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	Center for Multilingual Education, Osaka University
Research Fields	I specialize in the sociolinguistics of Bantu languages. I have conducted descriptive research on two sub-varieties of the Ma’a (also called Mbugu) language spoken in the West Usambara massif area in Tanzania in perspective of contacts of languages. During my research this summer (2016), I discovered a language that was different from what I had described in the past and which appeared to be a mixture of the two varieties. I am currently considering how to study and analyze it.
Main Works	Abe, Maya. forthcoming. “Relative clause constructions in Ma’a/Mbugu.” Selected Proceedings of 8th World Congress of African Linguistics. Abe, Maya. 2016. “Grammaticalization of tense and aspect markers in Ma’a/Mbugu.” 46th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (Leiden University). Abe, Maya. 2016. “Counterfactual conditional sentences in Mbugu.” 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages (University of Helsinki). Abe, Maya 2015. “Relative clause constructions in Ma’a/Mbugu.” 8th World Congress of African Lingustics (Kyoto University). Abe, Maya. 2011. “Applicative and double object constructions in Mbugu/Ma’a.” Berlin Bantu Conference (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Maya Abe