Dr. Doris Löhr
Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Academic Degrees
| 1999 | Undergraduate study in African Philology, Social Anthropology, and Pedagogy, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| 1992 | Magister degree in African Philology, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| 1985 – 1991 | Doctorate in African Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt |
Professional Background
| Since 10/2012 | Academic Coordinator/Managing Director of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth |
| 2009 – 2012 | Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg's Asia-Africa Institute, Joint project DFG-SOAS, "A study of Old Kanembu in Early West African Qur’anic manuscripts and Islamic recitations (Tarjumo) in the light of Kanuri-Kanembu dialects spoken around Lake Chad" |
| 2003 – 2008 | Research Associate at the University of Leipzig's Institute of African Studies |
| 1994 – 2002 | Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt's Institute of African Studies DFG projects in collaborative research centre 286 "Cultural development and language history in the West African savannas" |
| 1992 – 1994 | Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
Memberships
| Since 2016 | Member of the central committee, Vereinigung für Afrikastudien in Deutschland (VAD) |
| Since 2005 | Coordinator of the European branch of the Borno Museum Society |
| Since 2005 | Associated member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies (ZIAF), Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Since 2002 | Member of the Society for Endangered Languages (GBS) |
| Since 1997 | Member of the Society for Endangered Languages (GBS) |
| Since 1997 | Member of the "Həɠya Society for the promotion of Malgwa culture and language", Maiduguri (Nigeria) |
Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Regional:
- Nigeria
- Niger
- Chad
Research Topics:
- Chadic and Saharan languages
- linguistic concepts of space and time
- linguistic geography
Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Selected publications
2022
African Studies Centres Around the World : A Network-Based Inventory
publ: Fendler, Ute; Löhr, Doris
München : AVM – Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München, 2022. - 220 page
doi:10.23780/9783960915874 ...
2017
Löhr, Doris; Rothmaler, Eva
Grammaticalized verbal forms in Kanuri/Kanembu
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012. Volume 2
Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing, 2017. - page 564-591
2011
Löhr, Doris
Bə́lantə́ zə́la átə yáwe "sending an eagle up to water" : Multiword expressions in Malgwa ...
Topics in Chadic Linguistics. Teil VI. Comparative and Descriptive Studies. Papers from the 5th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Leipzig, June 10-13, 2009.
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. - page 131-143 . - (Chadic Linguistics; 7)
Bondarev, Dmitry; Jaggar, Philip J.; Löhr, Doris; Tijani, Abba Isa
Differential subject marking in Kanuri : agentivity, pragmatics, and split-intransitive
Kanuri, Borno and Beyond : Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. - page 27-57 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 22)
Löhr, Doris; Rothmaler, Eva; Ziegelmeyer, Georg
Introduction
Kanuri, Borno and Beyond : Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011 (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 22)
Bondarev, Dmitry; Löhr, Doris
Die Kanuri/Kanembu-Manuskriptkultur = The Kanuri/Kanembu manuscript culture
in Manuscript Cultures : Newsletter volume 4 (2011) . - page 61-67
http://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/epub/volltexte/2015 ...
Topics in Chadic Linguistics. Teil VI. Comparative and Descriptive Studies. Papers from the 5th ...
publ: Löhr, Doris; Awagana, Ari
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. - 202 page . - (Chadic Linguistics; 7)
Löhr, Doris; Rothmaler, Eva; Ziegelmeyer, Georg
Kanuri, Borno and Beyond : Current Studies on the Lake Chad Region
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2011. - VIII, 208 page . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 22)
2010
Löhr, Doris
Coding temporal subordination in Malgwa
Aspects of co- and subordination : case Studies from African, Slavonic, and Turkic Languages
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2010. - page 101-117 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 18)
2009
Löhr, Doris
Lake Chad and the migratory routes to Borno : a linguistic trail?
Migration et mobilité dans le bassin du lac Tchad : Actes du XIIIe colloque international du Réseau Méga-Tchad, Maroua, 31 octobre-3 novembre 2005
Marseille : IRD Éditions, 2009. - page 665-681 . - (Colloques et séminaires)
Awagana, Ari; Löhr, Doris
Loanwords in Hausa : Results from the Loanword typology project
Topics in Chadic Linguistics. Band V. Papers from the 4th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Bayreuth, October 30-31 2007
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2009. - page 37-49 . - (Chadic Linguistics; 6)
Löhr, Doris; Wolff, H. Ekkehard; Awagana, Ari
Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language
Loanwords in the World's Languages : A Comparative Handbook
Berlin : de Gruyter Mouton, 2009. - page 166-190
Löhr, Doris
Reduction of dialectal features in Kanuri as outcome of language contact
When Languages Meet : Language Contact and Change in West Africa
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2009. - page 23-41 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 13)
https://www.koeppe.de/titel_when-languages-meet
2008
Löhr, Doris; Wolff, H. Ekkehard
Convergence in Saharan and Chadic Tense-Aspect-Systems
in Afrika und Übersee volume 88 (2008) issue 1/2. - page 265-299
Löhr, Doris
Revisiting the aspectual domain in Malgwa (Central Chadic)
Semito-Hamitic Festschrift for A.B. Dolgopolsky & H. Jungraithmayr.
Berlin : Reimer Verlag, 2008. - page 173-185 . - (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika; 24)
2007
Löhr, Doris
Nigerian Kanuri (Sub-)Dialects Reconsidered : a Corpus-based Approach
Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics : Proceedings of 8th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, Aug. 22-25, 2001
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2007. - page 165-182 . - (Nilo-Saharan; 22)
Löhr, Doris
Predication focus in Malgwa
Topics in Chadic Linguistics. Band IV. Comparative and Descriptive Studies : Papers from the 3rd Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Villejuif, November 24-25, 2005
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2007. - page 87-101 . - (Chadic Linguistics; 5)
2006
Löhr, Doris; Wolff, H. Ekkehard
Encoding Focus in Verbal Morphology : Predication Focus and the "Kanuri Focus Shift"
Papers on Information Structure in African Languages
Berlin : ZAS, 2006. - page 185-209 . - (ZAS Papers in Linguistics; 46)
http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/310 ...
2004
Mensch und Natur in Westafrika : Ergebnisse aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich 268 "Kulturentwickl ...
publ: Löhr, Doris; Albert, Klaus-Dieter; Neumann, Katharina
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2004. - 537 page
Löhr, Doris; Jungraithmayr, Herrmann; Leger, Rudolf
See und Sand – der Tschadsee in Nordost-Nigeria und der Sahel Burkina Fasos. 1. "Westwärts weht ...
Mensch und Natur in Westafrika : Ergebnisse aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich 268
"Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne"
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2004. - page 169-195
doi:10.1002/3527605754 ...
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)
2003
Löhr, Doris
Locative-directional verbal extensions and related prepositions in Malgwa
Actes du 3e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine, Lomé 2000
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2003. - page 189-206
Löhr, Doris; Seidensticker-Brikay, Gisela
The Malgwa : a historical overview and some ethnographic notes
in Borno Museum Society Newsletter volume 56/57 (2003) . - page 23-43
2002
Löhr, Doris
The Malgwa in Maiduguri
From Bulamari to Yerwa to Metropolitan Maiduguri : Interdisciplinary Studies on the Capital of Borno
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2002. - page 127-143 . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 24)
Löhr, Doris
Die Sprache der Malgwa (Nárá Málgwa) : Grammatische Erstbeschreibung einer zentraltschadischen ...
Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2002. - 336 page . - (Schriften zur Afrikanistik; 6)
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/37377?rskey ...
Löhr, Doris
The Malgwa in Maiduguri
From Bulamari to Yerwa to Metropolitan Maiduguri : Interdisciplinary Studies on the Capital of Borno
Köln : Köppe, 2002. - page 127-143 . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 24)
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006015 ...
2001
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)
1997
Löhr, Doris
The development of Kanuri orthography from 1854 until the present
Advances in Kanuri scholarship
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1997. - page 77-113 . - (Westafrikanische Studien; 17)
1996
Cyffer, Norbert; Löhr, Doris; Platte, Editha; Tijani, Abba Isa
Adaptation and delimitation : some thoughts about the Kanurization of the Gamergu
Vorträge: Internationales Symposium - SFB 268 - Frankfurt/Main, 13.12.-16.12.1995
Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 1996. - page 49-66 . - (Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne"; 8)
https://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/opus4/fr ...
Zach, Barbara; Kirscht, Holger; Löhr, Doris; Neumann, Katharina; Platte, Editha
Masakwa dry season cropping in the Chad Basin
Vorträge: Internationales Symposium - SFB 268 - Frankfurt/Main, 13.12.-16.12.1995
Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 1996. - page 349-356 . - (Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 "Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne"; 8)
https://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/opus4/fr ...
Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Dr. Doris Löhr
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
Phone: 0921 / 55-5401
E-mail: Doris.loehr@uni-bayreuth.de
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