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.
Outcomes of the contact between Luganda and English pragmatic markers Journal Article
In: Journal of Humanities, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 7–33, 2024.
The structure and semantics of the Luganda near-synonym evidential particles nti and mbu Journal Article
In: Studies in African Linguistics, vol. 52, no. Supplement 14, pp. 47–59, 2023.
A diachronic corpus-driven study of the expression of possibility in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) Journal Article
In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 336–369, 2021.
A corpus-driven study of the expression of necessity in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) Journal Article
In: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 361–381, 2019.
From conditionality to modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15): A synchronic and diachronic corpus analysis of the verbal prefix-andi Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 127, pp. 84–106, 2018.
Reconstructing the origins of the Luganda (JE15) modal auxiliaries-sóból-and-y^ınz-: A historical-comparative study across the West Nyanza Bantu cluster Journal Article
In: South African Journal of African Languages, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 13–25, 2018.
A sketch of Lower Nyole tone Journal Article
In: Africana Linguistica, vol. 23, pp. 215–257, 2017.
The expression of possibility in West Nyanza Bantu languages Proceedings Article
In: 8th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL8), 2015.
Diachronic semantics of the modal verb-sóból-in Luganda: A corpus-driven approach Journal Article
In: 2014.
Introducing a new lexicographical model: alphaconceptual+ (and how it could be applied to dictionaries for Luganda) Journal Article
In: Lexikos, vol. 23, pp. 172–200, 2013.