Lutz Marten

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BornDecember 1967
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipGermany
Education
  • English language literature
  • Philosophy
  • African studies
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg
Occupation
  • linguist
  • Africanist

Lutz Marten (born December 1967) is a German linguist and africanist. He is currently professor of general and African linguistics at SOAS University of London.[1] Since 2020, he is also the editor of the Transactions of the Philological Society.[2]

Academic career

After studying English language and literature, philosophy and African studies at the University of Hamburg, Marten joined SOAS University of London for a Masters programme in linguistics in 1993, where, in 1995, he subsequently began his doctoral studies under the supervision of Ruth Kempson. In 1999, he completed his thesis entitled Syntactic and Semantic Underspecification in the Verb Phrase.

Research

Between 2014 and 2018, Marten was the principal investigator of the research project Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Typology, contact and change, which was funded by the Leverhulme Trust.[3][4] He is also involved in the development of the Dynamic Syntax framework project, which is supported by grants from the ESRC, EPSRC, the Leverhulme Trust and AHRC.[5]

References

  1. "Professor Lutz Marten". Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  2. "Council – The Philological Society". Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  3. "Research Project Grants 2014 – Leverhulme Trust". Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  4. "Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Typology, contact and change – SOAS University of London". Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  5. "Dynamic Syntax – Home". Retrieved 2021-02-23.

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