankfurt-Bornheim . Since 2008 she has been teaching as a professor in Frankfurt am Main .

Her main research interests are pygmy languages ​​in Africa as ways to the original language of mankind, the emergence and change of the grammar of human language, universal definition of the word class ' ideophone ' and individual language descriptions : documentation and analysis of the pygmy language Baka (Cameroon) and the Schnalz language Khwe ( Namibia ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Contes et proverbes des pygmées Baka (= Paroles d'Afrique ). Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique, Paris 1989, OCLC 28150571 .
  • with Bernd Heine , Tom Güldemann , Donald A. Lessau, Heinz Roberg, Mathias Schladt and Thomas Stolz : Conceptual Shift. A lexicon of grammaticalization processes in African languages (= Africanist working papers. Volume 34/35). Institute for African Studies, Cologne 1993, OCLC 706072887 .
  • The baka. Basics of a grammar from a grammaticalization perspective (= Africanist monographs. Volume 6). Institute for African Studies, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-929777-05-3 , (also dissertation, Cologne 1994).
  • with Dao Ngyengye: Folktales of the Kxoe (A Khoisan group in West Caprivi / Namibia) (= Namibian African Studies. Volume 6). Köppe, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-89645-081-6 .
  • Erhard Voeltz: Ideophones (= . typological Studies in Language band 44). John Benjamin, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1999, ISBN 1588110192 .
  • Contes des Bakas (Sud-Est Cameroun). Le cycle de Waito (= word art and documentary texts in African languages. Volume 16). Köppe, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89645-083-2 .
  • Khwe dictionary (= Namibian African Studies. Volume 7). Köppe, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89645-083-2 .
  • A grammar of modern Khwe (Central Khoisan) (= sources for Khoisan research. Volume 23). Köppe, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89645-863-6 .
  • Contes des pygmées Baka du Cameroun (= writings on African studies. Volume 14). Lang, Frankfurt / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2008, ISBN 3-631-57484-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kilian-Hatz, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich