Friederike Lupke
2021
Lupke, Friederike; Harding-Esch, Philip; Coleman, Hywel; Benson, Carol; Trudell, Barbara; Heugh, Kathleen Anne; Nakabugo, Mary Goretti; Bischoff, Shannon; Encabo, Mary; Biagui, Aimé Césaire; Biaye, Landing; Diatta, Julienne; Mané, Alpha Naby; Preira, Gérard; Sagna, Jérémi Fahed; Weidl, Miriam; Darby, Chris; Dijkstra, Jorunn; Sow, Ndiémé; Ndione, Augustin; Juillard, Caroline; Rossiter, Ann; Cheffy, Ian; Djité, Paulin; Mufwene, Salikoko; Hessana, Ahmat; Harmon, Jimmy; Tarr, Natalie; Sambou, Aly; Ly, Mouhamed Abdallah; Seck, Abdourahmane; Samb, Yamar; Sowton, Chris; Lefranc, Alexis; Wiseman, Anne
2021 Philip Harding-Esch & Hywel Coleman (Eds.) Language and the Sustainable Development Goals: Selected proceedings from the 12th Language and Development Conference, Dakar, Senegal 2017 Book
British Council, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-86355-982-2.
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abstract = {So far, language has largely been relegated to the periphery of development decision making spaces; this absence of language in development discourse has constituted a significant obstacle to progress. This volume provides an opportunity for stakeholders from different disciplines to reflect on the relationships between language and development in the context of three sub-themes of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 1. Multilingualism for quality, equitable and inclusive education; 2. Language, skills and sustainable economic growth; and 3. Communication, peace and justice. The contributions focus on inclusive language policy and practice within education, trade, creative expression, justice and peacebuilding. The chapters are insightful and enlightening in advancing the debate on the interplay between language and development, particularly with respect to the implementation of the SDGs. The book is certainly a rich addition to the body of literature on language and development. Francisco Matsinhe Sozinho Former Executive Secretary, African Academy of Languages; former Deputy Executive Secretary, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa; Trustee, Language and Development Conference Series This volume significantly advances critiques of the role of language in sustainable development. Contributors build on previous criticism which has highlighted the invisibility of language within development initiatives, specifically focusing on the SDGs. In covering a range of geographical and thematic contexts, the volume identifies what must be done to ensure that individuals in multilingual environments can effectively engage with educational, economic and legal systems. Through considering the importance of language across a range of SDGs, the need to adopt an interdisciplinary perspective in researching language and development issues is made clear. The volume also shows that researchers and practitioners working within the field of language and sustainable development must give sufficient attention to knowledge from the Global South and reject the hegemony of knowledge from the Global North. This is a must-read for anyone interested in language and development. Colin Reilly Senior Research Officer, University of Essex, UK; Secretary, Language in Africa Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics},
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Lupke, Friederike
Patterns and perspectives shape perceptions: epistemological and methodological reflections on the study of small-scale multilingualism Journal Article
In: International Journal of Bilingualism, 2021.
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abstract = {Aims and objectives: This paper captures social dimensions of language in highly diverse small-scale multilingual contexts that appear to pose challenges for (socio)linguistic description and documentation. I focus on the seeming contradiction of monolingual imaginations of places with heterogeneous and multilingual inhabitants, on great fluidity and variability of language use and the concomitant limits of reification-based identification of codes, and on personalised repertoires shaped by individual trajectories and relational, rather than categorical, stances. Approach: I propose patterns and perspectives as two interrelated dimensions to guide research in configurations of this kind, illustrating epistemological and methodological points through data from multilingual settings in Casamance, Senegal. Data and analysis: I focus on data collected in the village of Agnack Grand and its surroundings, but also include data from across the Lower Casamance and adjacent regions of Guinea Bissau, discussing patterns of multilingual organisation and extracts from conversation and how their speech forms are categorised. Findings: The paper brings sociohistorical dimensions of small-scale multilingualism to the fore and identifies their lasting influences on spatial representations of language regimes. Linguistic spaces influence perspectives on speech events taking place in them and circumscribe speech participants' and observers' choices in describing repertoires, producing and analysing speech forms. Beyond the selection of language modes, perspective also determines how speech forms are categorised. I demonstrate that the patterns speakers and observers have experienced and the perspectives they assume are decisive in shaping their perception. Originality: My central observation is that there is no objective, neutral viewpoint on (multilingual) speech, but that positionality frames it at all levels. I develop new epistemologies for studying these dimensions. Significance: Putting the categorisation processes employed by speakers and observers and their underlying motivations centre stage and integrating sociolinguistic and anthropological linguistic methods and historical knowledge into linguistic description and documentation constitutes an innovative research programme.},
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2020
Lupke, Friederike
Standardization in highly multilingual national contexts: The shifting interpretations, limited reach, and great symbolic power of ethnonationalist visions Book Chapter
In: pp. 139-169, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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abstract = {Standard languages have high symbolic significance but little actual use in highly multilingual national contexts. This chapter explores the tension between the reification of fluid language use into codified languages and fluid and variable communicative practices in speech and writing in a number of African sociolinguistic settings. Starting with the observation that the notion of standard languages and of ethnolinguistic groups using them goes back to the colonial period, I proceed to investigate different visions of language as they emerge from the writing conventions and language visions of colonial anticolonial actors from this time, focusing on a case study on the West Afrian Manding cluster. I continue to explore attitudes to purity and standardisation in contemporary scripts and language policies and in written and spoken language use, also including so-called ‘mixed’ registers such as Urban Wolof and Sheng. I end the chapter by presenting innovative approaches on bypassing the standard (yet maintaining compatibility to it), focusing on the LILIEMA programme for inclusive education in a highly multilingual region of Senegal. Key words Standardisation; multilingual settings; Manding; Urban Wolof; Sheng; N’ko; LILIEMA; Africa; colonial language policies; fluid communicative practices.},
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Lupke, Friederike
The writing’s on the wall: spaces for language-independent and language-based literacies Journal Article
In: International Journal of Multilingualism, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1-22 , 2020.
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abstract = {This article investigates what is commonly called multilingual writing. Based on case studies from Mali, and drawing on a number of West African settings, it argues that in fact, not all ‘multilingual’ writing is in effect multilingual. The article proposes a two-tiered classification of types of writing, based on linguistic properties of texts and the differing perspectives of writers and readers. This analysis contrasts writers’ intentions to write (in) a particular language vs. to mobilise linguistic resources in a more holistic manner. The latter type of writing, it is argued, is better characterised as language-independent, since writers do not draw borders between what can be analysed as different languages from a code-based perspective often applied by analysts. The co-existence, spaces, and potentials of language-based and language-independent writing are examined in detail. This type of writing is invisible to language planners and often taken to be unreadable, akin to the mythical writing on the wall inspiring the title of the paper. Yet, in contexts with low educational resources and great linguistic diversity, language-independent writing presents a resilient and underappreciated alternative to language-based literacies.},
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Lupke, Friederike; Biagui, Aimé Césaire; Biai, Landing; Diatta, Julienne; Mané, Alpha Naby; Preira, Gérard; Sagna, Jérémi Fahed; Weidl, Miriam
LILIEMA: Language-independent literacies for inclusive education in multilingual areas Book Chapter
In: British Council, 2020.
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abstract = {This chapter introduces the innovative educational programme LILIEMA, a repertoire-based and language-independent method for achieving and nurturing culturally anchored literacy in multilingual contexts. Unique in kind, LILIEMA is the first programme that introduces literacy not based on a particular language but by drawing on the entire repertoire of learners present in the classroom. The flexible and adaptive design principle underpinning the method is inspired by multilingual oral and written communicative practices that are widespread throughout West Africa. LILIEMA has been jointly created, piloted and further developed by us-a team of teachers, trainers, researchers and community members from the Global South and the Global North. We introduce the motivations for developing LILIEMA, present the syllabus and teaching materials of the method and describe its implementation in the Casamance region in southern Senegal, drawing on examples from LILIEMA classrooms. We end the chapter by making a case for its potential to contribute to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in the domain of education in multilingual settings characterised by mobility and migration.},
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2018
Lupke, Friederike
Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa Book Chapter
In: pp. 468-490, Cambridge University, 2018.
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abstract = {Language endangerment and death is seen as a process that operates world-wide. The metaphors used to describe the situations of language change and shift1 captured under this umbrella term cast them as a human tragedy of the largest imaginable scale. Yet, when shifting our gaze to Africa, stories of resilience and adaptivity, of mobility, multilingualism and creativity, flank stories of disappearance and extinction. In this introduction I gauge how useful global perspectives on language endangerment and loss (henceforth LEL; see Mufwene forthcoming) are; whether they are really global; and what kind of mould they provide for describing locally anchored practices. A critique of universal scales and models and a quest for different perspectives on communicative practices on the African continent and for new ways to describe and document them is made in the remainder of the introduction, but runs through the chapter.},
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Lupke, Friederike
Multiple Choice: Language Use and Cultural Practice in Rural Casamance between Convergence and Divergence Book Chapter
In: Knörr, Jaqueline; Filho, Wilson Trajano (Ed.): pp. 179-208, Berghahn, 2018, ISBN: 9789004363397.
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2017
Lupke, Friederike
In: Language, vol. 93, no. 4, pp. e275-e279, 2017.
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Lupke, Friederike; Montero-Melis, Guillermo; Eisenbeiss, Sonja; Narasimhan, Bhuvana; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide; Kita, Sotaro; Kopecka, Anetta; Nikitina, Tatiana; Tragel, Ilona; Jaeger, T Florian; Bohnemeyer, Juergen
Satellite- vs. Verb-Framing Underpredicts Nonverbal Motion Categorization: Insights from a Large Language Sample and Simulations Journal Article
In: Cognitive Semantics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 36-61, 2017.
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Lupke, Friederike
Escaping the tyranny of writing: West African regimes of writing as a model for multilingual literacy Book Chapter
In: Juffermans, Kasper; Weth, Constanze (Ed.): pp. 129–148, Bloomsbury, 2017, ISBN: 978-1350123113.
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abstract = {This chapter discusses the challenges faced by Chinese and South Asian Hongkongers to acquire, develop and maintain literacy in standard written Chinese (SWC). Language acquisition or learning is mediated by speech (DeFrancis 2002; Erbaugh 2002; Perfetti and Dunlap 2008). The relative ease of literacy acquisition, development and maintenance depends largely on how closely speech sounds are mapped onto more or less discrete graphic units of the target language. Being non-alphabetic and morphosyllabic, Chinese characters (hanzi, æ¼¢å—) are orthographically deep, difficult to learn and easy to forget. Since the lexis and grammar of SWC are essentially based on Mandarin, speakers of Chinese ‘dialects’ such as Cantonese do not have the benefit of ‘writing as one speaks’. Considerable effort is needed to master Mandarin-based words, which in Hong Kong (and Macau) Special Administrative Region are taught and learnt in Cantonese. Although colloquial written Cantonese elements are widespread in mass and social media, they are banned and excluded from school literacy. E-gadgets being so widespread and convenient today, Chinese characters are increasingly inputted electronically rather than composed by hand. That trend accentuates the challenge of remembering and retrieving Chinese characters. If Cantonese-L1 Hongkongers find it difficult to develop and maintain literacy in their ‘mother tongue’, one can Writing Chinese: A Challenge for easily imagine the linguistic predicament faced by South Asian Hongkongers who need to struggle with learning Cantonese in addition, and who see their life chances significantly.},
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Lupke, Friederike; Cobbinah, Alexander; Hantgan, Abbie; Watson, Rachel
Carrefour des langues, carrefour des paradigmes Book Chapter
In: Auzanneau, Michelle; Auzanneau, Michelle; Bento, Margaret; Leclère, Malory (Ed.): pp. 79-97, Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2017, ISBN: 9782813002198.
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Lupke, Friederike
Supporting vital repertoires, not revitalizing languages Book Chapter
In: Hinton, Leanne (Ed.): pp. 475-485, Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 9781138674493.
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2016
Lupke, Friederike
Uncovering small-scale multilingualism Journal Article
In: Critical Multilingualism Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 35-74, 2016.
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abstract = {This paper uncovers a particular type of multilingualism: small-scale multilingualism, meant here to designate communicative practices in heteroglossic societies in which multilingual interaction is not governed by domain specialization and hierarchical relationships of the different named languages and lects used in them, but by deeply rooted social practices within a meaningful geographic setting. These settings are mainly attested in areas of the globe that have been spared from Western settlement colonies. Their study is of great interest for advancing our understanding not just of language contact, but of the social conditions that have shaped language use and language structure for most of human history. Calling for an integrated approach combining sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, descriptivetypological and ethnographic approaches, I present a number of case studies from West Africa, Amazonia, Northern Australia and Melanesia, and typologize them according to the language ideologies governing them and their known patterns of language use.},
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Lupke, Friederike
Pure fiction – the interplay of indexical and essentialist language ideologies and heterogeneous practices. A view from Agnack Journal Article
In: Language Documentation and Conservation, vol. 10, pp. 8-39, 2016, ISBN: 978-0-9856211-6-2.
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Lupke, Friederike
Atlantic classification Book Chapter
In: Vossen, Rainer (Ed.): Oxford University Press, 2016.
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abstract = {Atlantic is one of the controversial branches of the Niger-Congo language family. Both its validity as a genetic group and its internal classification are far from being settled. The longstanding debate on the status and structure of Atlantic cannot be closed before the descriptive situation of these languages allows for sufficient and reliable lexical data; before attempts at applying the comparative method have been made; and before the extensive role of language contact for shaping the languages in question is taken into account. Although no typological feature or feature combinations characterizes the group as a whole, several features are considered typical for Atlantic languages, including noun class systems, consonant mutation, and complex systems of verbal derivation, which have been used to justify suggested genealogical groupings. Atlantic languages, with the exception of Fula, are attested in an area from Liberia to Senegal, stretching from the Atlantic coast to the hinterland.},
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2015
Lupke, Friederike
Ideologies and typologies of language endangerment in Africa Book Chapter
In: Essegbey, James A; Henderson, Brent; Laughlin, Fiona Mc (Ed.): pp. 59–106, John Benjamins, 2015.
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abstract = {This chapter aims at redressing the deplorable fact that African languages, their social life and vitality, are assessed according to ideas of Africa grounded in Western language ideologies and based and on language criteria developed based on American and Australian contexts of language endangerment. The chapter challenges the validity of these ideologies to account for language use in African setting and starts out by providing the necessary background on the history of description of African languages and on assumptions on their vitality as driven by colonial actors. It then paints a radically different picture of African languages by looking at them as codes in the multilingual repertoires of the language ecologies in which they are used and by describing the social factors that nurture the astonishing linguistic diversity on the continent. In order to do justice to the specificity of African language situations, where settlement colonies creating the conflictual polyglossic situations typical for America and Australia remain an exception, an alternative set of vitality parameters for African languages is proposed. The chapter closes with the observation that multilingual language use as a socially embedded practice in complex linguistic ecologies needs to become a focus of descriptive and documentary research on African languages.},
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Lupke, Friederike
Denorthernising multilingualism and multilingualism research framing language in the Global North Journal Article
In: VOICES from around the world, special issue on multilingualism in the Global South, no. 3, 2015.
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2014
Lupke, Friederike; Bao-Diop, Sokhna
Beneath the surface - contemporary Ajami writing in West Africa exemplified through Wolofal Book Chapter
In: Juffermans, Kasper; Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun; Abdelhay, Ashraf (Ed.): pp. 86-114, Cambridge Scholars, 2014, ISBN: 9781443858335.
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abstract = {Despite being (near to) invisible to educators, language planners and development activists, a pre-colonial literacy tradition continues to be practiced throughout those areas of Africa that are in the sphere of influence of Islam. This writing tradition uses Arabic-based scripts (also called Ajami) for the writing of African languages. The historical role of the most influential Ajami scripts–eg for Hausa, Fula, Swahili, and Wolof–is well-documented. Their contemporary weight is less well understood, partly because of their survival in informal and religious contexts only, and partly because of dominant ideologies of missionaries, language planners and official bodies that insist on literacy in Roman scripts (see Pasch 2008 for a good overview). In this chapter, we provide an overview of the main Ajami scripts used in present-day West Africa and what functions they assume. Examples from our own fieldwork in Guinea, Cameroon and Senegal illustrate how Ajami writing becomes visible as soon as a Eurocentric perspective on reading and writing is abandoned. A case study on Wolofal (the name for the Ajami tradition for the de facto national language of Senegal, Wolof) focuses on its importance for the linguistic landscape of Senegal, especially in the religious and commercial city of Touba. In contrast to the Ajami writing of Pulaar, which is in decline in Senegal, Wolofal continues to thrive.},
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Lupke, Friederike; Cobbinah, Alexander
When number meets classification. The linguistic expression of number in Baïnounk languages Book Chapter
In: Dimmendaal, Gerrit; Storch, Anne (Ed.): pp. 199-220, John Benjamins, 2014.
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2013
Lupke, Friederike; Storch, Anne
Language dynamics Book Chapter
In: pp. 267-344, De Gruyter Mouton, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-61451-251-6.
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Lupke, Friederike; Storch, Anne
Not languages: repertoires as lived and living experience Book Chapter
In: vol. 5, pp. 345-359, De Gruyter Mouton, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-61451-251-6.
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abstract = {Languages, in this book, are people and their towns and villages, their life stories and experiences as in chapter 1, their social relationships, rituals and masks (chapter 2), ideas and symbols (chapter 3), their tales, memories, monuments, libraries and pictures (chapter 4), and their mobilities, constant journeys, searches, and unhealed antagonisms (chapter 5). To us, language is substantial in the actual sense of the word, and tangible, but at the same time fluid and flexible, and constantly changing its shades of colour such that it seems to be abstract and immaterial, so that the only way to describe and possess it seems to be to number, write and store it. We have therefore dwelt much upon the production of knowledge on languages and repertoires, so as to make transparent exactly what such descriptions and documentations are and what they aren’t. },
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Lupke, Friederike; Storch, Anne
Language and knowledge Book Chapter
In: pp. 181-266, De Gruyter Mouton, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-61451-251-6.
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Lupke, Friederike; Storch, Anne
Repertoires and Choices in African Languages Book Chapter
In: Mouton de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN: 9781614511946.
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abstract = {Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of multilingualism. This volume investigates African minority languages in the context of changing patterns of multilingualism, and also assesses the status of African languages in terms of existing influential vitality scales. An important aspect of multilingual praxis is the speakers' agency in making choices, their repertoires of registers and the multiplicity of language ideology associated with different ways of speaking. The volume represents a new and original contribution to the ethnography of speaking of multilingual practices and the cultural ideas associated with them.},
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2012
Lupke, Friederike; Jaggar, Philip J.
North and West African Languages Book Chapter
In: pp. 60-85, Thames & Hudson, 2012.
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Lupke, Friederike; Cobbinah, Alexander
Not cut to fit - zero-coded passives in African languages Book Chapter
In: Brenzinger, Matthias; Fehn, Anna-Maria (Ed.): pp. 153-164, Rüdiger Köppe, 2012.
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2011
Lupke, Friederike
Orthography development Book Chapter
In: Austin, Peter K; Sallabank, Julia (Ed.): pp. 312-336, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780521882156.
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abstract = {Vernacular literacy involves much more than merely devising the optimal orthography for a given language as many linguists would have us believe.(Mühlhäusler 1990: 205)
Many endangered languages are not written; therefore, researchers and speech communities often wish for their GRAPHIZATION (Fishman 1974). The existence of a written code is seen as an essential prerequisite for many activities in favour of their maintenance and revitalization, such as dictionary writing (see Mosel, Chapter 17), curriculum development and the design of language-teaching courses (see Coronel-Molina and McCarty, Chapter 18).},
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Many endangered languages are not written; therefore, researchers and speech communities often wish for their GRAPHIZATION (Fishman 1974). The existence of a written code is seen as an essential prerequisite for many activities in favour of their maintenance and revitalization, such as dictionary writing (see Mosel, Chapter 17), curriculum development and the design of language-teaching courses (see Coronel-Molina and McCarty, Chapter 18).
2010
Lupke, Friederike
Multilingualism and language contact in West Africa: towards a holistic perspective Journal Article
In: Journal of Language Contact, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-12, 2010.
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Lupke, Friederike
Language and identity in flux: in search of Baïnouk Journal Article
In: Journal of Language Contact THEMA, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 155-174 , 2010.
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Lupke, Friederike
Rare and endangered - languages or features? An African perspective Journal Article
In: Journal of West African Languages, vol. 37, pp. 119-139, 2010.
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2009
Lupke, Friederike
At the margin. African endangered languages in the context of global endangerment discourses Journal Article
In: African Research & Documentation, no. 109, pp. 15-41, 2009.
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abstract = {The importance of the old caste structure is decreasing, and social exchange through marriage between people of different ethnic and social status, unthinkable fifty years ago, has become a concomitant fact of living together. Saare Kindia has a primary school and a middle school, and although the schooling rates are low, 7 schooling has an important impact on society: the school is the only place where the official language French is spoken and taught.[...] the mobility of civil servants, especially teachers, creates the only natural context for the use of French, unless a common African language is available for communication. Indirect consequences of an unresolved and continuing conflict, such as material insecurity, and geographical isolation, certainly have increased, and continue to do so, the flux of migration, also weakening the Baïnouk languages further.},
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Lupke, Friederike
Data collection documentation methods for field-based language documentation Journal Article
In: Language documentation and description, vol. 6, pp. 1-39, 2009, ISSN: 1740-6234.
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2008
Lupke, Friederike
Participant marking in Jalonke Book Chapter
In: Dimmendaal, Gerrit (Ed.): pp. 173-214, John Benjamins, 2008.
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abstract = {This paper introduces participant coding in Jalonke, a Central Mande language of Guinea. The paper gives an appraisal of noun/verb distinction in the language and establishes verbs as heads of verb phrases. It sets out to identify the syntactic status and thematic roles of the participants of Jalonke verbs. The paper further investigates argument structure classes of the language; that is, classes of verbs that can be distinguished based on the number and status of their participants. It is shown that Jalonke has intransitive, transitive, causative/inchoative alternating and reflexive-only verbs, and that the motivation for three of these classes lies in an interaction of the parameters of causation type, likelihood of the denoted event to be construed as uncaused vs. externally caused and the inclination of the language towards fundamental transitivity vs. fundamental intransitivity. The fourth class of reflexive-only verbs is determined through a positive specification for control. The main result of a quantitative study on argument realization in discourse are discussed in order to demonstrate that in contrast to other languages and approaches, argument structure in Jalonke can be taken to be lexically specified.},
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2007
Lupke, Friederike
Smash it again, Sam’: Verbs of cutting and breaking in Jalonke Journal Article
In: Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 251-261, 2007.
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Lupke, Friederike; Bohnemeyer, Jürgen; Enfield, Nicholas J; Essegbey, James; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide; Kita, Sotaro; Ameka, Felix K
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events Journal Article
In: Language, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 495-532 , 2007.
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Lupke, Friederike
It's a split, but is it unaccusativity?: Two classes of intransitive verbs in Jalonke Journal Article
In: Studies in Language, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 525-568, 2007.
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Lupke, Friederike
On giving, receiving, affecting and benefitting in Jalonke Journal Article
In: Linguistics, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 539-576, 2007.
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Lupke, Friederike
Vanishing voice - the morphologically zero-coded passive of Jalonke Journal Article
In: Linguistische Berichte, vol. 14, pp. 173-190, 2007.
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abstract = {Satisfying answers to many current puzzles about languages and their origins will not emerge until linguists have studied many languages. To exclude exotic languages from our study is like expecting botanists to study only florist shop roses and greenhouse tomatoes and then tell us what the plant world is like. Linguistic diversity gives us unique perspectives into the mind because it reveals the many creative ways in which humans organize their experience.(Nettle & Romaine 2000: 11)
While common phenomena of languages and typologically widespread features will survive even if linguistic diversity continues to be drastically reduced, lowfrequency phenomena and rarely attested patterns are likely to be the first victims of language death. If these features–well-known examples include the sound inventory of Ubykh with 81 consonants and only 3 vowels, or the OVS word order in Urarina (see Olawsky (this volume))–are not documented while the languages in which they occur are still spoken, linguistic theory will suffer an enormous loss in terms of empirical data to inform it. The present paper describes the ‘vanishing voice’of Jalonke by investigating the cross-linguistically extremely rare case of a morphologically non-marked passive in this endangered language.},
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While common phenomena of languages and typologically widespread features will survive even if linguistic diversity continues to be drastically reduced, lowfrequency phenomena and rarely attested patterns are likely to be the first victims of language death. If these features–well-known examples include the sound inventory of Ubykh with 81 consonants and only 3 vowels, or the OVS word order in Urarina (see Olawsky (this volume))–are not documented while the languages in which they occur are still spoken, linguistic theory will suffer an enormous loss in terms of empirical data to inform it. The present paper describes the ‘vanishing voice’of Jalonke by investigating the cross-linguistically extremely rare case of a morphologically non-marked passive in this endangered language.
2006
Lupke, Friederike
Guinea - language situation Book Chapter
In: pp. 170-171, Elsevier, 2006.
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abstract = {Friederike Lüpke studied African linguistics, general linguistics, and phonetics at the University of Köln (Germany) and Manding (Bambara) at the Institut National des Langues et Civilsations Orientales in Paris (France). In 1999, she received her M.A. in African Linguistics with first honors from the University of Köln. She was then offered a Ph.D. scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Her Ph.D. thesis, entitled ‘A grammar of Jalonke argument structure,’ contains the first descriptive account of the Guinean Jalonke variety of Yalunka and is based on a year of field work in Guinea. In September 2003, she became a Research Fellow in the Endangered Languages Academic Programme of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (ELAP) at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (UK). Currently, she is working as a Lecturer in Language Documentation and Description in ELAP.},
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2005
Lupke, Friederike
A Grammar of Jalonke Argument Structure Journal Article
In: 2005.
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2004
Lupke, Friederike
Language planning in West Africa - who writes the script? Journal Article
In: Language documentation and description, vol. 2, pp. 90-107, 2004.
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Lupke, Friederike
Small is beautiful - The contribution of small field-based corpora to different linguistic disciplines: a Jalonke example Journal Article
In: Language Documentation and Description, vol. 3, pp. 75-105, 2004, ISSN: 1740-6234.
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2001
Lupke, Friederike; Hellwig, Birgit
Caused positions Book Chapter
In: Levinson, Stephen C; Enfield, Nick (Ed.): pp. 126-128, Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Language and Cognition Group, 2001.
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2000
Lupke, Friederike; Voeltz, Erhard F K; Camara, Adama
Jalonke. Syllabaire en langue jalonke Book
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 2000.
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1999
Lupke, Friederike
Das Kaninchen mit der Taschenuhr - Aspekte der Kategorisierung im Bambara Journal Article
In: 1999.
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