Research Interests

• Semantics of grammatical systems
• Grammaticalization
• Linguistic typology
• Language description
• Chadic and Afroasiatic languages

Current Projects

• Sponsored:
• Grammars of Wandala and Giziga (with Erin Shay). Sponsored by NSF.
• Genetic and linguistic relations in Northern Cameroon (with John Hewitt, of the IBS). Sponsored by Jane and Charles Butcher Foundation.
• Chadic Syntactic Typology. Initiated under Humboldt Research Award
• Not Sponsored:
• Discovering and proving meaning in language
• Afro-Asiatic languages. (edited with Erin Shay). Book under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Teaching

• Semantics & Pragmatics
• Syntax
• Diachronic Linguistics
• Language Structures
• Field Methods
• Grammaticalization
• Introduction to Linguistics

List of publications

Awards and Honors

Northern Cameroon landscapes

Boulder landscapes

Contact Information

Zygmunt.Frajzyngier@Colorado.EDU
Department of Linguistics, Box 295
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0295
Office: Hellems 296
Phone: 303-492-6959
Fax: 303-492-4416