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Lutz Marten

Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
SOAS University of London
London

Lutz Marten is professor of linguistics at SOAS University of London. Since 2020, he has sat in the role of editor of the Transactions of the Philological Society. Lutz Marten is interested in human language: how language is structured and used, how languages differ and change over time, and how language is linked to culture, society, history, identity, and other domains of human life, but focusing on descriptive, comparative and theoretical linguistics, empirically grounded.

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James Essegbey

Languages, Literatures and Cultures
University of Florida
U.S.A.

Professor James Essegbey’s research interests include the description and documentation of endangered languages, the varieties of English spoken by people of African descent, and the influence of African languages on creoles. He works on the Kwa languages of West Africa, especially Gbe (i.e. Ewe, Gen, Aja and Fon), Akan, and Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages (Nyangbo and Animere). He also investigates the influence of the Gbe languages on Suriname creoles.

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Helga Schröder

Department of Linguistics and Languages
University of Nairobi
Kenya

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Humphrey Jeremiah Ojwang

Anthropology, Gender and African Studies
University of Nairobi
Kenya