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Biography
Biography
I am a documentary and a Bantu linguist with a focus of verbal morphology. My research primarily concerns Bantu languages spoken in Tanzania, particularly Sukuma, Nyamwezi, and Kimbu. I am currently a doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. My doctoral research, entitled Anticausativization in Sukuma, Nyamwezi and Kimbu, investigates the morphological, syntactic, and semantic strategies through which anticausative constructions are formed in these three related Bantu languages. My work examines the relationship between verbal morphology and argument structure. Alongside my research activities, I work as a Swahili language teacher at the University of Gothenburg.
Contacts
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Email Address
augustino.kagwema@muce.ac.tz
Research Interest
Research Interest
I am interested in language documentation and description of Bantu languages, and intercultural communication
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Projects
Projects
My previous research has addressed the ethnography of Nyamwezi kinship terms, as well as the documentation of Kimbu, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. My research experience includes participation in collaborative projects on language education and leadership in language documentation.
In 2019/2020, I served as Principal Investigator of the project Kikimbu: Documenting Nomadism in Central Tanzania, funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) at SOAS University of London. The project focused on documenting linguistic and cultural knowledge associated with nomadism in central Tanzania.
In 2020/2021, I served as a Co-researcher in the University of Dar es Salaam-funded project Enhancement of Communicative Language Teaching Approach among Primary School Teachers in Teaching English Subject in Tanzania: A Case Study of Iringa Rural District. This project addressed language pedagogy and the enhancement of communicative language teaching among primary school teachers.
In 2021/2022, I participated as a Co-researcher in another University of Dar es Salaam-funded project, Enhancing Teaching and Learning of Swahili as a Foreign Language through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Platform. This research explored the use of open and distance learning approaches in teaching and learning Swahili as a foreign language.
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