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.