Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
Name: Riham Abudonia
Email: rihamabudonia@cu.edu.eg
Academic employment
September 2013
Lecturer in Luganda and Linguistics at the Department of African
Languages, Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University.
2009-2013
Assistant-Lecturer at the Department of African Languages, Institute of
African Research and Studies, Cairo University.
2003 - 2009
Teaching assistant at the Department of African Languages, Institute of
African Research and Studies, Cairo University.
Education:
2013
PhD in Linguistics, Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo
University. PhD thesis entitled ‘The syntax of Luganda NPs’. Defended 3
September 2013.
2009
MA in Linguistics, Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo
University.
2003-2005
Diploma of African Studies, Institute of African Research and Studies,
Cairo University.
2001
BA, Faculty of Arts, English Department, Cairo University.
Academic activities:
April 2018
“Luganda applicatives: a Dynamic Syntax approach”. Talk presented at
the 2nd Dynamic Syntax Conference, University of Edinburgh.
April 2017
“Passive strategies and argument structure in Luganda:
a Dynamic Syntax account”. Talk presented at the 1st Dynamic Syntax
Conference, SOAS University of London.
August 2011
“Overt and non-overt NPs in Luganda”. Talk presented at the 41st
Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University
Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands.
August 2008
Travel grant from Le Centre Français de Culture et Coopération to
get a diploma in French from L'Institut de Touraine in Tours, France.
May 2008-June 2008 Visiting Researcher (SOAS, University of London).
Courses Taught:
General Linguistics
Semantics
Theories of Syntax
Language Groups in Africa
The Language Situation in Africa
Luganda as a second language
Publications:
Abudonia, Riham. (2014). Overt and non-overt NPs in Luganda. International Journal of
Language Studies, 8(1), 33-48.
Abudonia, Riham. (2014). The syntax of Luganda adjectives. Egyptian Journal of Linguistics
and Translation, 1(1), 33-44.
Abudonia, Riham. 2012. The internal structure of Luganda NPs. Journal of the Faculty of
Languages and Translation 2(2), 333-376. [in Arabic]
