Prof. Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimow
African Linguistics
Education
- 1975 – 1981: Magister degree in Arabic Studies and African Studies, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrzej Czapkiewicz, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Academic Degrees
- Doctorate in African Studies; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrej Czapkiewicz; assessors: Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Stanislaw Pilaszewicz, University of Warsaw
Professional Background
| Since 10/1999 | Chair of African Studies II, University of Bayreuth |
| 6/1995 – 9/1999 | Research Fellow and Lecturer for African Languages, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. |
| 4/1995 – 6/1995 | Research associate (BAT IIa) for the Professor of African Languages, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
| 1/1994 – 3/1995 | Research associate (BAT IIa) in Collaborative Research Centre 268 "Cultural development and language history in the West African savannas", Frankfurt am Main |
| 3/1990 – 12/1993 | Research associate (BAT IIa/2) for the Professor of African Languages, J.W. Goethe – Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
| 10/1986 – 2/1990 | Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Hamito-Semitic Languages), Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland |
Other
- Co-editor of the series Chadic Linguistics – Linguistique Tschadique – Tschadistik, Köppe Verlag
| 10/2011 – 9/2013 and since 10/2015 | Senator at the University of Bayreuth |
| Since 2009 | Chairman of BIGSAS (Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies), funded by the Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments |
| 2007 – 2008 | Managing Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Bayreuth |
| 2006 – 2007 | Deputy chairman of SFB/FK 560 "Local action in Africa in the context of global influences" |
| 2004 – 2005 | Dean of the Faculty of Languages & Literature, University of Bayreuth |
| 2002 | Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Languages & Literature, University of Bayreuth |
| 2002 – 2008 | Member of the Board of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) |
| 2 – 3/2001 | Visiting professor at the Nice Sophia Antipolis University |
| 2001 – 2007 | “Project coordinator (together with Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Schmid) for sub-project B6 ”Contrastive Cognitive Semantics – Conceptual structures of everyday lexemes in regional Nigerian Languages and Nigerian English”, part of collaborative research centre 560 |
| Seit 1999 | Vice President of the Association Méga-Tschad, Paris |
| 1997 – 2000 | Project coordinator (together with Prof. Dr. Herrmann Jungraithmayr) of subproject B6 of SFB 286 "Cultural development and language history in the West African savannas" |
African Linguistics
Regional Focus:
- Nigeria
- Libya
Research Topics:
- Afro-Asiatic
- comparative, historical linguistics
- cognitive semantics
- linguistic geography
- ethnolinguistics
African Linguistics
Selected publications
2021
Études berbères X : Derniers développements en études linguistiques berbères : Actes du "10. B ...
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Winkelmann, Kerstin; Voßen, Rainer; Stroomer, Harry
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2021. - 291 page . - (Berber Studies; 55)
2019
Études berbères VII : Essais sur la sémantique en berbère et autres articles ; Actes du "7. Bay ...
publ: Voßen, Rainer; Winkelmann, Kerstin; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Stroomer, Harry
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2019. - 231 page . - (Berber Studies; 54)
2018
Bole Language and Documentation Unit : BOLDU ; Reports I & II in one volume. 2nd, revised editi ...
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2018. - 137 + 229 page . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 38)
Etudes berbères VIII : Essais sur la linguistique historique berbère et autres articles
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Winkelmann, Kerstin; Vossen, Rainer; Stroomer, Harry
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2018. - 249 page . - (Berber Studies; 51)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Tela Baba, Ahmad; Zulyadaini, Balarabe
Friendship requires visits : Hausa zumunci from a cognitive semantic point of view
Linguistics across Africa : Festschrift for Rainer Vossen
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2018. - page 161-167
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Zulyadaini, Balarabe
Friendship, hatred and joking relations : ‘Brothers’ and ‘sisters’ in Hausa from a cognitive se ...
in Mosaïques : Revue du Département de Langue Française et Littératures d'Expression Française de l'Ecole ; Hors-Série volume 6 (2018) . - page 65-73
Topics in Chadic Linguistics IX : Papers from the 8th Biennial International Colloquium on the ...
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2018. - 84 page . - (Chadic Linguistics; 10)
2014
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Zulyadaini, Balarabe
"Fathers" and "mothers" in Hausa from a cognitive semantic point of view
Hausa and Chadic studies : in honour of Professor Stanisław Piłaszewicz
Warschau : ELIPSA, 2014. - page 152-161
2013
Waziri, Ibrahim M.; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
The Bole Fika Political Institution and Its Structure : A Study of the Traditional Titles (Nort ...
in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft volume 163 (2013) issue 1. - page 11-42
Waziri, Ibrahim M.; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Political Centralization at the Centre and Periphery : A Hierarchical Comparison of Borno and B ...
Kanem-Borno : A thousand Years of Heritage
Ibadan : Kraft Books Ltd., 2013. - page 358-391
2012
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Kleine Fächer in interdisziplinären Forschungsverbünden : der Afrikaschwerpunkt der Universität ...
Abschlussbericht des Projekts Kartierung der sog. Kleinen Fächer
Potsdam , 2012. - page 209-212
https://www.kleinefaecher.de/files/2013/06/KleineF ...
Études berbères VI : essais sur la syntaxe et autres articles ; actes
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Voßen, Rainer; Stroomer, Harry
Köln : Köppe, 2012. - 289 page . - (Berber Studies; 35)
2011
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Zulyadaini, Balarabe
Fighting friends with the scent of a bride : Wives, "family" and "relatives" in Hausa from a co ...
Topics in Chadic linguistics VI : papers
Köln : Köppe, 2011. - page 101-107 . - (Chadic Linguistics; 7)
2010
Études berbères V : essais sur des variations dialectales et autres articles ; actes
publ: Stroomer, Harry; Kossmann, Maarten; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Voßen, Rainer
Köln : Köppe, 2010. - 212 page . - (Berber Studies; 28)
2009
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Porkhomovsky, Victor; Sheshin, Valery
AAKTS Database and KinShIP Computer Programme for Processing Afroasiatic Kinship Terms and Syst ...
Topics in Chadic linguistics V : papers
Köln : Köppe, 2009. - page 87-93 . - (Chadic Linguistics; 6)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Tchokothe, Rémi Armand
Diffusion spatiale des mots et contacts entre locuteurs à l’ouest du lac Tchad
Migrations et Mobilité dans le Bassin du Lac Tchad
Marseille : IRD Éditions, 2009. - page 627-638
http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins ...
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Zulyadaini, Balarabe
I think what you think : An Evaluation of L1 and L2 Hausa Cognitive Structures
Topics in Chadic linguistics V : papers
Köln : Köppe, 2009. - page 95-103 . - (Chadic Linguistics; 6)
Études berbères IV : essais lexicologiques et lexicographiques et autres articles ; actes
publ: Voßen, Rainer; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Stroomer, Harry
Köln : Köppe, 2009. - 247 page . - (Berber Studies; 25)
2008
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Porkhomovsky, Victor
Термины родства в семито-хамитских (афразийских) языках : современное состояние и перспективы п ...
Основы африканского языкознания. Лексические подсистемы. Словообразование =
Osnovy afrikanskogo jazykoznanija : leksičeskie podsistemy, slovoobrazovanie
Moskau : Akademija, 2008. - page 138-167
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Afro-Asiatic
New Encyclopedia of Africa. Band 3
Detroit : Scribner, 2008. - page 222-224
Schmid, Hans-Jörg; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Kopatsch, Karina; Gottschligg, Peter
Conceptual Blending in Language, Cognition, and Culture : Towards a Methodology for the Linguis ...
Unpacking the new : critical perspectives on cultural syncretization in Africa and beyond
Berlin : LIT, 2008 (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 36)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Zulyadaini, Balarabe
Kolanut for happiness : "food" and "foodstuff" from a cognitive semantic point of view
in Afrika und Übersee volume 88 (2008) issue 1/2. - page 125-155
Problems of linguistic historical reconstruction in Africa
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Köln : Köppe, 2008. - 226 page . - (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika; 19)
2006
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
On the Verb in Ngamo
Topics in Chadic Linguistics II : papers
Köln : Köppe, 2006. - page 35-47 . - (Chadic Linguistics; 3)
Topics in Chadic linguistics II : papers
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Köln : Köppe, 2006. - 154 page . - (Chadic Linguistics; 3)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Porkhomovsky, Victor
Towards a typology of kinship terms and systems in Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) : AAKTS III. T ...
Études berbères III : le nom, le pronom et autres articles ; Actes
Köln : Köppe, 2006. - page 117-130 . - (Berber Studies; 14)
Études berbères III : le nom, le pronom et autres articles ; Actes
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Voßen, Rainer; Stroomer, Harry
Köln : Köppe, 2006. - 286 page . - (Berber Studies; 14)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Zulyadaini, Balarabe
"… who in this land is the fairest of all?" : Make-up and good appearance in Hausa ; a cognitiv ...
Zwischen Bantu und Burkina : Festschrift für Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Geburtstag
Köln : Köppe, 2006. - page 95-110
Zwischen Bantu und Burkina : Festschrift für Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Geburtstag
publ: Winkelmann, Kerstin; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Köln : Köppe, 2006. - 273 page
2005
Vycichl, Werner
Berberstudien & A sketch of Siwi Berber (Egypt)
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Kossmann, Maarten
Köln : Köppe, 2005. - XXXVI, 258 page . - (Berber Studies; 10)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Porkhomovsky, Victor
Etudes ethnolinguistiques en chamito-sémitique : termes et systèmes de parenté
Les langues chamito-sémitiques (afro-asiatiques). Vol. 1
Gap : Ophrys, 2005. - page 269-290 . - (Faits de Langues; 26)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Schmid, Hans-Jörg; Zulyadaini, Balarabe
"My clothes are my home" or what do we really mean? : A Hausa example
Man and the Lake : proceedings
Maiduguri : Centre for Trans-Saharan Studies, 2005. - page 185-195
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Porkhomovsky, Victor
Towards a Typology of Kinship Terms and Systems in Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) : AAKTS II
Studi afroasiatici
Milano : F. Angeli, 2005. - page 15-28
2004
Nouvelles études berbères : le verbe et autres articles ; actes
publ: Naït-Zerrad, Kamal; Voßen, Rainer; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Köln : Köppe, 2004. - VIII, 204 page . - (Berber Studies; 8)
Dittemer, Clarissa; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Brunk, Karsten
Les pronoms en tchadique : vue d’ensemble
Systèmes de marques personnelles en Afrique
Paris : Peeters, 2004. - page 55-96 . - (Collection Afrique et Langage; 8)
Systèmes de marques personnelles en Afrique
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Segerer, Guillaume
Louvain : Peeters, 2004. - 216 page . - (Collection Afrique et Langage; 8)
Tesserae of Borno : in memory of Wilhelm Seidensticker (1938-1996)
publ: Rothmaler, Eva; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Köln : Köppe, 2004. - 144 page . - (Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter; 16)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Löhr, Doris
Types, patterns and kinds of lexical distribution and their correlation
Tesserae of Borno : in memory of William Seidensticker (1938-1996)
Köln : Köppe, 2004. - page 26-50 . - (Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter; 16)
2002
Brunk, Karsten; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Sommer, Gabriele
Towards a comparative Study of Language Contacts and their Stratification in the Sahel and Suda ...
Nicolai, Robert ; Zima, Peter: Lexical and structural diffusion : interplay of internal and external factors of language developement in the West African Sahel
Nice : Univ. de Nice, Faculté des Lettres, 2002. - page 65-78 . - (Corpus; 1)
2001
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Afroasiatisch
Das Afrika-Lexikon : ein Kontinent in 1000 Stichwörtern
Wuppertal : Hammer, 2001. - page 12-13
Etudes berbères : actes du 1. Bayreuth-Frankfurter Kolloquium zur Berberologie
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Voßen, Rainer
Köln : Köppe, 2001. - 191 page . - (Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter; 13)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Kawka, Rupert; Löhr, Doris; Mtaku, Christopher Yusuf; Vogels, Raimund; Waziri, Ibrahim M.
Historical Implications of a Linguistic Environment : Towards a Systemic Approach
Proceedings of the International Symposium 1999
Frankfurt am Main , 2001. - page 179-190 . - (Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne"; 14)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Porkhomovsky, Victor
Towards a typology of kinship terms and systems in Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic). I. West Chad ...
in Afrika und Übersee volume 84 (2001) issue 2. - page 161-184
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Tschadisch
Das Afrika-Lexikon : ein Kontinent in 1000 Stichwörtern
Stuttgart : Metzler, 2001. - page 654-655
Von Ägypten zum Tschadsee : eine linguistische Reise durch Afrika ; Festschrift für Herrmann Ju ...
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Leger, Rudolf; Seibert, Uwe
Würzburg : Ergon-Verl., 2001. - 542 page . - (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; 53, 3)
2000
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Wohin die Wege führen : Rekonstruktion in Zeit und Raum
"Mehr als nur Worte ..." : afrikanistische Beiträge zum 65. Geburtstag von Franz Rottland
Köln : Köppe, 2000. - page 295-310
1999
Brunk, Karsten; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Jungraithmayr, Herrmann
L'atlas linguistique d'Afrique sahélo-soudanienne (ALASS) : à la recherche d'isoglosses interge ...
Baroin, Catherine: L' homme et l'animal dans le bassin du lac Tchad : actes du colloque du Réseau Méga-Tchad, Orléans, 15 - 17 octobre 1997
Paris : Ed. IRD, 1999. - page 171-179 . - (Collection Colloques et Séminaires)
https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&sou ...
Méga-Tchad : Reseau international de recherches plurisdisciplinaires dans le bassin du Lac Tcha ...
publ: Baroin, Catherine; Arditi, Claude; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Taguem Fah, Gilbert L.
Méga Tchad
Nanterre : Mega-Tchad, 1999
1997
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Afroasiatic Languages
Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara. Band 2
New York : Scribner, 1997. - page 503-505
Jungraithmayr, Herrmann; Nicolaï, Robert; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
A la recherche du Proto-Tchadique : le tchadique au carrefour du Chamito-Sémitique et du Niger- ...
in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris volume N.S. 5 (1997) . - page 151-161
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Jungraithmayr, Herrmann; Nicolaï, Robert
On zoonyms in Chadic : reconstructions and intergenetic diffusion
Les zoonymes : actes du colloque international tenu à Nice les 23, 24 et 25 janvier 1997
Nice : LAMA, 1997. - page 249-258 . - (Publications de la Faculté des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines de Nice / Nouvelle série; 38)
Jungraithmayr, Herrmann; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Towards a Thesaurus of Lexical Resources in the Sahel-Sahara Zone : the Case of Chadic
in Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Nice volume 19 (1997) . - page 191-217
Jungraithmayr, Herrmann; Nicolaï, Robert; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
The West-Central Sudan and Savanna "Sprachbund" : Some Isoglosses in its Favour
Langues et contacts de langues en zone sahelo-saharienne : 3e Table Ronde du Reseau Diffusion Lexical
Napoli : Ist. Univ. Orientale, 1997. - page 109-132
1996
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Bole Language and Documentation Unit : BOLDU, Report II
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 1996 . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 13)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Girgam - the History of the Bole (Fika) People
Bole Language and Documentation Unit : BOLDU, Report II
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 1996. - page 11-154 . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 13)
1995
Studia Chadica et Hamitosemitica : Akten des Internationalen Symposions zur Tschadsprachenforsc ...
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Leger, Rudolf
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 1995
Barreteau, Daniel; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Jungraithmayr, Herrmann
The Vocabulary of Death in Chadic and Hamito-Semitic Languages
Réseau Méga-Tchad: : Mort et rites funéraires dans le bassin du lac Tchad : Séminaire du Réseau Méga-Tchad, ORSTOM Bondy, du 12 au 14 septembre 1990
Paris : ORSTOM editions, 1995. - page 229-242 . - (Collection Colloques et Séminaires)
1994
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Gimba, Alhaji Maina
Bole Language and Documentation Unit : BOLDU, Report I
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 1994 . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 7)
Jungraithmayr, Herrmann; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Chadic Lexical Roots. Band 1. Tentative reconstruction, grading, distribution and comments + Ba ...
Berlin : Reimer, 1994 . - (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika; 20)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Gimba, Alhaji Maina
Crafts : Kumba Decoration, Mat Plaiting, Calabash Decoration
Bole Language and Documentation Unit : BOLDU, Report I
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 1994. - page 15-45
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Gimba, Alhaji Maina
Glossary Bole-English
Bole Language and Documentation Unit : BOLDU, Report I
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 1994. - page 125-137 . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 7)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Gimba, Alhaji Maina
Toponyms
Bole Language and Documentation Unit : BOLDU, Report I
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 1994. - page 85-100 . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 7)
1993
Jungraithmayr, Herrmann; Ibriszimow, Dymitr
"Chadic Lexical Roots" : Wege zum Ur-Tschadischen
Beiträge zur Afrikanischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft : Leipzig, 24. - 26. September 1992
Köln : Köppe, 1993. - page 129-148
Broß, Michael; Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Baba, Ahmad Tela; Gimba, Alhaji Maina
Pots, Potters and their Language among the Hausa and the Bole : a Contrastive Analysis
Vorträge : Internationales Symposium, SFB 268
Frankfurt am Main , 1993. - page 75-96 . - (Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne"; 2)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Some thoughts on the relative chronology of the Chadic vocabulary
Datation et chronologie dans le bassin du lac Tchad
Paris : ORSTOM, 1993. - page 141-146
1991
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
„Femme“ et „homme“ en tchadique - en comparaison avec les autres langues chamito-sémitiques ...
Les relations hommes - femmes dans le bassin du lac Tchad
Paris : ORSTOM, 1991. - page 47-58
1990
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
A new approach towards Chadic lexical reconstructions
Proceedings of the fifth International Hamito-Semitic Congress. Volume 1
Wien : Afro-Pub, 1990. - page 227-234 . - (Beiträge zur Afrikanistik; 40)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Notes on Chadic Lexical Comparisons : selected issues
in Folia Orientalia volume 27 (1990) . - page 199-216
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Towards a Common Chadic Lexicon : Prolegomena ad linguarum Chadicarum lexicon commune
Kraków : Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, 1990
1988
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Some Remarks on Chadic Numerals
Afrikanistische Beiträge zum XXIV. Deutschen Orientalistentag : 23. - 26. September 1988
Köln : Köppe, 1988. - page 67-74 . - (Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere; Sondernr. 1988)
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Z problematyki czadyjsko-kuszyckich porównań leksykalnych
in Przegląd Orientalistyczny volume 147 (1988) issue 3. - page 287-289
Chadic linguistics = Linguistique Tchadique = Tschadistik
publ: Ibriszimow, Dymitr; Tourneux, Henry; Wolff, H. Ekkehard
Köln : Köppe
African Linguistics
Prof. Dr. Dymitr Ibriszimow
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
Phone: 0921 / 55-3581
E-mail: dymitr.ibriszimow@uni-bayreuth.de
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