Brent Henderson, University of Florida

Current Research:
My new research project is a three-year plan to document the Chimiini language with a reference grammar, collection of texts, and digitally archived material. The project is funded by the NEH via the NEH/NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program (ID #PD-50009-09). Chimiini is a Bantu language of Somalia with fewer than 15,000 speakers, most of whom are scattered across the globe in refugee communities due to Somalia's continuing civil unrest. This summer I will be collecting data in Atlanta, GA.

In addition, I continue to work on issues concerning agreement and movement in Bantu languages and have recently also worked on object marking in Tigre, an Ethio-Semitic language.