Deo Kawalya holds a PhD in African Languages and Cultures from Ghent University in Belgium. He is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills at Makerere University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, modality, evidentiality and lexicography. He has previously researched on different aspects of modality in Luganda and West Nyanza Bantu languages, by mainly analysing corpus data and, more recently, he has undertaken projects aimed at building corpora for different Ugandan languages.
Qualifications:
PhD in African Languages and Cultures
School:
Languages Literature and Communication
Department:
African Languages
Email:
kawalyad@gmail.com
Office Physical Address:
Languages (LB14)
Research interests:
Corpus linguistics
Modality
Evidentiality
Lexicography
Membership to Professional Bodies:
Member of the Language Association of Eastern Africa
Member of the World Congress of African Languages
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
LIN1101: Introduction to the Study of Languages
ELS2111: English Articulatory Phonetics
LIN2211: Language Description and Documentation
LIN3112: Terminology Development
LIN3210: Lexicology and Lexicography
LIN3211: Comparative and Historical Linguistics
Doctoral Students Supervised:
2
Master’s Students Supervised:
7
Grants:
2020-2021: Towards an alphaconceptual dictionary in Luganda for the promotion of a reading culture in Uganda [Funded by MakRiF]
2020-2021: The expression evidentiality in Luganda [Funded by the American Council of Learned Societies]
2020: Towards a corpus-based approach for describing Ugandan languages [Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]
Publication:
- Kawalya, Deo (2024). Evidential Strategies in Luganda. In L. Mugumya, A. Asiimwe, M. E. Ssentanda, W. G. Wagaba & F. Bayiga (Eds.), The Promise of Linguistics and Language Studies in Africa (pp. 223-243)
- Nakijoba, Sarah and Deo Kawalya (2024). Outcomes of the Contact between Luganda and English Pragmatic Markers. Journal of Humanities, 32.
- Kawalya, Deo (2023). The structure and semantics of the Luganda near-synonym evidential particles nti and mbu. Studies in African Linguistics, 52(14).
- Kawalya, Deo, Koen Bostoen, and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (2021). A diachronic corpus-driven study of the expression of possibility in Luganda (Bantu, JE15). International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 26(3), 336-369
- Kawalya, Deo, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, and Koen Bostoen (2019). A corpus-driven study of the expression of necessity in Luganda (Bantu, JE15). Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37(4), 361-381.
- Kawalya, Deo, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, and Koen Bostoen (2018). Reconstructing the Origins of the Luganda (JE15) Modal Auxiliaries -sóból- and -yînz-: A Historical-Comparative Study Across the West Nyanza Bantu Cluster. South African Journal of African Languages, 38(1), 13–25.
- Kawalya, Deo, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, and Koen Bostoen (2018). From Conditionality to Modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15): A Synchronic and Diachronic Corpus Analysis of the Verbal Prefix -andi-. Journal of Pragmatics, 127, 84–106.
- Marlo, M., Nabirye, M., Kawalya, D. & De Schryver, G.-M. (2017). A sketch of Lower Nyole tone. Africana Lingustica, 23, 215-257.
- Kawalya, D., Bostoen, K., & De Schryver, G.-M. (2014). Diachronic semantics of the modal verb -sóból- in Luganda: A corpus-driven approach. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 19(1), 60-93.
- Kawalya, D. & De Schryver, G.-M. (2013). Introducing a New Lexicographical Modal: AlphaConceptual+ (and How it Could be Applied to Dictionaries for Luganda). Lexikos, 23, 172-200.
- 2007: Enkuluze y’Oluganda ey’e Makerere [A monolingual dictionary of Luganda]. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. (Compiler)
- Kawalya, Deo (2004). Kiswahili Loan Words in Luganda. Kampala: Makerere University.
