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Nancy C. Kula

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Nancy C. Kula (born 1971, Ndola, Zambia) is a linguist with a specialisation in the phonology and morphology of Bantu languages. She also works on language policy and education and other issues related to multilingualism in the African context. Since 2024 she is Chair Professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University. [1]

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Academic life and research

Nancy Kula earned her PhD in 2002 at Leiden University, with a dissertation entitled, The phonology of verbal derivation in Bemba. [2] (She is a native speaker of Copperbelt Bemba.) Following her PhD, she held post-doc positions, funded by a VENI grant (NWO), [3] at Leiden University (LUCL) and SOAS before joining the faculty of the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex in 2007. She became a professor of linguistics at Essex in 2016 and also held a number of senior leadership roles while there. [4] She joined the faculty of Leiden University in 2024.

Since her PhD, she has continued to research the phonology and morphology of Bemba and other Bantu languages. [5] She has made important contributions to morpho-syntactic microvariation typology (Marten et al. 2007; Marten & Kula 2012), to the study of tone and the phrasal conditioning of tone in Bemba (Bickmore & Kula 2013; Kula & Bickmore 2015) and to tone-intonation interaction in Bemba (Kula & Hamann 2017), among other topics.

Besides this more theoretically oriented work, she has also (co-)led research projects focusing on multilingualism and language policy in Africa. In 2023 - 2024 she received funding from the British Academy for a grant entitled, Supporting Multilingualism in Practice: Resource co-creation in primary classrooms in Tanzania. [6] This grant built on an earlier British Academy funded project entitled, Bringing the Outside In. [7] [8] She is currently (2023–2028) collaborating on an ESRC project on Multilingualism and Conflict. [9]

Honors and distinctions

Nancy Kula is a co-editor of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (JALL). [10] She is on the editorial board of the Language Science Press series, Contemporary African Linguistics. [11]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Nancy Kula". Leiden University. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  2. ↑ The phonology of verbal derivation in Bemba (Thesis).
  3. ↑ "The Phrasal Phonology of Bantu Languages". Project database, NWO. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "Wishing Professor Nancy Kula the very best of luck | Blog | University of Essex". www.essex.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  5. ↑ "Nancy C Kula". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  6. ↑ "The British Academy awards funding to maximise impact of cutting-edge research in developing countries". The British Academy. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  7. ↑ "Bringing the Outside In: Merging Local Language and Literacy Practices to Enhance Classroom Learning and Achievement". The British Academy. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  8. ↑ "When countries promote and teach one language above many others | University of Essex". www.essex.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  9. ↑ "Major grant to focus on impact of shared language on conflict | University of Essex". www.essex.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  10. ↑ "Journal of African Languages and Linguistics". De Gruyter. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  11. ↑ "Contemporary African Linguistics | Language Science Press". langsci-press.org. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
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