Henning Schreiber (Africanist)
Henning Schreiber (born May 24, 1973 in Wasserlos ) is a German Africanist .
Life
From 2000 to 2003 he was a research assistant ; DFG special research area “Cultural Development and Language History in the Natural Area of the West African Savannah”. From 2003 to 2004 he was a research assistant; DFG research project: “Comparative studies on the diachronic stratification of language contact in the Sahel and Sudan zones. The vocabulary and its spatial distribution of Mande, Chadian, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilotic ”. From 2005 to 2009 he was a research associate and academic advisor at the Goethe University , Institute for African Linguistics. From 2009 to 2015 he taught as a junior professor for African linguistics at the University of Hamburg . Since 2016 he has been Professor of African Linguistics, research focus: "African Languages in Context", in Hamburg .
His main research interests are language contact and contact-related variation, sociolinguistics and theory of social networks, language documentation and corpus linguistics, language reconstruction, language classification, Mande and related West African languages and Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Mali.
Fonts (selection)
- A Historical Phonology of the Niger-Volta Languages. A contribution to the study of the linguistic history of the eastern East Mandes languages . Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-89645-076-0 .
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| SURNAME | Schreiber, Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Africanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waterless |