Francis Katamba

Francis Katamba (b. 1947) is a Ugandan-born British linguist. He is currently an emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom.[1] His research focuses on English phonology and morphology, morphological theory, phonological theory, and African linguistics.[2]

Francis Katamba
Born (1947-05-01) 1 May 1947
Kampala, Uganda
Known for
  • English phonology
  • English morphology
  • Morphological theory
  • Phonological theory
  • African linguistics
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-discipline
  • English phonology
  • English morphology
  • Morphological theory
  • Phonological theory
  • African linguistics
Institutions
WebsiteKatamba on the website of Lancaster University

Career

Katamba has been a professor at Lancaster University since 2000.[3]

Research

Katamba's research focuses on English phonology and morphology.

He is credited for his work on inflectional phrase and Luganda tones[4].

Katamba claimed that exocentric compounds are headless - in other words they do not contain an element that can function as a semantic head in Morphology in 1993.[5]

In his book, entitled Morphology and published in 2005, Katamba extended his analysis to other areas in linguistics to have a grasp of the morphology of words, but also a better understanding of the relationship between morphology, phonology and semantics, in addition to an overview of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.

In a chapter on back-formation, published in the Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition) in 2006, he investigated the most productive type of back-formations, hypocoristics.[6]

Publications

Katamba has publications in several major journals such as English Language and Linguistics.

Katamba has written numerous books entitled Introduction to Phonology (Longman, 1989), English Words (2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2005); Morphology (co-author John Stonham, London: Palgrave. 2nd ed. 2006) and he has edited several others, including Frontiers of Phonology, co-edited with Jacques Durand (Longman, 1995); Bantu Phonology and Morphology (Lincom Europa, Munich, 1995); Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction 3rd ed. (edited with William O'Grady and Michael Dobrovolsky, London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997) and Morphology: Critical Concepts. (London: Routledge. 6 volumes, 2004).

Bibliography

Books
  • Katamba, F. X. (2004). Morphology: Critical Concepts. Routledge.
  • Katamba, F. X., & Stonham, J. (2006). Morphology. (Modern linguistics series). Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • Culpeper, J. V., Kerswill, P., Wodak, R., McEnery, T., & Katamba, F. (2018). English Language: Description, Variation and Context. (2nd ed.) London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles
  • Katamba, F. (1975). Death and Man in the Earlier Works of Wole Soyinka. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 9(3), 63–71. doi:
  • Katamba, F. X., Nurse, D. (Ed.), & Phillippson, G. (Ed.) (2002). Review of H.J. Giegerich (1999) Lexical strata in English : morphological causes, phonological effects. English Language and Linguistics, 6(2), 379-416. doi:

References
  1. "Katamba - Lancaster University". lancaster.ac.uk. 6 April 2019.
  2. "Francis Katamba". WorldCat.org. 6 April 2019.
  3. "Martin Bygate - Lancaster University". Fancis Katamba - Lancaster University. 6 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  4. Hyman & Katamba (1993), p. 56.
  5. Morphology. WorldCat. 27 May 2015. OCLC 29046718.
  6. "Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition): Back-Formation". Elsevier. 27 May 2015. doi:10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/00108-5. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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