Professor Dick Hayward

Dick Hayward has worked for over 30 years mostly on the minority languages of the Horn of Africa, including the following languages that fall within the severely endangered category: Afar, Irob-Saho, Arbore, Bayso, S'aamakko, Zayse, Koyra (Koorete), D'irayta. Additionally he has encouraged primary field research on endangered languages (often as long-distance supervisor) by academics working on their own languages (e.g. Majoid, Gonga, Maale and Hamar in South West Ethiopia, Kunama and Nara in North West Eritrea, the creole Tigre on the Dahlak Islands, Lacustrine Ometo in South Ethiopia). As part of these endeavours he arranged funding through DANIDA to bring to SOAS in 1998-9 14 native Eritrean language-developers for training in relevant linguistic areas. He has (unsuccessfully) sought funding in the past to document some of the 130 indigenous languages of the Horn of Africa and is currently engaged on preparing dictionaries for Gamo and Afar.

Recent publications:

Hayward, Richard 1998 "The Origins of the North Ometo verb agreement systems". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 19:93-111

Hayward, Richard 1998 "Vowel reduction, tone and nominal declension in D'irayta" pp.503-519 in Mark Janse (ed) Productivity and Creativity: Studies in General and Descriptive Linguistics in honour of E.M Uhlenbeck. (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 116) Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin, New York

Hayward, Richard 1999 "East Ometo verb paradigms: the grammaticalization of a syntactic pattern" SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics Vol 9: 301-316

Hayward, Richard 1999 "Is there a metric for convergence?" in Colin Renfrew, April McMahon and Larry Trask (eds) Time Depth in Historical Linguistics Vol 2 (papers in the prehistory of languages), 621-640. The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Hayward, Richard 2000 "Afroasiatic" Chapter 4 in Heine and Nurse (eds) African Languages: an Introduction CUP

Hayward, Richard 2000 "Observations on tone in the Higir dialect of Nara" in Rainer Vossen, Angelika Mietzner, and Antje Meissner (eds) "Mehr als nur Worte…" Afrikanistische Beiträge zum 25. Gerburtstag von Franz Rottland. 247-267 Rüdiger Köppe Verlag: Köln

Hayward, Richard and John Abraha Ashkaba 1999 "Kunama" Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Vol 29,2: 179-185

Hayward, Richard and Yoichi Tsuge 1998 "Concerning case in Omotic" Afrika and Ubersee 81,1: 21-38