UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
DAR ES SALAAM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (DUCE)

KURIA MDOE MICHAEL

Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literature, Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education
Education:

Bachelor of Education in Arts, University of Dodoma, MA (Linguistics) and PhD (Linguistics), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Teaching:

Undergraduate Courses Taught

CL 106: Communication Skills for Social Sciences,

LL 101: Introduction to Linguistic Structure,

LL 103: General Phonetics,

LL 201: Linguistic Theory,

LL 205: The Structure of a Non-Bantu Language,

LL 305: Bantu Language Structure

Postgraduate Courses Taught

ML 631: Advanced Phonology

ML 650: Research Methods for Linguists

Research:

Nilo-Saharan Linguistics, Cognitive Semantic, Onomastics and Public Speaking

Projects:

  • Datooga Lexical Grammar of Motion Project 2018-2021 with the duties of documenting Nouns in Datooga in Flex and Elan format
  • The Ethnobotany of the Datooga Speakers (2022-2024)- A project funded by the University of Dar es Salaam

Publications:

Mdoe, K. 2020. Semantics, Morphology and Gender Marking in Datooga Personal Names.

            Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 14(2) 129-150.

Mdoe, K. (2023) The Integration of Nouns from English and Kiswahili into the Grammar

of Datooga Language Spoken in Tanzania. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 12(1) 67-79.

Mdoe, K. (2024) Onomatopoeia in Datooga Nouns. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 13(1) 90-105.

Mdoe, K. (2024) Gender in Datooga. South Africa Journal of African Languages, 44(2) 188-193.

Mdoe, K. (2024) Compounding in Datooga Nouns. SKASSE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics,

            21(2) 18-38.