Curriculum Vitae
Admire Phiri
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Admire Phiri
Citation names
- Phiri, Admire
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 9416-69C3-A181
Education
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2017/01/01 - 2021/12/13
Concluded
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General Linguistics (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Linguistics
Stellenbosch University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, South Africa
"The Verbal and Nominal Morpho-syntax of Tjwao: A Grammaticalisation Approach." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2014/01/01 - 2015/07/14
Concluded
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African Languages and Literature (Master)
Major in Linguistics and Literature
University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
"Tjwao phoneme inventory: A descriptive approach." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/03/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/03/01 - 2026/03/11 | Khointact: Towards a better understanding of contact relations between southern African Khoisan languages of the Kx'a, Tuu
and Khoe-Kwadi families
2022.06259.PTDC
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/05/30 | Tjwao and Ndebele Social Contact, Zimbabwe |
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
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| 2023/11/29 | Tjwao verb phrase syntax. | SAMWOP 11
Great Zimbabwe University. (Masvingo, Zimbabwe)
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| 2022/12/01 | Grammaticalization and Tjwao verbal morphosyntax: A cross-Kalahari Khoe perspective. | SAMWOP 10
North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa)
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| 2022/07/18 | Talking to animals in a moribund language: Pragma-semantics, phonetics, and morphology of conative animal calls in Tjwao |
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
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| 2021/07/01 | Grammaticalisation and Tjwao Nominal Morpho-syntax |
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
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| 2021/06/07 | The Contact of Khoisan Languages with the Bantu Shonic group (S10). |
Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| 2020/09/03 | Grammaticalization in Tjwao from a cross-Kalahari Khoe perspective | |
| 2019/11/11 | The documentation of Tjwao Language. | International Year of Indigenous Languages, CIBIO-inBIO Scientific Conference
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2017/06/28 | The current status of Tjwao and the stage of documentation and revitalization |
University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
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| 2017/03/25 | Nominal marking in Tjwao |
University of Cape Town (Cederberg, South Africa)
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/04/06 - 2024/06/30 | First Semester | Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor) | University of the Free State, South Africa |
| 2023/07/01 - 2023/12/31 | Second semester | (Bachelor) | University of the Free State, South Africa |
| 2016/01/01 - 2017/01/31 | First and Second Semester | (Bachelor) | University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe |
Distinctions
Award
| 2024 | Post-doctoral Researcher |
| 2022 | Post-doctoral Fellowship
University of the Free State, South Africa
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| 2021 | The grammar of human-to-animal interaction: Addressing, naming, and talking about animals in Tjwao
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, United States
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| 2019 | The other grammar of Eastern Kalahari Khoe – the documentation and analysis of interjections, onomatopoeias, and ideophones
in Tjwao.
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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| 2017 | Doctoral Scholarship
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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| 2016 | Fieldwork to study the verbal system and others aspects of Tjwao, a highly endangered Khoesan language of Zimbabwe.
The Endangered Language Fund, United States
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