Allen Asiimwe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of African Languages, School of Languages, Literature and Communication. Allen Asiimwe is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of African Languages, School of Languages, Literature and Communication at Makerere University. She is passionate about documenting and analysing linguistic aspects of the Runyankore-Rukiga language cluster spoken in Uganda but also documentation and preservation of cultural heritage of the people who speak these languages. She recently collected and documented Rukiga personal names and conducted a linguistic analysis of these names. She has also analysed traditional religious beliefs of the people of the former Kitara kingdom. Such efforts are aimed at fostering preservation of cultural heritage for posterity, which are threatened by the current trends of globalisation. Allen has experience in collaborative research. She was one of the collaborators on the Bantu Syntax and Information Structure project (https://bantusyntaxinformationstructure.com/; 2017-2023). She is currently part of the team that is working on a project under UNA EUROPA aimed at enhancing scholarship in linguistics in Eastern Africa.
The expression of information structure in Rukiga Journal Article
In: The expression of information structure in Bantu, pp. 335–405, 2025.
Chapter 3 The structure, distribution and function of demonstratives in Runyankore-Rukiga Book Chapter
In: pp. 43–83, 2024, ISBN: 2511-7726.
Linguistics and Language The Promise of Linguistics and Language The Promise of Studies in Africa Book
2024.
The structure, distribution and function of demonstratives in Runyankore-Rukiga Journal Article
In: Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches, pp. 43–83, 2024.
Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations Journal Article
In: Linguistique et langues africaines, no. 9 (1), 2023.
Determiner spreading in Rukiga Journal Article
In: Linguistics, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 1285–1339, 2023.
Challenges to the acquisition of literacy in rural primary schools in Northern Uganda Journal Article
In: Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Southern Africa, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 38–62, 2020.
The syntax of relative clause constructions in Runyankore-Rukiga: A typological perspective Journal Article
In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, vol. 2019, no. 58, pp. 131–154, 2019.