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Dr. Andrew Harvey
Faculty of Languages and Literatures
African Languages & The Construction of Knowledge
Andrew Harvey is Junior Professor of African Languages & The Construction of Knowledge since 2022. From 2012 – during his Master's studies – to present, he has worked with several communities in central Tanzania, documenting and describing their languages, and learning how to do this in a community-focused manner along the way.
Beginning with work on Gorwaa (Afroasiatic, 2012-present) and expanding to Ihanzu (Niger-Congo, 2016-present) and Hadza (language isolate, 2019-present), Andrew's work engages with the complex language situation present in central Tanzania's Rift Valley, where languages of all four of Greenberg's (1963) African language phyla are spoken, and have been spoken for some time. His research foci include language contact and morphosyntax, with the understanding that any linguistic insight must be tied to a community-driven documentary record, combining and celebrating the languages, cultures, and histories of the speaker communities involved.
For further information, please visit Andrew's personal website:
www.andrewdtharvey.com
Academic Degrees
| 2018 | Doctorate: Linguistics, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom |
| 2013 | Master's: Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| 2011 | Bachelor's: French and Linguistics, Memorial University, St. John's, Canada |
Professional Background
| Since 2022 | Junior Professor of African Languages & The Construction of Knowledge, University of Bayreuth |
| 2019 - 2021 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Netherlands |
| 2018 - 2019 | Junior Fellow, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan |
Others
- 2018 - present: Member, Rift Valley Network
Faculty of Languages and Literatures
African Languages & The Construction of Knowledge
Andrew Harvey is a Junior Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Literatures at the University of Bayreuth. His interests include the languages of the Tanzanian rift, their documentation and description, their morphosyntax, and the histories and cultures of their speaker communities, especially as evinced through linguistic arts and language contact.
Faculty of Languages and Literatures
African Languages & The Construction of Knowledge
Publications
2021
Rift Valley Bibliography Version 1.4, 2021
2020
Andrew Harvey: Wolff, H. Ekkehard (Ed.): The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics. Cambridge, 2019. In:Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 83, S. 386-388: 2020
doi:10.1017/S0041977X20002335
Richard Griscom, Andrew Harvey: Hadza : an archive of language and cultural material from the Hadzabe people of Eyasi (Arusha, Manyara, Singida, and Simiyu regions, Tanzania), 2020
2019
Andrew Harvey, Bu'ú Saqwaré, Paschal Bu'ú, Raheli Lawi: Koonkír Hhandoo. In: Chris McCabe (Hrsg.): Poems from the Edge of Extinction : an Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages. - London : Chambers, 2019. - S. 42-51.
Andrew Harvey: Gorwaa (Tanzania) - Language Contexts. In: Language Documentation and Description, 16 (2019). - S. 127-168.
2018
Andrew Harvey: Word-markers : Toward a morphosyntactic description of the Gorwaa noun. In: SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 19 (2018). - S. 49-89.
Andrew Harvey: Pakani : A Gorwaa story. In: The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, 11 (2018). - S. 153-184.
Andrew Harvey: Mous, Marten: Alagwa : a South Cushitic language of Tanzania: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon. Köln, 2016. In:Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 39, S. 115-120: 2018
doi:10.1515/jall-2018-0007
Andrew Harvey:The Gorwaa Noun : Toward a description of the Gorwaa language. - London: 2018.
(Dissertation, 2018, SOAS, University of London)
doi:10.25501/SOAS.00030267
2017
Andrew Harvey: Gorwaa : an archive of language and cultural material from the Gorwaa people of Babati (Manyara Region, Tanzania), 2017
2016
Andrew Harvey, Abel Yamwaka Mreta: Swahili Loanwords in Gorwaa and Iraqw : Phonological and Morphological Observations. In: Kiswahili, 79 (2016). - S. 156-177.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.2527517
2014
Andrew Harvey: Epenthetic vowels in Swahili loanwords. In: Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 8 (2014). - S. 17-45.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.2527487
Faculty of Languages and Literatures
African Languages & The Construction of Knowledge
Dr. Andrew Harvey
E-mail: andrew.harvey@uni-bayreuth.de