Federico Falletti

Thesis title: Topics in the Grammar of Sengwer

PhD in Linguistics

Year of study: 2

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Room 1.17, Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh
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Biography

Qualifications

- BA in Wildlife Media (2016)

- MSc in Linguistics (2019) 

Research summary

My research revolves around descriptive linguistics, with a special focus on phonology, morphology and their interaction. I also have an interest in historical linguistics (of East Africa, especially), language evolution and ideophones.  

Current research interests

For my PhD project, I am describing some aspects of the grammar of Sengwer, a South Nilotic language of Kenya. In particular, I am focusing on tone phonology, nominal morphophonology (vowel and tone sandhi, ghost segments), number marking in nouns, nominative case marking by replacive grammatical tone and verbal morphophonology (replacive tone patterns marking aspect and mood, irregular stem alternations based on speech act participant subject reference).

Past project grants

- ELF Language Legacies Grant with the project 'Sengwer dictionary and storybook' (2022)
- BA/Leverhulme Small Grant as an RA with the project 'The sound system of Sengwer, an endangered language of Kenya'

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