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Keywords: Stanford, sociolinguistics, Swahili, Arabic, Wald, discourse
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Charles Ferguson & Joseph Greenberg Lecture Series
Presents
Benji Wald
The Influence of Arabic on the Syntax of Swahili Discourse
About the Speaker:
Dr. Wald received his Ph.D. from Columbia University with a
dissertation on "Variation in the tense-markers of Mombasa Swahili".
He has published widely on issues involving multilingualism as well as
on discourse structure and semantics. He has written on tense in
Bantu, relating variation and discourse functions; he has most
recently been investing multilingualism and education in East Los
Angeles while still contributing actively to discussions of Bantu
linguistics, discourse, and first and second language acquisition, as
well as his activity in multilingualism.
Dr. Wald has participated in fieldwork activities ranging from
Montreal to Tanzania. He has spent an extensive about time in Africa
(western, eastern, and central) and conducted research in Mexico,
Chicago, London, Manchester, and Los Angeles.
His field of expertise focusses on speech behavior: grammatical
analysis, including syntactic, phonological acoustics, discourse and
conversational analysis.
In addition to heading projects relating the speech behavior of
bilinguals to educational concerns, Dr. Wald has been involved in a
number of projects in an advisory or consultative capacity, dealing
with (1) bilingual and educational concerns (2) the study of Black
English (3) a wide variety of monolingual American English dialects,
involving both syntactic and acoustic analysis (4) studies of British
English dialects (5) Urban and rural Swahili dialects (6) Pidgins and
creoles in the Caribbean and West Africa (7) Adult interlanguage of
speakers from a variety of different backgrounds (8) Mexican, Mexican
American and Caribbean varieties of Spanish, both independently and in
conjunction with specialists in these areas.
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Date: Tuesday February 4
Time: 3:15 PM
Place: History (Bldg. 200) Rm 217
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Future Linguistics Department Events:
Jan 28: Bruce Hayes
Feb 4: F/G Lecture: Benji Wald
Feb 11: Colloq: TBA
Feb 18: F/G Lecture: Peter Trudgill
Feb 25: Colloq: Judy Hochberg
Mar 4: TBA
Mar 11: No Talk This week
All talks will begin at 3:15 and will be held in the history building
room 217 (Bldg. 200) on the Stanford University Campus.
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