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Julius Taji

Julius John Taji

Senior Lecturer

College of Humanities

Foreign Languages and Linguistics

Biography

Dr Julius Taji is a Senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He holds a PhD (Linguistics), an M.A. (Linguistics), and a B.A. (Education) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His areas of specialisation include morphosyntax of Bantu languages, lexicography and sign language linguistics. 

 

Research Interest

Morphosyntax of Bantu languages, lexicography and sign language linguistics

Contacts

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Projects

  1. Multiscalar gendered temporalities in southeastern African history: Oral voices, lived and inherited pasts, and the deep testimony of time in language (collaboration with University of Helsinki, Finland), 2024-2027.
  2. Grammatical variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, UK., 2021-2025. This is a collaboration with SOAS University of London, University of Essex and Kenyatta University), 2021-2025
  3. Linguistic and sociocultural aspects of plant names in Chiyao, funded by AHP, 2020-2021

 

 

Publications

Forthcoming

Taji, Julius (In print). Wild plants of the Yao. Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaam University Press (DUP).

Taji, Julius. (forthcoming). The scope and functions of the stative extension in Swahili. Cogent Arts & Humanities.

 

2024

Taji, Julius. (2024). A morphosemantic analysis of personal nicknames in Swahili. Nomina Africana, 38 (1-2), 43-55.

Taji, Julius. (2024). Demonstratives in Chiyao: An analysis of their form, distribution and functions. In Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, Gastor Mapunda & Lutz Marten (eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches, 17–41. Berlin: Language Science Press.

 

2023

Gibson, H., Kula, N., Marten, L. and Taji, J., (2023). Suffix order restrictions in Bantu. In: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology. Editors: Ackema, P., Bendjaballaha, S., Bonet, E. and A. Fábregas. Wiley Blackwell. 1- 33. 9781119693574.

 

2022

Riedel, Kristina, and Taji, Julius. (2022). Animacy-based concord in Chiyao. South African Journal of African Languages, 42(2), 190-199, DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2022.2094039.

 

Edelsten, P.,  Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, Gastor Mapunda, Lutz Marten, and Julius Taji. (2022). Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa. Journal of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, 1(1), 1-22.

 

2020

 

Taji, Julius. (2020). Definiteness in Chiyao. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 9(2), 44-64.

 

Taji, Julius. 2020. Verb stem influence on object marking in Chiyao. Southern African

Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 38(4), 351-355.

 

Gibson, Hannah, Gastor Mapunda, Lutz Marten and Julius Taji. (2020). Ulinganishi wa mofolojia na sintaksia baina ya lugha

19 za Kibantu za Afrika Mashariki. Kiswahili Journal, Vol. 82, 1-13.

 

2019

Gibson, Hannah, Gastor Mapunda, Lutz Marten, Sheena Shah and Julius Taji. (2019). Variation in double object marking in

Swahili. Swahili Forum 26, 142-165.

 

Taji, Julius. (2019). Discourse roles of particles in Chiyao. Journal of University of Namibia Language Centre 4, 1-14.

 

2017

Taji, Julius. 2017. Yao-English-Swahili dictionary. Dar es Salaam. Languages of Tanzania Project.

Taji, Julius and Abel Mreta. (2017). The structure of a Shimwela noun phrase. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 8(1), 20-41

Taji, Julius. (2017). Object marking strategies in Chiyao. In Proceedings of the 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, 227-242.

 

2015

Taji, Julius and Abel Mreta (2015). Subject-verb agreement in Chiyao conjoined nounphrases. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 8(2), 78-88.

 

2014

Taji, Julius. (2014). Grammatical relations in Chiyao. Journal of the Korean Association of African Studies, 42, 149-177.