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E-Mail: | jakunzma@uni-mainz.de |
| Promotionsfach: | Afrikanistik | |
| Dissertationstitel/Arbeitstitel: | A grammar of Mbum, an Adamawa language of Northern Cameroon | |
| Fach-/Arbeitsbereich: | FB 07: Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaft | |
| Mentor an der JGU: | Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nico Nassenstein | |
| Thema der Dissertation: |
In the course of my dissertation, I want to develop a comprehensive and up-to-date grammar of the Adamawa language Mbum spoken in northern Cameroon. Like many African languages, Mbum has only been documented and analyzed to a certain extent, particularly with regard to its phonological properties. My descriptive-linguistic study of Mbum should contribute to a more precise classification and enable a linguistic-theoretical and comparative examination of the Adamawa language. |
| 10/2019 – 11/2022 | Master of Arts in Empirical Linguistics (Major: African Linguistics), Goethe-University Frankfurt Thesis: A phonological study of urban Mbum (Kebi-Benue, Adamawa) Final grade: 1.1 |
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| Since 10/2019 | Master of Arts in Modern East Asian Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt | |
| 04/2014 – 10/2019 | Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Ethnology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz Thesis: Vergleich derivativer Prozesse am Verb in der afrikanischen Jugendsprache Yanké und ihrer Basissprache Lingála Final grade: 1.3 |
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| 03/2021 – 09/2021 |
Semester abroad at Osaka University, Japan | |
| 02/2017 – 07/2017 |
Semester abroad at Nelson Mandela-University in Gqeberha, South Africa | |
| 10/2022 | Sociolinguistic field research on language contact and the Adamawa language Mbum in Cameroon | |
| 11/2021 – 12/2021 | Descriptive-linguistic field research on the Bantu language Bangala in Uganda | |
| 01/2021 – 09/2021 | Multi-phase digital research on Mbum with collaborators from Cameroon | |
| 10/2020 – 02/2021 | Tutor for the undergraduate seminar “Einführung in die allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft”, Institute of Empirical Linguistics, Goethe-University Frankfurt | |
| 01/2020 – 09/2020, since 10/2021 | Student Assistant in the DFG project “Language use and linguistic variation in multilingual speaker groups in Ngaoundéré (North-Cameroon) (I & II)”, Institute of African Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt | |
| 11/2017 – 03/2018 | Tutor for the undergraduate seminar “Einführung in die Sprachstrukturen der Erde”, Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz | |
| 07/12/2022 | “Describing an understudied language of Northern Cameroon: Prominent phonetic and phonological features of Mbum (Adamawa)”, Phonology Colloquium in Frankfurt am Main | |
| 09/11/2022 | “Preliminary findings on the phonology of Mbum (Adamawa)”, LLACAN Colloquium at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, France | |
| 01/10/2022 | “Innovative linguistic strategies: Innovation through new combination in African youth languages”, “What is Innovation?” – Youth languages and morphosyntactic variation Workshop in Mainz | |
| 31/08/2022 | “Mbum (Adamawa) nouns and verbs: Tone patterns and (puzzling) alternations”, 51 Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) in Leiden, Netherlands | |
| 10/06/2022 | “Verbal derivation in the youth language Yanké: Morphosyntactic deviation from Lingala”, 9th International Conference on Bantu Languages in Blantyre, Malawi | |
| 2023 | Klaus Beyer & Janika Kunzmann: Retracing labial-velar consonants in Mbum (Adamawa): Between genetic transmission and language contact. Afrika und Übersee. | |
| 2022 | Review: Meeuwis, Michael (2020): A grammatical overview of Lingála: Revised and expanded edition. Afrikanistik Aegyptologie Online. | |
| 2022 | Diverging verb derivational strategies in the youth language Yanké. In Cynthia Groff, Andrea Hollington, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nico Nassenstein, Jacomine Nortier, Helma Pasch & Nurenzia Yannuar (eds.): Global perspectives on youth language practices. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 49-66. | |
| 10/2022 | Grant (travel expenses) for a field research stay in Cameroon, awarded by Sulzmann-Stiftung | |
| 05/2021 – 09/2021 | Scholarship for a semester abroad at Osaka University, awarded by the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) | |
| 03/2021 – 09/2021 | Scholarship (PROMOS) for a semester abroad at Osaka University, awarded by DAAD | |
| 04/2020 | Award for the best thesis in the field of African linguistics in German-speaking countries in 2019, awarded by Fachverband Afrikanistik e.V. | |