HU-Berlin

Department of African Studies

Department of Asian and African Studies
Faculty of Arts and Humanities III

 

Staff in Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann

Tom Güldemann

Room : 408

Tel. : +49 30 2093-66072
Fax: +49 30 2093-66087

e-Mail : tom.gueldemann@rz.hu-berlin.de

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Scientific activities

Major research interests

Languages: all families subsumed under "Khoisan", Bantu


Projects

Conferences and workshops

Editorial activities

Recent conference presentations

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Publications

Books and monographs:

Heine, Bernd et al. 1993. Conceptual shift - a lexicon of grammaticalization processes in African languages. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 34/5. Köln: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln.

Güldemann, Tom. 1996. Verbalmorphologie und Nebenprädikationen im Bantu: Eine Studie zur funktional motivierten Genese eines konjugationalen Subsystems. Bochum-Essener Beiträge zur Sprachwandelforschung 27. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer. (= Ph.D. thesis 1995)

Güldemann, Tom. 1997b. Prosodische Markierung als sprachliche Strategie zur Hierarchisierung verknüpfter Prädikationen am Beispiel des Shona. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Languages and Literatures 2. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig. (= M.A. thesis 1993)

Güldemann, Tom. 1998a. San languages for education: a linguistic short survey and proposal on behalf of the Molteno Early Literacy and Language Development (MELLD) Project in Namibia. Okahandja: National Institute of Educational Development, Ministry of Basic Education and Culture.

Güldemann, Tom and Manfred von Roncador (eds.). 2002. Reported discourse: a meeting ground for different linguistic domains. Typological Studies in Language 52. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Güldemann, Tom. 2008b. Quotative indexes in African languages: a synchronic and diachronic survey. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 34. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (= Habilitation thesis 2001)


Güldemann, Tom. in preparation a. Westphal's field notes on N/huki with a linguistic analysis. Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Güldemann, Tom (ed.). in preparation b. Africa. The Field of Linguistics: A Survey of Linguistics Research 1, ed. by Hans Henrich Hock. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Güldemann, Tom, Patrick McConvell and Richard Rhodes (eds.). in Vorbereitung. Hunter-gatherers and linguistic history: a global perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



Articles:

Güldemann, Tom. 1992. Ist Swahili eine monogenetische Einheit? - Betrachtungen aus der Sicht peripherer Varietäten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verbalmorphologie. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 30: 35-62.

Güldemann, Tom. 1997a. Prosodic subordination as a strategy for complex sentence construction in Shona: Bantu moods revisited. In Herbert, Robert K. (ed.), African linguistics at the crossroads: papers from Kwaluseni (1st World Congress of African Linguistics, Swaziland, 18-22, July, 1994). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 75-98.

Güldemann, Tom. 1997c. The Kalahari Basin as an object of areal typology - a first approach. Khoisan Forum, Working Papers 3. Köln: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln. (= Güldemann 1998b)

Güldemann, Tom. 1998b. The Kalahari Basin as an object of areal typology - a first approach. In Schladt, Mathias (ed.), Language, identity, and conceptualization among the Khoisan. Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung 15. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 137-169.

Güldemann, Tom. 1998c. The relation between imperfective and simultaneous taxis in Bantu: late stages of grammaticalization. In Fiedler, Ines, Catherine Griefenow-Mewis and Brigitte Reineke (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen im Brennpunkt der Forschung: Linguistische Beiträge zum 12. Afrikanistentag Berlin, 3.-6. Oktober 1996. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 157-177.

Güldemann, Tom. 1999a. Head-initial meets head-final: nominal suffixes in eastern and southern Bantu from a historical perspective. Studies in African Linguistics 28,1: 49-91.

Güldemann, Tom. 1999b. The genesis of verbal negation in Bantu and its dependency on functional features of clause types. In Hombert, Jean-Marie and Larry M. Hyman (eds.), Bantu historical linguistics: theoretical and empirical perspectives. CSLI Lecture Notes 99. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), 545-587.

Güldemann, Tom. 1999c. Toward a grammaticalization and typological account of the ka-possessive in Zulu. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 20,2: 157-184.

Güldemann, Tom. 2000a. Editor's introduction. In Bleek, Dorothea F. [edited and introduced by Tom Güldemann], The //N !ke or Bushmen of Griqualand West; Notes on the language of the //N !ke or Bushmen of Griqualand West. Khoisan Forum, Working Papers 15. Köln: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, 7-13.

Güldemann, Tom. 2000b. Noun categorization systems in Non-Khoe lineages of Khoisan. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 63: 5-33.

Güldemann, Tom and Rainer Vossen. 2000. Khoisan. In Heine, Bernd and Derek Nurse (eds.), African languages: an introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 99-122.

Güldemann, Tom. 2001. Phonological regularities of consonant systems across Khoisan lineages. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Languages and Literatures 16. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig. (= Güldemann forthcoming o)

Güldemann, Tom. 2002a. Die Entlehnung pronominaler Elemente des Khoekhoe aus dem !Ui-Taa. In Schumann, Theda, Mechthild Reh, Roland Kießling and Ludwig Gerhardt (eds.), Aktuelle Forschungen zu afrikanischen Sprachen: Sprachwissenschaftliche Beiträge zum 14. Afrikanistentag, Hamburg, 11.-14. Oktober 2000. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 43-61.

Güldemann, Tom. 2002b. Using older Khoisan sources: quantifier expressions in Lower Nosop varieties of Tuu. South African Journal of African Languages 22,3: 187-196.

Güldemann, Tom. 2002c. Welche Evidenz gibt es für eine !Ui-Sprache namens !Khuai? Afrika und Übersee 85: 99-109.

Güldemann, Tom. 2002d. When 'say' is not say: the functional versatility of the Bantu quotative marker ti with special reference to Shona. In Güldemann, Tom und Manfred von Roncador (eds.), Reported discourse: a meeting ground for different linguistic domains. Typological Studies in Language 52. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 253-287.

Güldemann, Tom, Manfred von Roncador and Wim van der Wurff. 2002. A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse. In Güldemann, Tom and Manfred von Roncador (eds.), Reported discourse: a meeting ground for different linguistic domains. Typological Studies in Language 52. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 363-415.

Güldemann, Tom. 2003a. Grammaticalization. In Nurse, Derek and Gérard Philippson (eds.), The Bantu languages. Routledge Language Family Series 4. London: Routledge, 182-194.

Güldemann, Tom. 2003b. Khoisan languages. In Frawley, William (ed.), International encyclopedia of linguistics, 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, vol.4: 359-362.

Güldemann, Tom. 2003c. Logophoricity in Africa: an attempt to explain and evaluate the significance of its modern distribution. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 56,4: 366-387.

Güldemann, Tom. 2003d. Present progressive vis-à-vis predication focus in Bantu: a verbal category between semantics and pragmatics. Studies in Language 27,2: 323-360.

Güldemann, Tom. 2004a. Complex pronominals in Tuu and Ju, with special reference to their historical significance. Afrika und Übersee 87: 79-103.

Güldemann, Tom. 2004b. Introduction to "Bushman grammar: a grammatical sketch of the language of the |xam-ka-!k'e" by Dorothea F. Bleek. In Hollmann, Jeremy C. (ed.), Customs and beliefs of the /Xam Bushmen. Johannesburg: Wits University Press with the Ringing Rocks Press, 385-387.

Güldemann, Tom. 2004c. Reconstruction through 'de-construction': the marking of person, gender, and number in the Khoe family and Kwadi. Diachronica 21,2: 251-306.

Güldemann, Tom and Rainer Vossen. 2004. Le Khoisan. In Heine, Bernd and Derek Nurse (eds.), Les langues africaines. Paris: Karthala, 121-148. (= French version of Güldemann and Vossen 2000).

Güldemann, Tom. 2005a. Asyndetic subordination and deverbal depictive expressions in Shona. In Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. and Eva Schultze-Berndt (eds.), Secondary predication and adverbial modification: the typology of depictives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 323-353.

Güldemann, Tom. 2005b. Complex predicates based on generic auxiliaries as an areal feature in Northeast Africa. In Voeltz, F. K. Erhard (ed.), Studies in African linguistic typology. Typological Studies in Language 64. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 131-154.

Güldemann, Tom. 2005c. "Tuu" - a new name for the Southern Khoisan family. In Güldemann, Tom, Studies in Tuu (Southern Khoisan). University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Languages and Literatures 23. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig, 3-10.

Güldemann, Tom. 2005d. Tuu as a language family. In Güldemann, Tom, Studies in Tuu (Southern Khoisan). University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Languages and Literatures 23. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig, 11-30.

Güldemann, Tom. 2006a. Structural isoglosses between Khoekhoe and Tuu: the Cape as a linguistic area. In Matras, Yaron, April McMahon and Nigel Vincent (eds.), Linguistic areas: convergence in historical and typological perspective. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 99-134. PDF

Güldemann, Tom. 2006b. The San languages of southern Namibia: linguistic appraisal with special reference to J. G. Krönlein's N|uusaa data. Anthropological Linguistics 48,4: 369-395.

Güldemann, Tom. 2007a. Clicks, genetics, and "proto-world" from a linguistic perspective. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Languages and Literatures 29. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig.

Güldemann, Tom. 2007b. Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo. In Aboh, Enoch O., Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann (eds.), Focus strategies in African languages: the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic. Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs 191. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 83-111.

Güldemann, Tom. 2008a. A linguist's view: Khoe-Kwadi speakers as the earliest food-producers of southern Africa. In Sadr, Karim and François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar (eds.), Khoekhoe and the earliest herders in southern Africa. Southern African Humanities 20: 93-132.

Güldemann, Tom. 2008b. Greenberg's "case" for Khoisan: the morphological evidence. In Ibriszimow, Dymitr (ed.), Problems of linguistic-historical reconstruction in Africa. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 19. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 123-153.

Güldemann, Tom. 2008c. The Macro-Sudan belt: towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa. In Heine, Bernd and Derek Nurse (eds.), A linguistic geography of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 151-185.

Güldemann, Tom and Mark Stoneking. 2008d. A historical appraisal of clicks: a linguistic and genetic population perspective. Annual Review of Anthropology 37: 93-109.

Sands, Bonny and Tom Güldemann. 2009. What click languages can and can't tell us about language origins. In Botha, Rudie and Chris Knight (eds.), The cradle of language. Studies in the Evolution of Language 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 204-218.

Güldemann, Tom. 2010. The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu family. In Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (eds.), The expression of information structure: a documantation of its diversity across Africa. Typological Studies in Language 91. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 69-93.

Güldemann, Tom and Edward D. Elderkin. 2010. On external genealogical relationships of the Khoe family. In Brenzinger, Matthias and Christa König (eds.), Khoisan languages and linguistics: proceedings of the 1st International Symposium January 4-8, 2003, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal. Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung 24. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 15-52.


Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming a. Speaker-predicating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type. In Alphen, Ingrid van and Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), Quotatives: cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Series.Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming b. Person-gender-number marking from Proto-Khoe-Kwadi to its descendents: a rejoinder with particular reference to language contact. In König, Christa and Rainer Voßen (eds.), Festschrift for Bernd Heine. Routledge African Linguistics Series. London: Routledge. PDF

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming c. Typology. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming d. Phonology: Eastern !Xõo. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming e. Phonology: Other Tuu languages. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming f. Phonology: Kwadi. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming g. Morphology: !Xõo of Lone Tree. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming h. Morphology: |Xam of Strandberg. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming j. Morphology: Kwadi. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming k. Syntax: !Xõo of Lone Tree. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming l. Syntax: |Xam of Strandberg. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming m. Syntax: Kwadi. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming n. Sociolinguistics: South Africa - Khoisan-internal contacts. In Voßen, Rainer (ed.), The Khoisan languages. Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming o. Phonological regularities of consonant systems across Khoisan lineages. In Keuthmann, Klaus, Gabriele Sommer and Rainer Voßen (eds.), Essays in honour of Anthony Traill. Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming p. "Sprachraum" and geography. In Lameli, Alfred, Roland Kehrein and Stefan Rabanus (eds.), The handbook of language mapping. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming q. !Ora. In Bonvini, Emile and Alain Peyraube (eds.), Dictionnaire des langues. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming r. Les langues khoisan. In Bonvini, Emile and Alain Peyraube (eds.), Dictionnaire des langues. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. (= French version of Güldemann 2003b).

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming s. Changing profile when encroaching on hunter-gatherer territory: towards a history of the Khoe-Kwadi family in southern Africa. In Güldemann, Tom, Patrick McConvell and Richard Rhodes (eds.), Hunter-gatherers and linguistic history: a global perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming t. How typology can inform philology: quotative jn in Earlier Egyptian. In Richter, Sebastian and Martin Haspelmath (eds.), Language typology and Egyptian-Coptic linguistics. Typological Studies in Language Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF

Güldemann, Tom. forthcoming u. Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: macro-areal typology and linguistic reconstruction. In Nakagawa, Hirosi, Christa König and Osamu Hieda (eds.), Geographical typology of African languages. Typological Studies in Language Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Güldemann, Tom, René Kriegler and H. Ekkehard Wolff. manuscript. Zur Typologie verbaler Flexionssysteme: Prädikationsfokus als Flexionskategorie in afrikanischen Sprachen. ("2. Kolloquium des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms Sprachtypologie" 1997). Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig.


Güldemann, Tom and Marten Mous. in preparation. Areal and contact linguistics. In Güldemann, Tom (ed.), Africa. The Field of Linguistics: A Survey of Linguistics Research 1, ed. by Hans Henrich Hock. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Good, Jeff and Tom Güldemann. in preparation. Historical linguistics and genealogical classification. In Güldemann, Tom (ed.), Africa. The Field of Linguistics: A Survey of Linguistics Research 1, ed. by Hans Henrich Hock. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.



Other edited works:

Bleek, Dorothea F. (edited by Tom Güldemann). 2000a. Notes on the language of the //ŋ !ke or Bushmen of Griqualand West. Khoisan Forum, Working Papers 15. Köln: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, 17-28.

Bleek, Dorothea F. (edited by Tom Güldemann). 2000b. The //ŋ !ke or Bushmen of Griqualand West. Khoisan Forum, Working Papers 15. Köln: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, 14-16.



Reviews:

Güldemann, Tom. 1994. Review: Susanne Michaelis, Komplexe Syntax im Seychellen-Kreol, Tübingen, Gunter Narr. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 47,4: 373-375.



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Education and professional training
University studies: 1987 - 1993
  • Subjects: African studies, General linguistics, Portuguese at the Universities of Leipzig and Cologne
  • included in 1991 three months in Tanzania: advanced language course in Swahili at the Institute for Swahili and Foreign Languages in Zanzibar and field research
  • Professors: Bork, Brauner, Heine, Legére, Möhlig, Perl, Sasse, Serzisko, Steube, Zybatov
  • M.A. thesis (at the Institute for African Studies/Leipzig University): "Prosodische Markierung als sprachliche Strategie zur Hierarchisierung verknüpfter Prädikationen am Beispiel des Shona" (see Güldemann 1997b)
Graduate research: 1992 - 1993
  • Research in the project "Grammatikalisierung in afrikanischen Sprachen" carried out at the Institute for African Studies/University of Cologne (Prof. Heine)
 1993 - 1995
  • Research for Ph.D. at the Institute for African Studies/University of Cologne
  • included five months field research in Tanzania
  • Doctoral thesis: "Verbalmorphologie und Nebenprädikationen im Bantu: Eine Studie zur funktional motivierten Genese eines konjugationalen Subsystems" (see Güldemann 1996)
Research fellow: 1995 - 1996
  • Research in the project "Areale der Grammatikalisierung" at the Institute for African Studies/University of Cologne (Prof. Heine)
 1996 - 2000
  • Research for "Habilitation" at the Institute for African Studies/Leipzig University
  • included six-months research visit to southern Africa to the Universities of Namibia at Windhoek, of South Africa at Pretoria and of the Witwatersrand at Johannesburg
  • Habilitation thesis: "Quotative constructions in African languages: a synchronic and diachronic survey" (see Güldemann 2008)
 since 01/12/2000
  • Research at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology at Leipzig/ Linguistics section
 since 01/06/2002
  • "Privatdozent" at the Institute for African Studies/Leipzig University
Positions: 01/10/2006 - 30/09/2007
  • Professor for "African linguistics and sociolinguistics" at the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, HU Berlin
  01/10/2007 - 30/01/2009
  • Assistent professor for General Linguistics at the Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Zürich
  01/02/2009 -
  • Professor for "African linguistics and sociolinguistics" at the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, HU BerlinUp


Actualised: 25/02/2011