The Ghanaian linguistics nexus

Christopher R. Green is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University. He is a phonologist whose research focuses primarily on prosody, including metrical structure, tone, and prominence, broadly construed. He has conducted fieldwork in Mali and Kenya, as well as within diaspora populations of African language speakers in the US and Europe. He has written a reference grammar of Somali, Somali Grammar (2021), and is part of a team of linguists documenting and exploring the phonology-syntax interface in the Luyia languages of Western Kenya. His current project is aimed at uncovering details of the Jarawan languages of Nigeria, which are almost entirely undescribed.

Samson Lotven is Senior Associate Director of Student Success and Affiliate Faculty in African Studies at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is a field linguist who values collaborative research, mentorship, and community building in language work. His research on West African and Southeast Asian languages centers around the tone, morphology, and diachronic phonology.