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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 BantuHLIN1514 Introduction to linguistics
HLIN2644 Africa as a linguistic landscape
HLIN3738 Syntax and phonology
LINS Syntax (honours)