{{short description|Linguistic anthropologist}} {{Infobox person | name = Ellen Contini-Morava | image = Jack and Ellen Yoho BC 1971.jpg | caption = Contini-Morava (left) with her husband [[Jack Morava]] near the [[Burgess Shale]], 1971 |birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1948|12|07|df=y}} | education = [[Columbia University]] 1983 (PhD) | occupation = Anthropological linguist | known_for = Specialization in [[Bantu languages]] and [[Swahili language|Swahili]] | honours = [[professor emerita]] }} '''Ellen Contini-Morava''' (born 7 December 1948<ref>[https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15028494g BnF Catalogue général]</ref> ) is an American [[Linguistic anthropology|anthropological]] linguist, interested in the meanings of linguistic forms, [[discourse analysis]], [[functional linguistics]] and (noun) classification; in particular, in the relationship between lexicon and grammar. She specializes in [[Bantu languages]] in general, and [[Swahili language|Swahili]] in particular.
==Education and career== Contini-Morava received her [[PhD]] from [[Columbia University]] in 1983<ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete Bibliography|url=https://www.csling.org/csls-bibliography/search|access-date=2021-12-30|website=Columbia School Linguistic Society|language=en-US}}</ref> under [[William Diver]] and Erica Garcia. Contini-Morava is a [[professor emerita]] at the [[University of Virginia]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://anthropology.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/elc9j|title=Ellen Contini-Morava, Professor Emerita|work=Faculty profiles|publisher=University of Virginia Department of Anthropology|access-date=2020-09-20}}</ref>
==Books== Contini-Morava is the author of the book ''Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization: The Case of Negation and Tense-Aspect with Special Reference to Swahili'' (Mouton de Gruyter, 1989).<ref>Reviews of ''Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization'': *{{citation|last=Blommaert|first=Jan|date=January 1993|doi=10.1016/0378-2166(93)90073-x|hdl=1854/LU-386042|issue=1|journal=Journal of Pragmatics|pages=88–94|title=none|volume=19}} *{{citation|last=Dahl|first=Östen|date=June 1990|doi=10.1017/s0332586500002122|issue=1|journal=Nordic Journal of Linguistics|pages=73–75|title=none|volume=13|s2cid=145768124 }} *{{citation|last=Elderkin|first=Edward D.|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00005292|issue=2|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|jstor=619691|pages=387–390|title=none|volume=55|year=1992|s2cid=161588525 }} *{{citation|last=King|first=Brian|date=June 1991|doi=10.1017/s0008413100014390|issue=2|journal=Canadian Journal of Linguistics|pages=196–197|title=none|volume=36|s2cid=148735177 }} *{{citation|last=Rueda Rueda|first=Mercedes|date=November 2016|doi=10.18002/ehf.v0i13.4514|hdl=10612/9473|issue=13|journal=Estudios Humanísticos. Filología|page=218|publisher=University of Leon|title=none|doi-access=free|hdl-access=free}} *{{citation|last=[[Thilo C. Schadeberg|Schadeberg]]|first=Thilo C.|date=September 1990|doi=10.2307/414620|issue=3|journal=Language|jstor=414620|pages=584–590|title=none|volume=66}} *{{citation|last=Smetánková|first=Irena|date=January 1991|journal=Archiv Orientální|pages=324–326|title=Review|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1304095424|volume=59|id={{ProQuest|1304095424}}}} </ref>
Her [[edited volume]]s include ''Between Grammar and Lexicon'' (edited with Yishai Tobin, John Benjamins, 2000)<ref>{{citation|last=Kaye|first=Alan S.|date=March 2002|issue=1|journal=Language|jstor=3086696|pages=210–211|title=Review of ''Between Grammar and Lexicon''|volume=78|doi=10.1353/lan.2002.0030|s2cid=143535183}}</ref> and ''Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis'' (edited with Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller, John Benjamins, 2004).<ref>{{citation|last=Becker|first=Sandra Cristina|date=December 2007|issue=4|journal=Language|jstor=40070986|pages=912–913|title=Review of ''Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis''|volume=83|doi=10.1353/lan.2008.0011|s2cid=143748470}}</ref>
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