Linguists in other Departments
Africa
Graham Furniss
Professor of African Language Literature
African language literature; comparative African literature; Hausa language, linguistics and literature; Nigerian culture and language issues
Chege Githiora
Lecturer in Swahili
Swahili language, literature and linguistics; lexicography; Kikuyu language and literature; language planning and policy in East Africa; African diaspora in Latin America; language and culture in East Africa; orthography and standardization of African languages
Philip J Jaggar
Professor of West African Linguistics
Hausa language and linguistics; comparative Chadic
Lutz Marten
Senior Lecturer in Southern African Languages
Semantics; pragmatics; dynamic syntax; historical linguistics; comparative Bantu; Swahili; Herero
Martin Orwin
Lecturer in Somali and Amharic
Somali and Amharic language and literature; metrics and use of language in poetry
Akin Oyètádé
Lecturer in Yorùbá
Yorùbá language and literature; Yorùbá culture and linguistics with special reference to phonology; Yorùbá in the diaspora
China and Inner Asia
Nathan W Hill
Senior Lector in Tibetan
Old Tibetan literature and descriptive grammar; Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics; early Tibetan mythology and ritual.
Japan and Korea
Jae Hoon Yeon
Reader in Korean Language and Literature
Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; structure and history of Korean language; Korean language teaching and translation; modern Korean literature
Mika Kizu
Lecturer in Japanese
Theoretical linguistics; syntax; Japanese linguistics; second language acquisition
Barbara Pizziconi
Lecturer in Applied Japanese Linguistics
Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness
Near and Middle East
B George Hewitt
Professor of Caucasian Languages
Caucasian languages (especially South and North-West Caucasian) and linguistics; language work
Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies
Old and Middle Iranian languages; Indo-European comparative philology; history of Central Asia; identification and reading of inscriptions in Iranian languages; history of peoples, languages and religions along the Silk Road
Bengisu Rona
Senior Lecturer in Turkish Studies
Gender and social development in Turkey; Turkish media; literary trends in 19th and 20th century; linguistic change in Turkey
Mustafa Shah
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
The early Arabic linguistic tradition; classical Islamic theology and jurisprudence
Southeast Asia
Justin Watkins
Senior Lecturer in Burmese (Myanmar)
Burmese language and literature; Mon-Khmer and Tibeto-Burman languages; phonetics; computer lexicography
