Ms Hlumela Mkabile
Position
Lecturer
Department
Linguistics and Language Practice
Address
Department Linguistics and Language Practice
Internal Box 27
UFS
Telephone
Office
Stef Coetzee Building
Information

Short CV

Hlumela Mkabile is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State. She holds a Master of Arts in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (with distinction), Bachelor of Arts Honours in Linguistics and Applied Languages Studies, and a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University. Before joining the department, Hlumela was a Junior Lecturer at the University of South Africa (UNISA), working on two honours modules, one on language teaching methods module and the other on language planning in education. Her main research interests are centered around the morphosyntax and semantics of the applicative and causative in Bantu languages.

She is currently on the Executive Committee of the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society (SALALS) as a Linguistics convenor, and she is also a co-organiser for the Southern African Linguistics Network (SALN), which hosts monthly online seminars in African linguistics.

Hlumela is a team member of the project titled Decolonising syntax teaching materials for South African higher education, which is part of the Digital Humanities Open Educational Resources (OER) Champions Initiative. She is also a team member of the project Agreement Mismatches in Experimental Syntax: from Slavic to Bantu

Courses Presented

HLIN1514 Introduction to linguistics

HLIN2644 Africa as a linguistic landscape

HLIN3738 Syntax and phonology

LINS Syntax (honours)

 


FACULTY CONTACT

T: +27 51 401 2240 or humanities@ufs.ac.za

Postgraduate:
Marizanne Cloete: +27 51 401 2592

Undergraduate:
Neliswa Emeni-Tientcheu: +27 51 401 2536
Phyllis Masilo: +27 51 401 9683

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