Friederike Lüpke
Biographic Data
| ID | 803757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Friederike Lüpke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Friederike |
| FAMILY NAME | Lüpke |
| SIGNATURE | LÜPKE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1146-1617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
African Languages in Finland: Adding Multicolored Yarn to an Old Ryijy
This article presents an overview of African languages used in Finland today. Although it addresses the Nordic region's colonial past, the focus of the article is on recent immigration to Finland, which took off in the 1990s. A discrepancy exists between the linguistic profiles of African migrants as captured in official census data (which are limited to presumed native language) and the patterns of multilingualism known in migrants’ countries of…
Liliema: A sustainable educational programme promoting African languages and multilingualism according to the social realities of speakers and writers
In recent (socio)linguistic research there is a growing awareness that rural, small-scale multilingualism as the most widespread communicative setting across the globe. Yet, literacy programmes accepting and incorporating this diversity are non-existent. LILIEMA is a unique educational programme currently based in Senegal that addresses the need for enabling learners to use their entire repertoire, nurturing, and validating local knowledges and s…
Patterns and perspectives shape perceptions: Epistemological and methodological reflections on the study of small-scale multilingualism
Aims and objectives: This paper captures social dimensions of language in highly diverse small-scale multilingual contexts that appear to pose challenges for (socio)linguistic description and documentation. I focus on the seeming contradiction of monolingual imaginations of places with heterogeneous and multilingual inhabitants, on great fluidity and variability of language use and the concomitant limits of reification-based identification of cod…
The writing’s on the wall: Spaces for language-independent and language-based literacies
This article investigates what is commonly called multilingual writing. Based on case studies from Mali, and drawing on a number of West African settings, it argues that in fact, not all ‘multilingual’ writing is in effect multilingual. The article proposes a two-tiered classification of types of writing, based on linguistic properties of texts and the differing perspectives of writers and readers. This analysis contrasts writers’ intentions to w…
Comparing Rural Multilingualism in Lowland South America and Western Africa
This article explores and compares multilingualism in small-scale societies of Western Africa and Lowland South America. All are characterized by complex and extensive multilingual practices and regional exchange systems established before the onset of globalization and its varying impacts. Through overviews of the general historical and organizational features of regions, vignette case studies, and a discussion of transformative processes affect…
African(ist) perspectives on vitality: Fluidity, small speaker numbers, and adaptive multilingualism make vibrant ecologies (Response to Mufwene)
This paper addresses language vitality from an Africanist perspective. I identify central components for the paradigm Mufwene (2017) invites us to conceive: the investigation of communicative practices in language ecologies (rather than the study of a language), of fluid speech and its relation to imaginary reifications, of indexical functions of speech and language, and of language ideologies and the perspectives contained in them. I argue that …
Language and Identity in Flux: In Search of Baïnounk
Recent fieldwork (Friederike Lpke 2008, Alexander Cobbinah 2009/10 (see also Cobbinah, this volume)) shows that the map, although essentially still valid, needs to be partially redrawn. In the northern language area around Niamone, the number of villages dominated by speakers of Banounk has decreased. In the south-west, Banounk Gubaher is now only spoken in one village, Djibonker, with closely related varieties in Djifangor and Djibelor. No new d…
Multilingualism and Language Contact in West Africa: Towards a Holistic Perspective
Contemporary West Africa is characterized by extensive societal multilingualism going hand in hand with cultural hybridity. This situation type is characterized by a complex interaction between two or more languages in an individual's brain as well as in an entire society. The historical causes of the multilingual profile of this region lie in the succession of empires emerging in the area from 300 BCE onward and culminating in the Mali empire ar…
It’s a split, but is it unaccusativity: Two classes of intransitive verbs in Jalonke
Jalonke, a Mande language of Guinea, exhibits a formal split of intransitive verbs with respect to the possessive construction in which they appear. Whenever the single argument of a nominalized intransitive verb is linked to the possessor of the nominalized verb, an inalienable possessive construction is used with some verbs, and an alienable possessive construction with others. The inalienable possessive construction is also used for nominalize…
Smash it again, Sam’: Verbs of cutting and breaking in Jalonke
This paper investigates the semantic and syntactic properties of cutting and breaking verbs in Jalonke. Semantic features relevant for these Jalonke verbs are control of the effector over the locus of impact, subcategorization for specific manners/instruments, and the theme being a whole vs. already detached from an entity. The latter distinction is unattested in other languages. Syntactically, the verbs fall into two classes: cut verbs with a tr…
On giving, receiving, affecting and benefitting in Jalonke
The present article investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of verbs with optionally three participants in Jalonke. Jalonke, a variety of Yalunka, belongs to the Mande group of the Niger-Congo language stock and is spoken in and around Guinea (West Africa). In contrast to languages with ditransitive verbs, Jalonke has no verbs with three arguments. Rather, the third participant of the verbs in question is realized in a postpositional p…
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events
We examine universals and crosslinguistic variation in constraints on event segmentation. Previous typological studies have focused on segmentation into syntactic (Pawley 1987) or intonational units (Givón 1991). We argue that the correlation between such units and semantic/conceptual event representations is language-specific. As an alternative, we introduce the MACRO-EVENT PROPERTY (MEP): a construction has the MEP if it packages event represen…
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events
We examine universals and crosslinguistic variation in constraints on event segmentation. Previous typological studies have focused on segmentation into syntactic (Pawley 1987) or intonational units (Givón 1991). We argue that the correlation between such units and semantic/conceptual event representations is language-specific. As an alternative, we introduce the MACRO-EVENT PROPERTY (MEP): a construction has the MEP if it packages event represen…
African(ist) perspectives on vitality: Fluidity, small speaker numbers, and adaptive multilingualism make vibrant ecologies (Response to Mufwene)
This paper addresses language vitality from an Africanist perspective. I identify central components for the paradigm Mufwene (2017) invites us to conceive: the investigation of communicative practices in language ecologies (rather than the study of a language), of fluid speech and its relation to imaginary reifications, of indexical functions of speech and language, and of language ideologies and the perspectives contained in them. I argue that …
Comparing Rural Multilingualism in Lowland South America and Western Africa
This article explores and compares multilingualism in small-scale societies of Western Africa and Lowland South America. All are characterized by complex and extensive multilingual practices and regional exchange systems established before the onset of globalization and its varying impacts. Through overviews of the general historical and organizational features of regions, vignette case studies, and a discussion of transformative processes affect…
Multilingualism and Language Contact in West Africa: Towards a Holistic Perspective
Contemporary West Africa is characterized by extensive societal multilingualism going hand in hand with cultural hybridity. This situation type is characterized by a complex interaction between two or more languages in an individual's brain as well as in an entire society. The historical causes of the multilingual profile of this region lie in the succession of empires emerging in the area from 300 BCE onward and culminating in the Mali empire ar…
Liliema: A sustainable educational programme promoting African languages and multilingualism according to the social realities of speakers and writers
In recent (socio)linguistic research there is a growing awareness that rural, small-scale multilingualism as the most widespread communicative setting across the globe. Yet, literacy programmes accepting and incorporating this diversity are non-existent. LILIEMA is a unique educational programme currently based in Senegal that addresses the need for enabling learners to use their entire repertoire, nurturing, and validating local knowledges and s…
Language and Identity in Flux: In Search of Baïnounk
Recent fieldwork (Friederike Lpke 2008, Alexander Cobbinah 2009/10 (see also Cobbinah, this volume)) shows that the map, although essentially still valid, needs to be partially redrawn. In the northern language area around Niamone, the number of villages dominated by speakers of Banounk has decreased. In the south-west, Banounk Gubaher is now only spoken in one village, Djibonker, with closely related varieties in Djifangor and Djibelor. No new d…
The writing’s on the wall: Spaces for language-independent and language-based literacies
This article investigates what is commonly called multilingual writing. Based on case studies from Mali, and drawing on a number of West African settings, it argues that in fact, not all ‘multilingual’ writing is in effect multilingual. The article proposes a two-tiered classification of types of writing, based on linguistic properties of texts and the differing perspectives of writers and readers. This analysis contrasts writers’ intentions to w…
It’s a split, but is it unaccusativity: Two classes of intransitive verbs in Jalonke
Jalonke, a Mande language of Guinea, exhibits a formal split of intransitive verbs with respect to the possessive construction in which they appear. Whenever the single argument of a nominalized intransitive verb is linked to the possessor of the nominalized verb, an inalienable possessive construction is used with some verbs, and an alienable possessive construction with others. The inalienable possessive construction is also used for nominalize…
Smash it again, Sam’: Verbs of cutting and breaking in Jalonke
This paper investigates the semantic and syntactic properties of cutting and breaking verbs in Jalonke. Semantic features relevant for these Jalonke verbs are control of the effector over the locus of impact, subcategorization for specific manners/instruments, and the theme being a whole vs. already detached from an entity. The latter distinction is unattested in other languages. Syntactically, the verbs fall into two classes: cut verbs with a tr…
On giving, receiving, affecting and benefitting in Jalonke
The present article investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of verbs with optionally three participants in Jalonke. Jalonke, a variety of Yalunka, belongs to the Mande group of the Niger-Congo language stock and is spoken in and around Guinea (West Africa). In contrast to languages with ditransitive verbs, Jalonke has no verbs with three arguments. Rather, the third participant of the verbs in question is realized in a postpositional p…
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events
We examine universals and crosslinguistic variation in constraints on event segmentation. Previous typological studies have focused on segmentation into syntactic (Pawley 1987) or intonational units (Givón 1991). We argue that the correlation between such units and semantic/conceptual event representations is language-specific. As an alternative, we introduce the MACRO-EVENT PROPERTY (MEP): a construction has the MEP if it packages event represen…
Language and Identity in Flux: In Search of Baïnounk
Recent fieldwork (Friederike Lpke 2008, Alexander Cobbinah 2009/10 (see also Cobbinah, this volume)) shows that the map, although essentially still valid, needs to be partially redrawn. In the northern language area around Niamone, the number of villages dominated by speakers of Banounk has decreased. In the south-west, Banounk Gubaher is now only spoken in one village, Djibonker, with closely related varieties in Djifangor and Djibelor. No new d…
Multilingualism and Language Contact in West Africa: Towards a Holistic Perspective
Contemporary West Africa is characterized by extensive societal multilingualism going hand in hand with cultural hybridity. This situation type is characterized by a complex interaction between two or more languages in an individual's brain as well as in an entire society. The historical causes of the multilingual profile of this region lie in the succession of empires emerging in the area from 300 BCE onward and culminating in the Mali empire ar…
African(ist) perspectives on vitality: Fluidity, small speaker numbers, and adaptive multilingualism make vibrant ecologies (Response to Mufwene)
This paper addresses language vitality from an Africanist perspective. I identify central components for the paradigm Mufwene (2017) invites us to conceive: the investigation of communicative practices in language ecologies (rather than the study of a language), of fluid speech and its relation to imaginary reifications, of indexical functions of speech and language, and of language ideologies and the perspectives contained in them. I argue that …
The writing’s on the wall: Spaces for language-independent and language-based literacies
This article investigates what is commonly called multilingual writing. Based on case studies from Mali, and drawing on a number of West African settings, it argues that in fact, not all ‘multilingual’ writing is in effect multilingual. The article proposes a two-tiered classification of types of writing, based on linguistic properties of texts and the differing perspectives of writers and readers. This analysis contrasts writers’ intentions to w…
Comparing Rural Multilingualism in Lowland South America and Western Africa
This article explores and compares multilingualism in small-scale societies of Western Africa and Lowland South America. All are characterized by complex and extensive multilingual practices and regional exchange systems established before the onset of globalization and its varying impacts. Through overviews of the general historical and organizational features of regions, vignette case studies, and a discussion of transformative processes affect…
Patterns and perspectives shape perceptions: Epistemological and methodological reflections on the study of small-scale multilingualism
Aims and objectives: This paper captures social dimensions of language in highly diverse small-scale multilingual contexts that appear to pose challenges for (socio)linguistic description and documentation. I focus on the seeming contradiction of monolingual imaginations of places with heterogeneous and multilingual inhabitants, on great fluidity and variability of language use and the concomitant limits of reification-based identification of cod…
Liliema: A sustainable educational programme promoting African languages and multilingualism according to the social realities of speakers and writers
In recent (socio)linguistic research there is a growing awareness that rural, small-scale multilingualism as the most widespread communicative setting across the globe. Yet, literacy programmes accepting and incorporating this diversity are non-existent. LILIEMA is a unique educational programme currently based in Senegal that addresses the need for enabling learners to use their entire repertoire, nurturing, and validating local knowledges and s…
African Languages in Finland: Adding Multicolored Yarn to an Old Ryijy
This article presents an overview of African languages used in Finland today. Although it addresses the Nordic region's colonial past, the focus of the article is on recent immigration to Finland, which took off in the 1990s. A discrepancy exists between the linguistic profiles of African migrants as captured in official census data (which are limited to presumed native language) and the patterns of multilingualism known in migrants’ countries of…
Linguistics (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Multilingualism (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (3 works)