Galen Sibanda

(He/Him)

sibanda1@msu.edu
5173530746
Wells Hall B380

Assistant Professor

Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures

Biography

Galen Sibanda is an Assistant Professor of African Languages and the Coordinator of the African Languages Program. His research interests include language pedagogy and the linguistic structure of Bantu languages, particularly phonology, morphology and the syntax-semantics interface. He previously taught African languages at the University of Zimbabwe, University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University.

Works

Sibanda, Galen. 2022. Teaching African Languages Through Distance Education, JALTA 10. 20-36.

Sibanda, Galen, Deo Ngonyani, Jonathan Choti & Annie Biersteker (Eds). (2022). Descriptive & Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 49th Conference on African Linguistics. Language Sciences Press.

Sibanda, Galen. 2016. The Ndebele Applicative Construction. In Doris L. Payne, Sara Pacchiarotti & Mokaya Bosire (eds). Diversity in African Languages: Selected papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Language Sciences Press. Chapter 17.

Hyman, Larry M., Sharon Inkelas & Galen Sibanda. 2009. Morphosyntactic Correspondence in Bantu Reduplication. In Hanson, Kristin & Sharon Inkelas (eds). The nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 273-309.

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow – Kenya, 2023.

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