Roland Kiessling (German: Roland Kießling; born 25 July 1962 in

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

, West Germany) is a German linguist and Africanist. Kiessling's research interests include language documentation, phonetics, historical linguistics,

Cushitic languages The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and the Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As ...

(particularly the South Cushitic languages), Nilotic languages (particularly the Southern Nilotic languages), Niger-Congo languages (particularly the

Southern Bantoid languages Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family. It consists of the Bantu languages along with several small branches and isolates of eastern Nigeria and west-central Cameroon (though the affiliation of some branch ...

), and !Xoon.

Biography

Kiessling studied African Studies and Phonetics at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

, where he obtained a PhD in 1993 and

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in 2000. From 1990 to 1993, he was a research associate in a DFG project led by Ludwig Gerhardt, where he worked on Iraqw texts. Afterwards, he was a research assistant from 1993 to 1999 at the Institute for African Studies and Ethiopian Studies at the

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. Kiessling received the Kurt Hartwig Siemers Prize from the

Hamburg Scientific Foundation The Hamburg Scientific Foundation (german: Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung) was founded in Hamburg in 1907 to support academic research and its dissemination in that city. Werner von Melle promoted the project from early 1907, raising 3.8 ...

in 1995. From 2001 to 2006, he was a DFG Heisenberg fellow. Since 1 October 2006 he is Professor of African studies at the

Selected publications

* ''Eine Grammatik des Burunge'' (= ''Afrikanistische Forschungen.'' Band 13). Research-and-Progress-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, (zugleich Dissertation, Hamburg 1994). * editor, with Paul Berger: ''Iraqw texts'' (= ''Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte.'' Band 4). Köppe, Köln 1998, . * with

Maarten Mous Maarten (IPA: �maːrtə(n) is a Dutch language male given name. It is a cognate to and the standardized Dutch form of Martin (name), Martin, as in for example Sint Maarten (named after Martin of Tours). People with the name * Geert-Maarten ...

and

Martha Qorro Martha A. S. Qorro (pronunciation: /KORroʊ/, KORro) is a linguist and an Associate Professor at the Centre for Communication Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam, known for her research into the use of the Kiswahili language as preferable ...

: ''Iraqw-English dictionary. With an English and a thesaurus index texts'' (= ''Kuschitische Sprachstudien.'' Band 18). Köppe, Köln 2002, . * editor, with Theda Schumann, Mechthild Reh and Ludwig Gerhardt: ''Aktuelle Forschungen zu afrikanischen Sprachen. Sprachwissenschaftliche Beiträge zum 14. Afrikanistentag, Hamburg, 11. – 14. Oktober 2000''. Köppe, Köln 2002, . * ''Die Rekonstruktion der südkuschitischen Sprachen (West-Rift). Von den systemlinguistischen Manifestationen zum gesellschaftlichen Rahmen des Sprachwandels'' (= ''Kuschitische Sprachstudien.'' Band 19). Köppe, Köln 2002, (zugleich Habilitationsschrift, Hamburg 2001). * with Maarten Mous: ''The lexical reconstruction of West-Rift Southern Cushitic'' (= ''Kuschitische Sprachstudien.'' Band 21). Köppe, Köln 2003, . * ''Verbal serialisation in Isu (West-Ring). A Grassfields language of Cameroon'' (= ''Kuschitische Sprachstudien.'' Band 39). Köppe, Köln 2011, .

References

External links

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