Prof. Dr. Gabriele Sommer

Senior Fellow – African Linguistics

Bayreuth International School of African Studies
University of Bayreuth

95440 Bayreuth

Tel: +49 (0) 921 55-3557

Fax: +49 (0) 921 55-3641

areal linguistics, contact linguistics, languages and societies in Africa

southern Africa (Bantu, Khoisan), north-eastern Africa (Afroasiatic, Nilosaharan)

since 2008	Professor of African Linguistics (Chair of African Linguistics I, Niger Congo), University of Bayreuth
2003	Habilitation in Bayreuth
2000-2001	Guest Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Lomonossov State University Moscow
1996-1999	Research Fellow at the SFB 389, University of Cologne
1994-1996	Research Fellow at the Institute of African Linguistics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M.
1994	PhD in Bayreuth
1988-1990	Research Fellow at the Institute of African Linguistics, University of Cologne
	Studies in Marburg, Cologne and Bayreuth

since 2009	Gender Representative of BIGSAS
2002-2003	Bi-national research project (DFG) on language contacts (Sahel/Sudan regions)
	Coordination of the MA programme African Language Studies, University of Bayreuth

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