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Linda Gerlach

Education

2009 – present	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany PhD candidate: Documentation of ‡Hȍãn with a focus on contact influence
2008 – 2009	Leiden University, The Netherlands MA African Linguistics Thesis: A Grammatical Sketch of Rwa (Bantu E61)
2005 – 2008	University of Leipzig, Germany Linguistics and African Studies (Magister)
2003 – 2005	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Linguistics and German Studies (Magister)
1993 – 2003	Hugo-Junkers- Gymnasium Mönchengladbach, Germany
1990 – 1993	Franz-Meyers-Gymnasium Mönchengladbach, Germany

Fieldwork experience

2011	Botswana (Kweneng District)
2010	Botswana (Kweneng District)
2009	Botswana (Kweneng District)
2008	Arusha, Tanzania in preparation of MA thesis; partly funded by the Leiden University Fund (LUF)

Languages

German	native
English, Swahili	fluent
Czech, Dutch	intermediate
French, Zulu, Hausa, Rwa, Tswana, Japanese	basic knowledge

Talks

Sep 2012	Joined presentation with Falko Berthold at the EuroBABEL final conference in Leiden "Contact influences on ǂHoan"
Jul 2011	Joined presentation with Falko Berthold at the 20th International Conference of Historical Linguistics in Osaka "Spatial terms in ǂHoan"
Dec 2010	Guest lecture at the Department of Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf "Possessivekonstruktionen im ǂHoan" (together with Falko Berthold)
Jan 2010	Presentation at the Department of African Studies, University of Leipzig ‡Hoan – A Field Research Report (together with Falko Berthold)

Publications

Berthold, Falko & Gerlach, Linda (to appear): Serial Verb Constructions in ǂHoan from a historical perspective. In: F. Berthold, A.-M. Fehn & M. Ernszt-Shaw (eds): Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Khoisan Languages and Linguistics Riezlern IV.

Gerlach, Linda & Berthold, Falko (to appear): ǂHoan spatial terms from a historical and areal perspective. In: Güldemann, Tom & Fehn, Anne-Maria (eds.) Beyond ‘Khoisan’: historical linguistic relations in the Kalahari Basin. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Pickrell, Joseph K., Patterson, Nick, Barbieri, Chiara, Berthold, Falko, Gerlach, Linda, Lipson, Mark, Loh, Po-Ru, Lachance, Joseph, Güldemann, Tom, Kure, Blesswell, Wata Mpoloka, Sununguko, Nakagawa, Hirosi, Naumann, Christfried, Mountain, Joanna, Bustamante, Carlos, Berger, Bonnie, Tishkoff, Sarah, Henn, Brenna, Stoneking, Mark, Reich, David & Brigitte Pakendorf (2012): The genetic prehistory of southern Africa. Nature Communications 3:1143. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2140 (published 16 October 2012)

Gerlach, L. & F. Berthold: The sociolinguistic situation of ǂHoan, a moribund 'Khoisan' language of Botswana. In: Afrikanistik Online 8, 1-16 (2011).