# Ellen Contini-Morava

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Linguistic anthropologist

Ellen Contini-Morava Contini-Morava (left) with her husband Jack Morava near the Burgess Shale, 1971 Born (1948-12-07) 7 December 1948 (age 77) Education Columbia University 1983 (PhD) Occupation Anthropological linguist Known for Specialization in Bantu languages and Swahili Honours professor emerita

**Ellen Contini-Morava** (born 7 December 1948[1] ) is an American [anthropological](/source/Linguistic_anthropology) linguist, interested in the meanings of linguistic forms, [discourse analysis](/source/Discourse_analysis), [functional linguistics](/source/Functional_linguistics) and (noun) classification; in particular, in the relationship between lexicon and grammar. She specializes in [Bantu languages](/source/Bantu_languages) in general, and [Swahili](/source/Swahili_language) in particular.

## Education and career

Contini-Morava received her [PhD](/source/PhD) from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) in 1983[2] under [William Diver](/source/William_Diver) and Erica Garcia. Contini-Morava is a [professor emerita](/source/Professor_emerita) at the [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia).[3]

## 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).[4]

Her [edited volumes](/source/Edited_volume) include *Between Grammar and Lexicon* (edited with Yishai Tobin, John Benjamins, 2000)[5] and *Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis* (edited with Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller, John Benjamins, 2004).[6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [BnF Catalogue général](https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15028494g)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Complete Bibliography"](https://www.csling.org/csls-bibliography/search). *Columbia School Linguistic Society*. Retrieved 2021-12-30.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Ellen Contini-Morava, Professor Emerita"](http://anthropology.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/elc9j), *Faculty profiles*, University of Virginia Department of Anthropology, retrieved 2020-09-20

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Reviews of *Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization*: - Blommaert, Jan (January 1993), *Journal of Pragmatics*, **19** (1): 88–94, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1016/0378-2166(93)90073-x](https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2893%2990073-x), [hdl](/source/Hdl_(identifier)):[1854/LU-386042](https://hdl.handle.net/1854%2FLU-386042){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Dahl, Östen (June 1990), *Nordic Journal of Linguistics*, **13** (1): 73–75, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/s0332586500002122](https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0332586500002122), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [145768124](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145768124){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Elderkin, Edward D. (1992), *Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London*, **55** (2): 387–390, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S0041977X00005292](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0041977X00005292), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [619691](https://www.jstor.org/stable/619691), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [161588525](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161588525){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - King, Brian (June 1991), *Canadian Journal of Linguistics*, **36** (2): 196–197, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/s0008413100014390](https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0008413100014390), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [148735177](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:148735177){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Rueda Rueda, Mercedes (November 2016), *Estudios Humanísticos. Filología* (13), University of Leon: 218, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.18002/ehf.v0i13.4514](https://doi.org/10.18002%2Fehf.v0i13.4514), [hdl](/source/Hdl_(identifier)):[10612/9473](https://hdl.handle.net/10612%2F9473){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - [Schadeberg](/source/Thilo_C._Schadeberg), Thilo C. (September 1990), *Language*, **66** (3): 584–590, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/414620](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F414620), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [414620](https://www.jstor.org/stable/414620){{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical)) - Smetánková, Irena (January 1991), ["Review"](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1304095424), *Archiv Orientální*, **59**: 324–326, [ProQuest](/source/ProQuest) [1304095424](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1304095424)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Kaye, Alan S. (March 2002), "Review of *Between Grammar and Lexicon*", *Language*, **78** (1): 210–211, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1353/lan.2002.0030](https://doi.org/10.1353%2Flan.2002.0030), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [3086696](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3086696), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [143535183](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143535183)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Becker, Sandra Cristina (December 2007), "Review of *Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis*", *Language*, **83** (4): 912–913, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1353/lan.2008.0011](https://doi.org/10.1353%2Flan.2008.0011), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [40070986](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40070986), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [143748470](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143748470)

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