Introduction
Francis Katamba (b. 1947) is a Ugandan-born British linguist. He is currently an emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on English phonology and morphology, morphological theory, phonological theory, and African linguistics.
Career
Katamba has been a professor at Lancaster University since 2000.
Research
Katamba's research focuses on English phonology and morphology.
He is credited for his work on inflectional phrase and Luganda tones.
Katamba claimed that exocentric compounds are headless - in other words they do not contain an element that can function as a semantic head in Morphology in 1993.
In his book, entitled Morphology and published in 2005, Katamba extended his analysis to other areas in linguistics to have a grasp of the morphology of words, but also a better understanding of the relationship betweenmorphology, phonology and semantics, in addition to an overview of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.
In a chapter on back-formation, published in the Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition) in 2006, he investigated the most productive type of back-formations, hypocoristics.
Publications
Katamba has publications in several major journals such as English Language and Linguistics.
Katamba has written numerous books entitled Introduction to Phonology (Longman, 1989), English Words (2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2005); Morphology (co-author John Stonham, London: Palgrave. 2nd ed. 2006) and he has edited several others, including Frontiers of Phonology, co-edited with Jacques Durand (Longman, 1995); Bantu Phonology and Morphology (Lincom Europa, Munich, 1995); Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction 3rd ed. (edited with William O'Grady and Michael Dobrovolsky, London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997) and Morphology: Critical Concepts. (London: Routledge. 6 volumes, 2004).