Sara Petrollino
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. S. Petrollino
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3069
- s.petrollino@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7037-5762
Sara Petrollino is an University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
More information about Sara Petrollino
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PhD candidates
Fields of interest
- Anthropological linguistics
- African linguistics
Research
I am a linguist specialised in anthropological linguistics and African languages. I am fascinated by questions related to linguistic relativity and the role played by language and culture in shaping worldviews and affecting cognition. My research takes place at the intersection of linguistics and anthropology, and as such it is based on traditional ethnographic methods and long-term fieldwork among communities in East Africa. In the last decade I have carried out most of my research among the Hamar pastoralists of South-West Ethiopia, and I have been studying their language and their linguistic and cultural practices.
Grants and awards
- NWO Veni (Cattle talk: the language of colour among East African pastoralists)
- The Sebeok-Love Award for the Best Article in Language Science 2022
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL T&C van Afrika
- Petrollino S. (2023), ‘Father of the spotted cow’: Hamar titles and their connection to cattle appearance. In: Ndlovu S. (Ed.), Personal names and naming from an anthropological-linguistic perspective: De Gruyter Mouton.
- Petrollino S. (2023), Hamar narratives. [dataset].
- Petrollino S. (2023), Chapter 40: Hamar. In: Meyer R., Wakjira B. & Leyew Z. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Ethiopian languages. Oxford Handbooks Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Petrollino S. (2021), The Hamar cattle model: the semantics of appearance in a pastoral linguaculture, Language Sciences 89: 101448.
- Wal G.J. van der, Smits H.J., Petrollino S., Nyst V.A.S. & Kossmann M.G. (Eds.) (2020), Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous. ASC occasional publication no. 41. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL).
- Petrollino S. (2020), Cattle appearance: stimuli and tasks: OSF. [dataset].
- Petrollino S. (2019), Existential predication in Hamar, Nordic Journal of African Studies 28(4): 1-27.
- Petrollino S. (2018), Recent publications in African linguistics, Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 39(1): 121-124.
- Petrollino S. (2018), Between Tone and Stress in Hamar. In: Clem E., Jenks P. & Sande H. (Eds.), Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contemporary African Linguistics. Berlin: Language Science Press.
- Petrollino S. (2016), Between tone and stress in Hamar. 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, March 23-26, 2016. .
- Petrollino S. (10 November 2016), A grammar of Hamar : a South Omotic language of Ethiopia (Dissertatie. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Humanities, Leiden University) Cushitic and Omotic Studies no. 6. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Supervisor(s): Mous M.P.G.M. & Philippson G.
- Manfredi S. & Petrollino S. (2013), Juba Arabic. In: Michaelis S., Maurer P., Haspelmath M. & Huber M. (Eds.), The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Cupi L., Petrollino S., Savá G. & Tosco M. (2012), Preliminary notes on the Hamar verb. In: Marie-Claude S.S. & Vanhove M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic Languages. Köln:: Rüdiger Köppe. 181-195.
- Manfredi S. & Petrollino S. (2012), Juba Arabic language structure dataset. In: Michaelis S., Maurer P., Haspelmath M. & Huber M. (Eds.), Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Petrollino S. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2010), Recollecting Words and Expressions in Aasá, a Dead Language in Tanzania, Anthropological Linguistics 52(2): 206-216.