Roger Blench
Roger Blench (born 1953) is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and remains based in Cambridge, England. He actively researches and publishes, although he works as a private consultant rather than in academia.
A noted expert in African lingusitics,[1] Blench's main area of linguistic interest is the Niger–Congo language family although he has also researched the Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic families. He has also written about other language families and endangered languages. He has published extensively on the relationship between linguistics and archaeology, principally in Africa, but more recently also in East Asia. He is currently engaged in a long-term project to document the languages of Central Nigeria.
He collaborated extensively with the late Professor Kay Williamson, who died in January 2005, and is now a trustee of the Kay Williamson Educational Fund, which exists both to publish the unpublished material left by Kay Williamson and to promote the study of Nigerian languages. A series of publications supported by the trust is under way with Rüdiger Köppe Verlag in Cologne.
Blench has also conducted research and evaluations of international development activities worldwide, as a consultant and formerly as a research fellow of the Overseas Development Institute in London.
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- 1992. Crozier, D. H. & Blench, R. M. An Index of Nigerian Languages. Abuja: Language Development Centre; Ilorin: University of Ilorin; Dallas: SIL. ISBN 0-88312-611-7
- 1997. Blench, R. M. & Spriggs, M., eds. Archaeology and Language I: theoretical and methodological orientations. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11760-7
- 1998. Blench, R. M. & Spriggs, M., eds. Archaeology and Language II: correlating archaeological and linguistic hypotheses. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11761-5
- 1999a. Blench, R. M. & Spriggs, M., eds. Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, languages, and texts. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10054-2
- 1999b. Blench, R. M. & Spriggs, M., eds. Archaeology and Language, IV: language change and cultural transformation. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11786-0
- 2000. Blench, R. M. & MacDonald, K. C., eds. The Origin and Development of African Livestock. London: University College Press.
- 2005. Sagart, L.; Blench, R. M. & Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia, eds. The Peopling of East Asia. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-32242-1
- 2006. Archaeology, Language, and the African Past. AltaMira Press. ISBN 0-759-10465-4
- 2008. Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia; Blench, R. M. et al., eds. Human Migrations in Continental East Asia and Taiwan: matching archaeology, linguistics and genetics. London: Routledge.
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- ^ Review: [untitled] John Hewson Reviewed work(s): Archaeology, Language, and the African Past by Roger Blench Canadian Journal of African Studies Vol. 41, No. 3, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380107
