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'''Felix Ameka''' (1957) is a linguist working on the intersection of grammar, meaning and culture. His empirical specialisation is on West-African languages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Felix Ameka — Google Scholar Citations |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jpN2GQUAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2020-06-09 |website=Google Scholar}}</ref> He is currently professor of Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Vitality at [[Leiden University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2021/02/felix-ameka-multilingualism-is-the-answer-to-many-problems |title=Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’|website=[[Leiden University]]|accessdate=3 March 2021}}</ref> and teaches in the departments of Linguistics, African Languages and cultures, and African Studies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/felix-ameka|title=Felix Ameka|website=[[Leiden University]]|accessdate=15 October 2022}}</ref> In recognition of his pioneering work on cross-cultural semantics and his long-standing research ties with Australian universities, he was elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of Humanities in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellows: Felix Ameka |url=https://www.humanities.org.au/fellows/fellows/?find_contact_id=25918 |website=Humanities Australia}}</ref>
'''Felix Ameka''' (born 1957) is a linguist working on the intersection of grammar, meaning and culture. His empirical specialisation is on West-African languages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Felix Ameka — Google Scholar Citations |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jpN2GQUAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2020-06-09 |website=Google Scholar}}</ref> He is currently professor of Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Vitality at [[Leiden University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2021/02/felix-ameka-multilingualism-is-the-answer-to-many-problems |title=Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’|website=[[Leiden University]]|accessdate=3 March 2021}}</ref> and teaches in the departments of Linguistics, African Languages and cultures, and African Studies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/felix-ameka|title=Felix Ameka|website=[[Leiden University]]|accessdate=15 October 2022}}</ref> In recognition of his pioneering work on cross-cultural semantics and his long-standing research ties with Australian universities, he was elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of Humanities in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellows: Felix Ameka |url=https://www.humanities.org.au/fellows/fellows/?find_contact_id=25918 |website=Humanities Australia}}</ref>


After undergraduate training at the [[University of Ghana, Legon]], Ameka received his PhD in 1991 from [[Australian National University]] for a dissertation on the semantic, functional, and discourse-pragmatic aspects of the grammar of [[Ewe language|Ewe]]. Ameka has made seminal contributions to the cross-linguistic study of [[interjections]], editing a highly influential special issue on 'the universal yet neglected part of speech'.<ref>{{Cite journal| issn = 0378-2166| volume = 18| issue = 2–3| pages = 101–118| last = Ameka| first = Felix K.| title = Interjections: The Universal Yet Neglected Part of Speech| journal = Journal of Pragmatics| date = 1992| doi = 10.1016/0378-2166(92)90048-G| hdl = 11858/00-001M-0000-0011-5356-1| hdl-access = free}}</ref> Ameka has pioneered research on the interaction of grammar, culture, and social structure, using the framework of [[Natural semantic metalanguage|Natural Semantic Metalanguage]] to elucidate cultural scripts and interactional resources.<ref>{{Cite book |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-203-86965-9 |pages=203–215 |editor=Martin J. Ball |last1=Connell |first1=Bruce |last2=Zeitlyn |first2=David |title=Sociolinguistics Around the World |chapter=Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central Africa |location=Hoboken |access-date=2012-03-30 |date=2009 |chapter-url=http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=472493 |chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> A long-term research associate at the [[List of Max Planck Institutes|Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics]], Ameka has led a large-scale comparative project on the semantics of locative predicates<ref>{{Cite journal| volume = 45| issue = 5part6| pages = 847–871| last1 = Ameka| first1 = Felix K.| last2 = Levinson| first2 = Stephen C.| title = Introduction: The typology and semantics of locative predicates: posturals, positionals, and other beasts| journal = Linguistics| date = 2007| doi = 10.1515/LING.2007.025| hdl = 11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1BF8-C| hdl-access = free}}</ref> and contributed to cross-linguistic work on the expression of motion events. With Alan Dench and Nick Evans, he co-edited an influential collection on the art of grammar writing.<ref>{{Cite book |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |editor=Felix K. Ameka |editor2=Alan Dench |editor3=Nicholas Evans |title=Catching Language: the standing challenge of grammar writing |location=Berlin |date=2006}}</ref>
After undergraduate training at the [[University of Ghana, Legon]], Ameka received his PhD in 1991 from [[Australian National University]] for a dissertation on the semantic, functional, and discourse-pragmatic aspects of the grammar of [[Ewe language|Ewe]]. Ameka has made seminal contributions to the cross-linguistic study of [[interjections]], editing a highly influential special issue on 'the universal yet neglected part of speech'.<ref>{{Cite journal| issn = 0378-2166| volume = 18| issue = 2–3| pages = 101–118| last = Ameka| first = Felix K.| title = Interjections: The Universal Yet Neglected Part of Speech| journal = Journal of Pragmatics| date = 1992| doi = 10.1016/0378-2166(92)90048-G| hdl = 11858/00-001M-0000-0011-5356-1| hdl-access = free}}</ref> Ameka has pioneered research on the interaction of grammar, culture, and social structure, using the framework of [[Natural semantic metalanguage|Natural Semantic Metalanguage]] to elucidate cultural scripts and interactional resources.<ref>{{Cite book |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-203-86965-9 |pages=203–215 |editor=Martin J. Ball |last1=Connell |first1=Bruce |last2=Zeitlyn |first2=David |title=Sociolinguistics Around the World |chapter=Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central Africa |location=Hoboken |access-date=2012-03-30 |date=2009 |chapter-url=http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=472493 |chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> A long-term research associate at the [[List of Max Planck Institutes|Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics]], Ameka has led a large-scale comparative project on the semantics of locative predicates<ref>{{Cite journal| volume = 45| issue = 5part6| pages = 847–871| last1 = Ameka| first1 = Felix K.| last2 = Levinson| first2 = Stephen C.| title = Introduction: The typology and semantics of locative predicates: posturals, positionals, and other beasts| journal = Linguistics| date = 2007| doi = 10.1515/LING.2007.025| hdl = 11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1BF8-C| hdl-access = free}}</ref> and contributed to cross-linguistic work on the expression of motion events. With Alan Dench and Nick Evans, he co-edited an influential collection on the art of grammar writing.<ref>{{Cite book |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |editor=Felix K. Ameka |editor2=Alan Dench |editor3=Nicholas Evans |title=Catching Language: the standing challenge of grammar writing |location=Berlin |date=2006}}</ref>


Ameka is editor of the ''Journal of African Languages and Linguistics'' together with [[Azeb Amha]]. Since 2015, Ameka is President of the World Congress of African Linguistics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Congress of African Linguistics |url=http://wocal.net/ |accessdate=15 October 2022 |website=wocal.}}</ref>
Ameka is editor of the ''Journal of African Languages and Linguistics'' together with [[Azeb Amha]]. Since 2015, Ameka is President of the World Congress of African Linguistics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Congress of African Linguistics |url=http://wocal.net/ |accessdate=15 October 2022 |website=wocal.}}</ref>

In 2021, he was elected member of the [[Academia Europaea]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Felix Ameka|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Ameka_Felix|work=Member|publisher=Academia Europaea|access-date=2024-07-15}}</ref>


==Key publications==
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Revision as of 17:53, 15 July 2024

Felix K. Ameka
Ameka (2022)
Born1957
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materAustralian National University
Academic work
InstitutionsLeiden University
Main interestslinguistic typology, anthropological linguistics, pragmatics

Felix Ameka (born 1957) is a linguist working on the intersection of grammar, meaning and culture. His empirical specialisation is on West-African languages.[1] He is currently professor of Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Vitality at Leiden University[2] and teaches in the departments of Linguistics, African Languages and cultures, and African Studies.[3] In recognition of his pioneering work on cross-cultural semantics and his long-standing research ties with Australian universities, he was elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of Humanities in 2019.[4]

After undergraduate training at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ameka received his PhD in 1991 from Australian National University for a dissertation on the semantic, functional, and discourse-pragmatic aspects of the grammar of Ewe. Ameka has made seminal contributions to the cross-linguistic study of interjections, editing a highly influential special issue on 'the universal yet neglected part of speech'.[5] Ameka has pioneered research on the interaction of grammar, culture, and social structure, using the framework of Natural Semantic Metalanguage to elucidate cultural scripts and interactional resources.[6] A long-term research associate at the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Ameka has led a large-scale comparative project on the semantics of locative predicates[7] and contributed to cross-linguistic work on the expression of motion events. With Alan Dench and Nick Evans, he co-edited an influential collection on the art of grammar writing.[8]

Ameka is editor of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics together with Azeb Amha. Since 2015, Ameka is President of the World Congress of African Linguistics.[9]

In 2021, he was elected member of the Academia Europaea.[10]

Key publications

  • Ameka, Felix K. 1991. Ewe. Its Grammatical Constructions and Illucutionary Devices. PhD dissertation, Australian National University.
  • Ameka, Felix K. 1992. 'Interjections. The Universal Yet Neglected Part of Speech.' Journal of Pragmatics 18 (2–3): 101–18.
  • Ameka, Felix K., Alan Dench, and Nicholas Evans, eds. 2006. Catching Language. The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Ameka, Felix K., and Stephen C. Levinson. 2007. 'Introduction: The Typology and Semantics of Locative Predicates: Posturals, Positionals, and Other Beasts.' Linguistics 45 (5part6): 847–871.
  • Ameka, Felix K., and Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, eds. 2008. Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

References

  1. ^ "Felix Ameka — Google Scholar Citations". Google Scholar. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Felix Ameka: 'Multilingualism is the answer to many problems'". Leiden University. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Felix Ameka". Leiden University. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Fellows: Felix Ameka". Humanities Australia.
  5. ^ Ameka, Felix K. (1992). "Interjections: The Universal Yet Neglected Part of Speech". Journal of Pragmatics. 18 (2–3): 101–118. doi:10.1016/0378-2166(92)90048-G. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0011-5356-1. ISSN 0378-2166.
  6. ^ Connell, Bruce; Zeitlyn, David (2009). "Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central Africa". In Martin J. Ball (ed.). Sociolinguistics Around the World. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis. pp. 203–215. ISBN 978-0-203-86965-9. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  7. ^ Ameka, Felix K.; Levinson, Stephen C. (2007). "Introduction: The typology and semantics of locative predicates: posturals, positionals, and other beasts". Linguistics. 45 (5part6): 847–871. doi:10.1515/LING.2007.025. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1BF8-C.
  8. ^ Felix K. Ameka; Alan Dench; Nicholas Evans, eds. (2006). Catching Language: the standing challenge of grammar writing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  9. ^ "World Congress of African Linguistics". wocal. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Felix Ameka". Member. Academia Europaea. Retrieved 15 July 2024.

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