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Gladys Guarisma

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Gladys Guarisma
Guarisma (right) in 1997
Born(1938-08-30)30 August 1938
Died12 February 2022(2022-02-12) (aged 83)
OccupationLinguist

Gladys Guarisma (30 August 1938 – 12 February 2022) was a Venezuelan linguist.[1] She worked at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and was one of the pioneers of African linguistics.

Biography

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Guarisma joined the CNRS and was recruited by Jacqueline M.C. Thomas to join her research team, which later became known as LACITO. She was known as a specialist of Bantu languages in Cameroon, such as the Bafia language, of which she published a phonology in 1967. In 1992, she published a thesis titled Le bafia (rì-kpāɂ).[2] She also studied the Vute language, on which she published a study in 1978. After her retirement, she continued her scientific activities for many years.[3]

Guarisma died on 12 February 2022, at the age of 83.[1]

Publications

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  • Dialectométrie lexicale de quelques parlers bantous de la zone A, in: La méthode dialectométrique appliquée aux langues africaines (1986)
  • La Méthode dialectométrique appliquée aux langues africaines (1986)
  • Le Bafia (r-kpâɂ) (1992)
  • Complexité morphologique, simplicité syntaxique : le cas du bafia, langue bantoue (A 50) du Cameroun (2000)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gladys Guarisma (1938-2022) – Hommages". Les Carnets du LACITO (in French).
  2. ^ Guarisma, Gladys (1992). Le bafia (r-kpâɂ:) (Thèse d'État en Lettres) (in French). Paris: Paris Descartes University.
  3. ^ "Gladys GUARISMA". CNRS (in French). Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.