
Felix Ameka
Professor by Special Appointment Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the world
- Name
- Prof.dr. F.K. Ameka
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2243
- f.k.ameka@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9442-6675
Felix Ameka is Professor by Special Appointment and Senior University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.
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Fields of interest
Descriptive and documentary linguistics
Semantics and Pragmatics
Linguistic typology
Anthropological linguistics
Ethnography of communication
Language contact and areal linguistics
West African languages
Research
My primary research interests are the quest for the meaning of linguistic signs and exploring their use in social interaction. I am also interested in how and why languages vary and chagne over time and space, also in the reflexice relation between language, culture and cognition. I am concerned with questions of how cultural factors and cognitive processes as well as contact shape meanings and structures of languages. I work with primary data collected using ethnographic and experimental methods. My empirical specialisation is West African languages, mainly Kwa languages and other languages of wider communication, namely, Hausa and Fulfulde. My focus is on Gbe, i.e. Ewe, Gen Aja and Fon; Ghana-Togo-Mountain languages, especially Likpe; Guang and Akanic languages.
Teaching activities
Courses I teach include: Communication in Africa
Language Use and Diversity
Words and Meaning
Anthropological Linguistics
Language, Culture and Cognition
Curriculum vitae
1980 BA (Linguistics Major), Honours 1, University of Ghana, Legon
1986 MA (Linguistics), Australian National University, Canberra
1991 Ph.D (Linguistics), Australian National University, Canberra
Professor by Special Appointment Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the world
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL T&C van Afrika
Senior University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL T&C van Afrika
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