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Dr. Minah Nabirye
Dr. Minah Nabirye
minah.nabirye@ugent.be
Google Scholar
http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-311818917/
Personal website
Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Research group(s)
BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
Other institution(s)
Kyambogo University, Kampala
Research Focus
Linguistics
Research Period
Contemporary
Research Region
Africa
Research Language
African languages
Research Methodology
Comparative
Field research
Language and text analysis
Quantitative
Surveys
Additional tags
Bantu corpus linguistics
Bantu lexicography
Lusoga
Uganda
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Language and culture documentation in Uganda
(
2022
-
2027
)
Preserving endangered and unrecorded languages in Busoga
(
2017
-
2017
)
Projects as postdoc
Modality in Swahili. Variation, change and transfer
(
2024
-
2027
)
The past and present of Bantu languages. Integrating micro-typology, historical-comparative linguistics and lexicography
(
2021
-
2023
)
Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax
(
2018
-
2022
)
Projects as PhD researcher
A corpus-based grammar of Lusoga
(
2010
-
2016
)
Projects as researcher
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar
(
2018
-
2018
)
Publications
Key publications
A quantitative analysis of the morphology, morphophonology and semantic import of the Lusoga noun
(2010
)
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Minah Nabirye
Digitizing the monolingual Lusoga dictionary: challenges and prospects
(2013
)
Minah Nabirye
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Most recent publications
Bernander, Rasmus, et al. “Modality in Swahili : Epistemic Modal Adverbs in Swahili : Insights from a Historical Swahili Corpus.”
Abstracts of Kongamano La Kiswahili La 37 / 37th Swahili Colloquium : Uhuru Na Ubunifu / Freedom and Creativity, Bayreuth University, Germany, 30 May – 1 June 2025
, edited by Clarissa Vierke, African Linguistics and Literatures, Bayreuth University, 2025.
Cohen, David William, and Minah Nabirye.
The Weight of Lufu: Essays on Busoga Before 1900
. Vol. 4, Menha Publishers, 2025.
Devos, Maud, et al. “Mwenda Bure Si Mkaa Bure Huenda Akaokota [Better to Wander Idly than to Sit Idly, as One Might Come across Something] / Diachronic, Comparative & Synchronic Queries into the Origin and Development of the Epistemic Possibility Adverb ‘Huenda.’”
Presentation at the Start-up Meeting for the RJ-Funded Project “Modality in Swahili – Variation, Change and Transfer,”
Faculty of Humanities, Gothenburg University, 2024.
Nabirye, Minah.
Obuyumu Mu Busoga
. Vol. 3, Menha Publishers, 2024.
Nabirye, Minah. “Made in Uganda : Solutions to Language Problems in the Ugandan Context.”
Abstracts of the Third Biannual Conference of the Language Association of Eastern Africa (LAEA), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 15-16 August 2023
, edited by Edith Natukunda Togboa [missing], School of Languages, Literature and Communication, Makerere University, 2023.
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