Lutz Marten (b. 1967) is a German linguist and Africanist. He is currently professor of general and African

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

SOAS University of London The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area ...

. Between 2020 and 2024, he was the editor of the Transactions of the Philological Society. As of June 2024, he serves as the president of the

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Academic career

After studying English language and literature, philosophy and African studies at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...

, Marten joined

SOAS The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area ...

for a Masters programme in linguistics in 1993, where, in 1995, he subsequently began his doctoral studies under the supervision of

Ruth Kempson Ruth Margaret Kempson, FBA (born 26 June 1944) is a British linguist. She is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at King's College, London. In 1977, Kempson published ''Semantic Theory'', which discusses the concept of entailment in linguistics ...

. In 1999, he completed his thesis entitled ''Syntactic and Semantic Underspecification in the Verb Phrase''.

Research

Between 2014 and 2018, Marten was the principal investigator of the research project ''Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Typology, contact and change'', which was funded by the

Leverhulme Trust The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to cover ...

. He is also involved in the development of the '' Dynamic Syntax'' framework project, which is supported by grants from the

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, the Leverhulme Trust and AHRC.

Selected publications

* * * * Marten, Lutz, Nancy C. Kula & N. Thwala. 2007. Parameters of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu. ''Transactions of the Philological Society'' 105: 253-338. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968X.2007.00190.x *

References

External links

Institutional website
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