Felix Ameka#
| Membership Number: | 5824 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/felix-ameka#tab-1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020-12-01 Professor and CIPL/CIPSH Chair of Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity in the world, Leiden University
- 2019-02-01 Universitair Hoofddocent (with Ius Promovendus), Leiden University
- 2017-03-01 Universitair Hoofddocent, Leiden University
- 2000-01-01 - 2017-12-31 Associate Researcher and Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- 1998-01-01 - 1999-12-31 Senior Scientific Research Staff, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (on secondment)
- 1991-01-01 - 2017-02-28 University Lecturer, African Linguistics, Languages and Cultures, Leiden University
- 1989-02-01 - 1989-12-31 Senior Tutor, Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1987-10-01 - 1988-03-31 Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon
- 1987-02-01 - 1987-06-30 Lecturer, School of Australian Linguistics, Darwin Institute of Technology, Batchelor
- 1980-11-01 - 1984-03-01 Assistant Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon
Fields of Scholarship
- Multilingualism
- Documentary linguistics
- Pragmatics
- Descriptive linguistics
- Anthropological linguistics
- Semantics
- West African languages
- Sociolinguistics of development
- Contact linguistics
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Corresponding Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
- 2015 Fellow, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (FGA)
