
Martha Booker Johnson
Doctoral Student
she/her
300 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH
43210
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Areas of Expertise
- Bantu
- Morphology
- Phonology
Education
- B.A. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Pomona College, 2013
I am interested in Bantu morphology and phonology. I conduct fieldwork in Tanzania on Kihehe, adding to descriptive knowledge about the language. Using data from my fieldwork, I am analyzing a pattern in Kihehe verbal morphology where a tense marker occurs outside of a subject marker. Cross-linguistically, subject markers tend to be farther from the root than TAM, so the order in Kihehe is unexpected.