Ellen Contini-Morava

She specializes in Bantu languages in general, and Swahili in particular.

Contini-Morava received her PhD from Columbia University in 1983[1] under William Diver and Erica Garcia.

[2] 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).

[3] Her edited volumes include Between Grammar and Lexicon (edited with Yishai Tobin, John Benjamins, 2000)[4] and Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis (edited with Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller, John Benjamins, 2004).

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Ellen Contini-Morava (left) with her husband Jack Morava near the Burgess Shale , 1971