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Mr. Simon Msovela

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Assistant Lecturer

Department
Languages and Literature

Biography

Biography

Mr. Simon Simbahomile Msovela is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literature and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE). Msovela holds an MA in Linguistics and a BA in Education from the University of Dar es Salaam. He is also a PhD student in African Languages at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research interests are Bantu morphosyntax, Information structure, Onomastics, and Language documentation

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Lusekelo, Amani, van der Wal Jenneke, & Msovela, Simon. (2025). The Expression of Information Structure in Kinyakyusa. In Jenneke van der Wal (Ed.), The Expression of Information Structure in Bantu (pp. 407-452). Berlin: Language Science Press.

Msovela, Simon, van der Wal, Jenneke, & Lusekelo Amani. (2023). Subject Inversion in Kinyakyusa. Africana Linguistica, 29, 157 - 178.