Nancy Chongo Kula
Prof. Dr.Corresponding Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences abroad since 2026
- Professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University
Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-8323-2573
Research Areas:
- Linguistics and Literature
- Comparative linguistics
- Phonology
- African studies
- African Linguistics
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- De Nederlandse Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap (AVT)
- Linguistics Association of East Africa
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain
- The Philological Society
- The Royal Africa Society
Selected Publications:
- Marten, Lutz, Ellen Hurst-Harish, Nancy C. Kula, & Jochen Zeller (eds.) (2025) The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (81 chapters).
- Kula, Nancy C. & Lee Bickmore (2015) Phrasal Phonology in Copperbelt Bemba. Phonology 32(1): 147-176.
- Kula, Nancy C. (2021) Developing an areal view of intonation in Eastern Bantu. Special issue of the Journal of Law and Social Sciences 3.1: 1-39. https://journals.unza.zm/index.php/JLSS/article/view/446
- Kula, Nancy C. (2017) Reduction in remoteness distinctions and reconfiguration in the Bemba past tense. Transactions of the Philological Society 115.1: 27-57.
- Bickmore, Lee & Nancy C. Kula (2013) Ternary spread and the OCP in Copperbelt Bemba. Studies in African Linguistics 42(2): 101-132.