Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 7: Comparative Northern East Sudanic Linguistics
- Edited by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Published on March 23, 2021 by punctum books
- Pages
- 314 pages
- Languages
- English
- Dimensions
- 6.14⤫9.21 in.
- ISBN (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-1-953035-39-4 (Paperback)
- ISBN (PDF)
- ISBN: 978-1-953035-40-0 (PDF)
- LCCN
- LCCN: 2021933400
- BISAC subject codes
- BISAC: LAN009000
- Thema subject codes
- THEMA: 2HNR, CFF
Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and the critical and theoretical approaches of postcolonial and African studies. Dotawo gives a common home to the past, present, and future of one of the richest areas of research in African studies. It offers a crossroads where papyrus can meet the internet, scribes meet critical thinkers, and the promises of growing nations meet the accomplishments of older kingdoms.
The seventh issue of Dotawo is dedicated to Comparative Northern East Sudanic (NES) linguistics, offering new insights into the historical connections between Nubian languages and other members of the NES family such as Nyimang, Tama, Nara, and Meroitic. A special focus is placed on comparative morphology.
Biographies
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei(opens in new tab) received a PhD in Media & Communications from the European Graduate School and another PhD in Modern Thought from the University of Aberdeen. He is a philologist and the co-director of punctum books(opens in new tab). He is also a specialist in Old Nubian and co-editor-in-chief of Dotawo(opens in new tab). Monographs include A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian(opens in new tab) (Peeters, 2021) and Cross-Examinations(opens in new tab) (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015). His three-volume work Lapidari(opens in new tab) (punctum, 2015)** provides the first complete overview of socialist monumentality in Albania. As a translator, Van Gerven Oei works mostly with anonymous Makuritan Nubian scribes and contemporary authors such as Jean Daive, Hervé Guibert, Werner Hamacher, Dick Raaijmakers, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg. His scholarly work has appeared in Afterall, Glossa, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, postmedieval, and Theory & Event, among other venues.
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Genres
- Languages+Translations
Keywords
- comparative linguistics
- historical linguistics
- Meroitic
- Nilo-Saharan
- Northern East Sudanic
- Nubia
- Sudan