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Dr Joseph Lovestrand
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Email
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Location
4.205, Colchester Campus
Research and professional activities
Conferences and presentations
Cognate complements in Barayin (Chadic)
Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (Workshop on verb doubling in Chadic languages), University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands, 25/8/2026
Serial verb constructions and posture semantics
Association for Linguistic Typology conference, University of Lyon 2 - Lumière, Lyon, France, 3/7/2026
Rethinking aspect in Barayin
Afrikanist*innentag (Workshop on tense and aspect in Chadic and Berber languages), Vienna, Austria, 19/6/2025
Tail-head linkage in Barayin
Syntax of the World’s Languages X, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 19/6/2025
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Linguistics in Action (LG119)
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Syntax: The Structure of Sentences (LG212)
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World Language Structures (LG359)
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Semantics (LG476)
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Research methods for language and linguistics (LG213)
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Project: Linguistics (LG831)
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Group Project: Linguistics (LG832)
Publications
Journal articles (9)
Lovestrand, J., Languages of Sumba: State of the field. NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia. 70, 39-60
Lovestrand, J., (2023). Language ideology in monologues of two Barayin speakers. Language in Africa. 4 (1), 103-136
Lovestrand, J., Balle, M. and Edwards, O., (2022). Notes on Kodi Phonology. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 15 (2), 1-26
Ross, D. and Lovestrand, J., (2022). Do prior motion serial verbs (go) morphologize? Insights into diachrony from typology. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus / SPiL Plus. 65, 105-145
Andrason, A., Aikhenvald, AY., Egbokhare, FO., Fehn, A-M., Gębka-Wolak, M., Locatell, C., Lovestrand, J., Moroz, A., Nau, N., Phiri, A., Pratchett, LJ., Ross, D., Schaefer, RP. and Weiss, D., (2022). The rise and fall of Serial Verb Constructions: Finale. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus. 65, 267-273
Lovestrand, J., (2021). Serial Verb Constructions. Annual Review of Linguistics. 7 (1), 109-130
Lowe, J. and Lovestrand, J., (2020). Minimal phrase structure: a new formalized theory of phrase structure. Journal of Language Modelling. 8 (1), 1-52
Lovestrand, J., (2018). The background markernáin Barayin. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 39 (1), 1-39
Lovestrand, J., (2018). Plural addressee marker and grammaticalization in Barayin. Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics. 10 (1), 52-82
Books (2)
Lovestrand, J., (2026). Directional extensions in Chadic languages. Language Science Press. 3985541914. 9783985541911
Lovestrand, J., (2022). Barayin Morphosyntax A Lexical-Functional Approach. Oxford University Press. 0198851154. 9780198851158
Book chapters (2)
Pearce, M. and Lovestrand, J., (2024). Vowel harmony in Chadic languages. In: The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony. Oxford University Press. 603- 609. 0192561472. 9780192561473
Lovestrand, J. and Ross, D., (2021). 3 Serial verb constructions and motion semantics. In: Associated Motion. De Gruyter. 87- 128
Conferences (3)
Lovestrand, J., (2020). Comparing orthography design in Barayin (Chad) and Kodi (Indonesia)
Lovestrand, J., (2020). F-structure and s-structure of Urdu complex predicates
Lovestrand, J. and Lowe, JJ., (2017). Minimal C-structure: Rethinking Projection in Phrase Structure