Anne Storch (born 16 September 1968 in

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) is a German linguist and professor of African studies at the

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Career

Storch studied African linguistics, ethnology, and history at

. From 1995 to 1999, she worked as a researcher at the University of Frankfurt. As a doctoral student, she documented the

Hõne language Hõne is a Jukunoid language spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria. Speakers of the two dialects, Pindiga and Gwana, can only understand each other with difficulty. It belongs to the Jukun Wapan (Kororofa) language cluster. Distribut ...

during several research trips to Nigeria. In 1999, she completed her PhD in African linguistics. From 2000 to 2004, she held a junior professorship position at the Institute for African Linguistics at the University of Frankfurt. Since 2004, she has been a full professor and member of the board at the Institute for African Studies at the

. In addition to Nigeria, Anne Storch has performed linguistic fieldwork in Sudan and Uganda. From 2006 to 2009, she was chair of the German African Studies Association. From 2014 to 2016, she was also President of the International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. In 2017, she was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the

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. In 2018, Storch was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Research interests

Anne Storch's work focuses on Benue-Congo (especially Jukun), Atlantic, West Nilotic, comparative linguistics, typology, and sociolinguistics. Recently, for example, she has also studied language acquisition and use among African migrants working as street artists and other tourism-related occupations in the

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Selected publications

* ''Die Anlautpermutation in den westatlantischen Sprachen.'' Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, Sondernummer 2, 1995, * ''Das Hone und seine Stellung im Zentral-Jukunoid.'' (Dissertation), Köppe, Köln 1999, * Forthcoming. ''Tourism and Discourses on Ruination'' (with Angelika Mietzner) * ''Magic and Gender (with Sabine Dinslage).'' Köppe, Köln 2000, * ''Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache'' (with

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, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig). Köppe, Köln 2004, * ''The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic.'' Köppe, Köln 2005, *''Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa.''

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, New York 2011, * ''Repertoires and Choices in African Languages.'' (with Friederike Lüpke)

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, Berlin 2013, * ''A Grammar of Luwo. An Anthropological Approach. (Culture and Language Use Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)'' John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam 2014,

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Storch, Anne Living people 1968 births Linguists of Atlantic–Congo languages Linguists of Nilotic languages Academic staff of the University of Cologne People from Frankfurt