Ruth Kramer
Associate Professor
Washington, DC, 20057-1036
Email: rtk8@georgetown.edu
Office Hours: M 1:30-3
Office hours held over Zoom in Fall 2020 (email me for the link)
Research
My research is primarily in theoretical syntax and morphology, and I have particular interests in grammatical gender, number, syncretisms, clitic doubling, and the fine line between prepositions and case markers. The languages I specialize in are Amharic (Ethio-Semitic) and Ancient Egyptian (the language written with hieroglyphs), both of which are members of the Afroasiatic language family.
I gave a non-specialist talk on grammatical gender at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, Norway in the spring of 2020. Here are the slides.
In the fall of 2019, I spearheaded the organization of the 3rd Afranaph Project Development Workshop, funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
For detailed information about my past and present research activities, see my C.V. and this list of downloadable papers and handouts.
Teaching and Advising
I greatly enjoy teaching, and please see a list of past and present courses (being) taught.
Contact Information, etc.
If you need to reach me, here's how.
For the curious: more information on how I began studying Egyptian, and what I'm up to when I am not doing linguistics.