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Dr. Minah Nabirye
Dr. Minah Nabirye
minah.nabirye@ugent.be
Google Scholar
http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-311818917/
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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 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.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice, and Minah Nabirye. “Towards a Monitor Corpus for a Bantu Language : A Case Study of Neology Detection in Lusoga.”
Dictionaries and Society : Book of Abstracts of the 20th EURALEX International Congress
, edited by Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus et al., IDS-Verlag, 2022, pp. 233–233.
Nabirye, Minah, and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, editors.
Enkaana : Fieldwork Texts Compiled by David William Cohen on the History of the Basoga People
. Vol. 2, Menha Publishers, 2022.
Marlo, Michael R., et al. “Reduplication in Lusoga.”
AFRICANA LINGUISTICA
, vol. 28, 2022, pp. 147–97, doi:10.2143/AL.28.0.3291210.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice, and Minah Nabirye. “Towards a Monitor Corpus for a Bantu Language : A Case Study of Neology Detection in Lusoga.”
Dictionaries and Society : Proceedings of the 20th EURALEX International Congress
, edited by Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus et al., IDS-Verlag, 2022, pp. 833–49.
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