Dr. Lee Pratchett | Publikationen
Publications
| Pratchett, Lee J. In prep. The queerest click: a lesson in linguistic marginalia by Drag Queens. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. and Linda Gerlach. In prep. Puzzling palatalisation in the Kalahari Basin: tracing contact between ǂ'Amkoe, Kalahari Khoe, and Bantu. | ||
| Güldemann, Tom & Lee J. Pratchett. Submitted. Non-verbal predication in Ju. In Bertinetto, Pier Marco, Luca Ciucci, and Denis Creissels (eds.), Non-verbal predication: a typological survey (Comparative handbooks of linguistics). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. Submitted. When verbs come (and) sit together: on the diachrony of multiverb constructions in Ju|'hoan and !Xun. In Andrason, Alexander and Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds.), The rise and fall of serial verb constructions, Special issue of Stellenbosch Papers in linguistics PLUS. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. Submitted. Centring the periphery: a comparative analysis of Tshwa pronominal systems and the implications for Kalahari-Khoe classification. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. Under review. In memory of "Nogau": towards a linguistic historiography of Ju-speaking hunter-gatherers in Namibia, Anthropological linguistics. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. Accepted. (with Nakagawa, Hirosi, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich et al.), Khoisan Phonological Typology Database: towards a comprehensive phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area, Linguistic typology (special edition Current research in phonological typology). | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2021. An areal and typological appraisal of gender in Ju, STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 74/2: 279-302. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2020. Language contact and change eastern Botswana: insights from the pronominal system of an undocumented Kalahari Khoe variety (Khoe), Language in Africa 1: 33-64. | ||
| Güldemann, Tom, Lee J. Pratchett and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2019. From pragmatics to sentence type: non-topical S/A arguments and clause-second particles in the Kalahari Basin. Gengo Kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan) 154. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2018. Voicing on the fringe: towards an analysis of 'quirky' phonology in Ju and beyond, in Güldemann, Tom & Hirosi Nakagawa (eds.), Phonetics and phonology in the Kalahari Basin: in honor of Anthony Traill, Africana Linguistica 24:99-121. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2017. Dialectal diversity in Southeastern Ju (Kx'a) and a description of Groot Laagte Laagte ǂKxʼaoǁʼae. PhD dissertation. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. | ||
| Biesele, Megan, Lee J. Pratchett, and Taesun Moon. 2012. Juǀ’hoan and ǂX’aoǁ’aen documentation in Namibiaː overcoming obstacles to community-based language documentation. In McGill, Stuart & Peter Austin (eds), Language documentation and description 11: 72-89. London: SOAS. | ||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2011. Dialectal diversity in Taa (Tuu family): a dialectometric approach to quantifying divergence in East and West !Xoon. Unpublished Master's thesis. Philipps-Marburg Universität. | ||
Reviews
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2020. Review of Anthony Traill (ed. by Hirosi Nakagawa & Andy Chebanne), A trilingual !Xóõ dictionary: !Xóõ-English-Setswana, Cologne, Rüdiger Köppe (Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung / Research in Khoisan Studies 37), 2018, 318p. Linguistique et langues africaines (LLA) 6: 137-140. |
Online corpora
| Online and curated corpus on Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe, Khoe-Kwadi) and Sasi (ǂʼAmkoe, Kxʼa): | ||
| A discourse-based documentation of San varieties in the Western Sandveld Region (Central District, Botswana). Corpus. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive, ELAR. [URL: https://www.elararchive.org/dk0398/] | ||
| Online and curated corpus on Ju|'hoan and ǂKxao-||'ae (Ju, Kxʼa; my corpus is part of the substantially larger corpus developed by Dr. Megan Biesele "Ju|'hoan Audio & Video Material 1970 to Present: A Work in Progress"): | ||
| Community-based digital documentation of Ju|'hoan and ǂX'ao-||'aen: audio, video and text archives of language and culture diversity. Corpus. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive, ELAR. [URL: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI854174] | ||
Film documentation
| ǂKxʼaoǁʼae-language documentation on building traditional huts (produced with funds from ELDP) | ||
| Pratchett. 2017. M!a gu tju -letʼs build a house. In Biesele, Megan (Curator) Community-based digital documentation of Ju|'hoan and ǂX'ao-||'aen: audio, video and text archives of language and culture diversity. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive, ELAR. [Edited preview] [Full Open Access Film] | ||
Selected talks
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2021. When verbs come (and) clash together: the diachrony of multiverb constructions in Juǀ’hoan and ǃXun. Presented at the Afrikalinguistisches Kolloquium, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 16.10.2021, Berlin: Zenodo [DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5718368] | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2021. Respect*in*g African languages: towards a typology of pronominal honorification in African languages. Presented at the 24. Afrikanist*innentag, Institut für Afrikanistik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. 1-3 July 2021. | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2021. The queerest click: a lesson in linguistic marginalia by Drag Queens. Presented at the 27th Lavender Languages & Linguistics Conference, California: Zenodo [DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5119340] | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2021. The queerest click: lessons in linguistic marginalia from Drag Queens. Paper presented at the Afrikalinguistisches Kolloquium, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 26.1.2021. | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. and Linda Gerlach. 2020. Puzzling Palatalisation: tracking areal features and contact across ǂ'Amkoe, Kalahari Khoe, and Bantu. Paper presented at the Afrikalinguistisches Kolloquium, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 9.6.2020. | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2019. Language documentation in Africa: documenting endangered languages of the Kalahari San. Keynote given at ELDP Semana da documentação linguística, FFLCH, University of Sao Paulo, 8.10.2019. | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2019. Politeness knows no boundaries:the diffusion of pronominal honorification in the Kalahari Basin. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on (Im)politeness, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 17-19 July 2019.. | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2018. Towards a reclassification of Kalahari Khoe: evidence from Tcua pronominal system. Presented at the University of Botswana, Botswana. 17.08.2018. | |||
| Güldemann, Tom and Lee J. Pratchett. 2018. ReKOMmenting on ǂKxʼaoǁʼae: A discourse-based approach to theticity-marking particles in the Kalahari Basin. Paper presented at Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora 3 (ISSLaC3): discourse and information structure. Westphalisch-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 7-8.12.2018. [PDF] | |||
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| Pratchett, Lee J. 2018. Documenting linguistic diversity in eastern Botswana: the case of Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe). Workshop „Keeping Up Khoisan“ at the 20th International Congress of Linguists, Cape Town, South Africa. 2.-6.7.2018. | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2018. Documenting endangered languages of the Kalahari San in eastern Botswana. Presented at the Afrika Kolloquium, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin. 22..11.2018 | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2017. Language contact and language change in the Kalahari: evidence from a study of nominal gender in Ju (Kx’a). Presented at the Institut für Skandinavistik, Frisianistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel. 19.12.2017 | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2017. Topic in Southeastern Ju varieties. Riezlern6 (6th International symposium for Khoisan languages and linguistics). Cederberg, South Africa. 25.-27.3.2017. | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2015. Sharing knowledge and discovering resources: the Juǀ'hoan archives at ELAR. “Multimedia Resources for Hunter-Gatherer Research“. 11th Conference on hunting and gathering societies, University of Vienna. 7.-11.9.2015. | |||
| Pratchett, Lee J. 2015. Noun categorisation in Ju|’hoan: an unexpected window into language and cultural change in the Kalahari. Workshop “Hunter-Gatherer Languages in Contact”. 11th Conference on hunting and gathering societies, University of Vienna. 7.-11.9.2015. |