Dr Oliver Bond
BA, MA, PhD (Manchester)
Overview
Department of Linguistics
(Researcher in Language Documentation)
Typology, morpho-syntax, language documentation and description, historical linguistics, negation systems, agreement systems, cognate objects, Niger-Congo languages, Oceanic languages, Eleme (Rivers State, Nigeria)Contact Details
- Name:
- Dr Oliver Bond
- Email address:
- ob1@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4582
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 4403
- Curriculum Vitae:
- Curriculuim Vitae (pdf; 95kb)
- Personal Website:
- http://www.eleme.org.uk
Teaching
In 2008/9 I am teaching two courses in the Department of Linguistics: the first half of Introduction to the Study of Language (Term 1) and Linguistic Typology (Term 2). Students who are enrolled for these courses can access the full syllabus, handouts and assignments from the Blackboard web site.
Courses Taught
Research
As a Researcher in Language Documentation in the Endangered Languages Academic Programme (ELAP), I am currently working on a research project concerning the form and distribution of negative constructions across the world's languages. This project has been dubbed NegTyp. Unlike previous work in this domain, the project is designed with sensitivity to the contemporary objectives of documentary linguistics and reflects the need for contextual data in understanding the use of negatives across languages. My PhD research at the University of Manchester focused on Eleme (Ogonoid, Benue-Congo), an under-described language spoken in southeast Nigeria. My thesis, entitled 'Aspects of Eleme verbal morphosyntax', discusses Eleme fieldwork data from a functional-typological perspective, with a focus on participant reference (including logophoric reference and applicative morphology) and tense-aspect morphology. My current research in Eleme concerns the use of applicative morphology in progressive constructions and paradigmatic asymmetries found in the verbal agreement system. I am also working on a typology of cognate objects with Greg Anderson, which includes much data concerning Eleme cognate objects.Expertise
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Available for
Regional Expertise
- Africa
Country Expertise
- Nigeria
Languages
Publications
Edited Books
Austin, Peter K. and Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David, eds. (2007) Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory. London, UK: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.
Chapters in Books
Bond, Oliver (2008) 'Multiple analytical perspectives of the Eleme Anterior-Perfective.' In: Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of Papers Selected from the CIL 18 [CD-ROM]. Seoul: Linguistic Society of Korea, pp. 1480-1496.
Bond, Oliver (2007) 'Towards a canon for negation.' In: Austin, Peter K. and Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David, (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory. London, UK: Department of Linguistics, SOAS, pp. 39-49.
Austin, Peter K. and Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David (2007) 'Introduction.' In: Austin, Peter K. and Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David, (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory. London, UK: Department of Linguistics, SOAS, pp. 1-2.
Bond, Oliver (2006) 'A broader perspective on point of view: logophoricity in Ogonoid languages.' In: Mugane, John and Hutchinson, John P. and Worman, Dee A., (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspective. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 234-244.
Bond, Oliver and Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2006) 'Divergent Structure in Ogonoid Languages.' In: Cover, Rebecca T. and Kim, Yuni, (eds.), Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society: Special Session on Languages of West Africa. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Articles
Hildebrandt, Kristine A. and Bond, Oliver (2009) 'WALS in the university classroom: A review.' Linguistic Typology, 13 (1). pp. 183-193.
Bond, Oliver (2009) 'The locative-applicative in Eleme.' Transactions of the Philological Society, 107 (1). pp. 1-30.
Book Reviews
Bond, Oliver (2009) Review of Heine, Bernd, & Nurse, Derek, 2008. A linguistic geography of Africa (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Linguistics, 45 (2). pp. 472-476.
