27.2020, Featured Linguist: Adams Bodomo

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Subject: 27.2020, Featured Linguist: Adams Bodomo

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Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 09:48:27
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Adams Bodomo

 
Dear LINGUIST List Readers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist, Adams Bodomo, for
Fund Drive 2016.

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I studied linguistics and became a linguist for two reasons. First, I wanted
to be a top diplomat for my country, Ghana, which would involve being posted
around the world to represent my country. I figured that if I studied
linguistics and foreign languages at the University of Ghana that would
increase my chances, so I read Linguistics, French, and Swahili. Second, I
wanted to help document and preserve my mother-tongue, Dagaare, a small
language in northern Ghana. I succeeded in writing the first grammar sketch of
the language, published at Stanford University titled The Structure of
Dagaare. One of the most wonderful experiences young scholars will ever get in
their academic life is seeing their first book and holding it in their hands.
In my case it was even more dramatic because of the way it happened. After
teaching the structure of Dagaare for two years as a part-time lecturer at
Stanford University I went back to Norway – I was writing a doctoral thesis at
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – to submit and defend my
thesis. Then the publishers at CSLI , Stanford sent me copies of my book in
Norway. However I never received them because I returned to Stanford campus
for a conference event. Then I walked into the Stanford Bookstore and happened
to look at a section of the Bookstore with a bookstand titled: “Stanford
Authors”. Lo and behold, I saw my book and stood there for more than 20
minutes flipping through it unendingly – as if I was reading the texts for the
first time when indeed it was I who wrote them in the first place. There were
no selfies at that time, else I would have taken a memorable selfie about how
it feels like to receive your first book.

(...)

Read more:

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