Jochen Zeller Editor

Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is interested in linguistic theory, comparative and historical linguistics, and questions of language and identity. Most of his work focuses on African languages and he has conducted research in Eastern and Southern Africa. His publications include At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface (OUP 2002), A Grammatical Sketch of Herero (with Wilhelm Möhlig and Jekura Kavari; Köppe 2002), The Dynamics of Language (with Ronnie Cann and Ruth Kempson; Elsevier 2005), and Colloquial Swahili (with Donovan McGrath; Routledge 2003/2012). Ellen Hurst-Harosh is Associate Professor in the Humanities Education Development Unit at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She holds a PhD in Linguistics from UCT. Her research focuses on African youth language practices, including stylects and registers, as well as translanguaging pedagogies and the use of African languages in higher education. Recent publications include the monograph Tsotsitaal in South Africa: Style and Metaphor in Youth Language Practices (Köppe 2020) and the edited collection Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa (with Rajend Mesthrie and Heather Brookes; CUP 2021). Nancy C. Kula is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, and an affiliated Research Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Her research focuses on Bantu languages of Central/Eastern and Southern Africa where she works on phonology, morphophonology, intonation, tone, the phonology-syntax interface, and aspects of morphosyntax. She also works on language policy and multilingual pedagogies, and has published in these areas in international journals and volumes. She is co-editor of The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonology (2011 and 2013). Jochen Zeller is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. He received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt in 1999, and has lived and worked in South Africa since 2001. He specializes in generative syntax, but he has also published on semantics and phonetics and on topics in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. While his main research area is Bantu grammar, he is also interested in language and cognition more broadly, and he is currently working on various projects that use experimental methods to explore online language processing in speakers of Bantu languages.