Roland Kiessling
{{short description|German linguist}}
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Roland Kiessling (German: Roland Kießling; born 25 July 1962 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a German linguist and Africanist. Kiessling's research interests include language documentation, phonetics, historical linguistics, Cushitic languages (particularly the South Cushitic languages), Nilotic languages (particularly the Southern Nilotic languages), Niger-Congo languagesRoland Kießling. 2013. On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classification. In Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid (eds.), Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25–30 July 2011, 43-65. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (particularly the Southern Bantoid languages), and !Xoon.Kießling, Roland. 2008. Noun classification in !Xoon. In Ermisch, Sonja (ed.), Khoisan languages and linguistics: proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium, 8–12 January 2006, Riezlern/ Kleinwalsertal, 225-248. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.[https://www.koeppe.de/autor_roland-kiessling Rüdiger Köppe Verlag]
Biography
Kiessling studied African Studies and Phonetics at the University of Hamburg, where he obtained a PhD in 1993 and Habilitation 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 University of Hamburg.[https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/afrika/personen/kiessling.html Roland Kießling]. University of Hamburg.
Kiessling received the Kurt Hartwig Siemers Prize from the Hamburg Scientific Foundation in 1995. From 2001 to 2006, he was a DFG Heisenberg fellow.
Since 1 October 2006 he has been Professor of African studies at the University of Hamburg.
Selected publications
- Eine Grammatik des Burunge (= Afrikanistische Forschungen. Band 13). Research-and-Progress-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, {{ISBN|3-929491-03-6}} (zugleich Dissertation, Hamburg 1994).
- editor, with Paul Berger: Iraqw texts (= Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte. Band 4). Köppe, Köln 1998, {{ISBN|3-927620-34-3}}.
- with Maarten Mous and Martha Qorro: Iraqw-English dictionary. With an English and a thesaurus index texts (= Kuschitische Sprachstudien. Band 18). Köppe, Köln 2002, {{ISBN|3-89645-065-4}}.
- 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, {{ISBN|3-89645-401-3}}.
- Die Rekonstruktion der südkuschitischen Sprachen (West-Rift). Von den systemlinguistischen Manifestationen zum gesellschaftlichen Rahmen des Sprachwandels (= Kuschitische Sprachstudien. Band 19). Köppe, Köln 2002, {{ISBN|3-89645-066-2}} (zugleich Habilitationsschrift, Hamburg 2001).
- with Maarten Mous: The lexical reconstruction of West-Rift Southern Cushitic (= Kuschitische Sprachstudien. Band 21). Köppe, Köln 2003, {{ISBN|3-89645-068-9}}.
- Verbal serialisation in Isu (West-Ring). A Grassfields language of Cameroon (= Kuschitische Sprachstudien. Band 39). Köppe, Köln 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-89645-555-0}}.
References
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External links
- [https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/RolandKie%C3%9Fling Academia.edu] page
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Category:Linguists of Nilotic languages