Maarten Mous
Professor Emeritus African Linguistics
- Name
- Prof.dr. M.P.G.M. Mous
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- m.p.g.m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5867-5180
Africa is a lively continent full of vibrant optimism; it is young and dynamic and at same time the place of origin of mankind. Language is the key to a deeper understanding of its people. What fascinates me in linguistic research is that the method of the search for system in language by necessity involves contact with people and a confrontation with different views and attitudes. Language description requires an understanding of the context within which it is spoken and the wider culture. A solid linguistic analysis may seem straightforward but constantly requires openness to the unexpected.
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LUF lustrum grants: research into lethal violence and deaf families in Africa
PhD students
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Cozy Amenorvi
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Yosephin Apriastuti Rahayu
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Michela Araújo Ribeiro
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Kodjo Azoti
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Amanda Delgado Galvan -
Hillebrand Dijkstra
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Dan Duke
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Timothy Hadjah -
Bradley Harvey Sr
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Ria Huijgen-Koolen
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Rosa Maria de Lima Ribeiro
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Lisa van der Mark -
Gregory McLean
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Kijjali Nzogi
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Vikalp Ashiqehind Ravikumar
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Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed Ali -
Yanan Wang
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Yaqian Wang
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Rachelle Wenger
Research
My research is clustered around four themes: (1) Cushitic languages, (2) Language and Identity, (3) Diathesis and derivation, and (4) Bantu languages. My research on Cushitic languages consists of the description of (aspects of) grammar, lexicon and verbal arts of Iraqw ( Tanzania), Alagwa (Tanzania), Konso (Ethiopia) and Somali. I am working on the history of the South Cushitic languages and on a typological overview of Cushitic. My research on Language and Identity derives from my interest in Creole languages and started seriously with a study of the mixed language Ma’a/Mbugu and continued with a typological study of African urban youth languages. My interest in morphology is centred around the study of valency changing verbal derivations such as causatives, middles and passives in Iraqw, Konso, Tunen, and Seereer, and comparatively in Africa. The Bantu languages that I have published on are Tunen and Nyokon (Cameroon), Mbugu, Pare, and Mbugwe (all Tanzania). I have started to work on Seereer (Atlantic, Senegal) and I have done some work on Seme (Kru) and Toussian (Gur) in Burkina Faso.
Completed PhD supervision (the co-promotores mentioned are the main supervisors): Maud Devos A Grammar of Makwe (co-promotor); Graziano Savà A Grammar of Ts'amakko; Christian Rapold Towards a Grammar of Benchnon; František Kratochvíl A Grammar of Abui, a Papuan language of Alor Co-promotor Marian Klamer; Victoria Nyst A Descriptive Analysis of Adamarobe Sign Language (Ghana). (in Amsterdam, with Prof. dr. Anne Baker); Mulugeta Seyoum A Grammar of Dime Co-promotor Azeb Amha; Kofi Dorvlo A Grammar of Logba (Ikpana) Co-promotor Felix Ameka; Tolemariam Fufa A typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian Afro-Asiatic Languages.; Regula Christianssen-Bolli A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali.Co-promotor Maarten Kossmann; Anne-Christie Hellenthal A Grammar of Sheko. Co-promotor Azeb Amha; Michael Benjamin Leach Things Hold Together: foundations for a systemic treatment of verbal and nominal tone in Plateau Shimakonde Co-promotor Constance Kutsch Lojenga; Sandra Barasa Language, Mobile Phones and Internet: A Study of SMS Texting, Email, IM and SNS Chats in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) in Kenya Medepromotor Marc van Oostendorp; Pierre Malgoubri Recherches dialectologiques et dialectométriques nuni (une langue gurunsi du Burkina Faso); Juliette Huber A grammar of Makalero, a Papuan language of East Timor. Co-promotor Aone van Engelenhoven; Sander Steeman A Grammar of Sandawe Co-promotor Maarten Kossmann; Timothy Stirtz A Grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan language from Sudan Co-promotor Maarten Kossmann; Matthias Urban Analyzability and Semantic Associations in Referring Expressions: A Study in Comparative Lexicology Medepromotor Bernard Comrie; Betty Litamahuputty: Ternate Malay Grammar and Texts; Ongaye Oda Orkaydo A Grammar of Konso; Eugenie Stapert Contact-induced change in Dolgan: An investigation into the role of linguistic data for the reconstruction of a people’s (pre)history. Medepromotor: Brigitte Pakendorf; Marjolijn Aalders Grool Verbal Art of the Fon (Benin). Co-promotor Felix Ameka; Angela Kluge A Grammar of Papuan Malay. Co-promotor Marian Klamer; Ibrahima Cissé Développement phonético-phonologique en fulfulde et bambara d’enfants monolingues et bilingues: étude du babillage et des premiers mots. Medepromotor Elisabetta Carpitelli en Co-promotor Nathalie Vallée (CNRS – Grenoble); Richard Gravina The Phonology of Proto-Central Chadic. Co-promotor Christian Rapold; Terrill Schrock A Grammar of Ik (Icé-tód). Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language; Olivier Bondeelle Polysémie et structuration de lexique : le cas du wolof. Mede-promotor Sylvain Kahane, Co-promotor Felix Ameka; Andrey Nefedov Clause linkage in Ket. Mede-promotor Bernard Comrie; Oumou Koultoum Diaby Kassamba Analyse conceptuelle et traductibilité des termes de maladie dioula. Co-promotor Felix Ameka; Ginger Boyd The phonological systems of the Mbam languages of Cameroon with a focus on vowels and vowel harmony. Co-promotor Constance Kutsch Lojenga; Gert de Wit Liko Phonology and Grammar. Co-promotor Constance Kutsch Lojenga; Katalin Buzási The language situation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Historical roots, measurements, and development impact, At Universiteit Utrecht Mede-promotor Jan-Luiten van Zanden; Nadine Grimm, geb. Borchardt A Grammar of Gyeli. At Humboldt Universität Berlin Mede-promotor Tom Güldemann; Jean ChavulaVerbal derivation and valency in Citumbuka. Co-promotor Leonid Kulikov.
Selected Publications
- Kießling, Roland & Maarten Mous 2004. Urban Youth Languages in Africa. Anthropological Linguistics 46(3): 303-341
- Mous, Maarten 2003. The Making of a Mixed Language: The Case of Ma’a/Mbugu. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Mous, Maarten 2003. Nen. In The Bantu languages, edited by Derek Nurse and Gérard Philippson, pp. 283-306. London: Routledge.
- Mous, Maarten, Martha Qorro & Roland Kießling 2002. An Iraqw - English Dictionary (Cushitic Language Studies,15) Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
- Mous, Maarten 1993. A Grammar of Iraqw. (Cushitic Language Studies, 9) Hamburg: Helmut Buske.
Other publications can be found under 'Publications' (top page).
Teaching activities
I teach in the BA Afrikaanse Talen en Culturen van Afrika (i.a. Introduction Languages and Cultures of Africa), in the BA and MA Linguistics (Descriptive linguistics, Languages of Africa) and I co-organize the Research Master course Samples of linguistic structure. I also teach the BA kerncurriculum Taalwetenschap and regularly do guest lectures in the BA International Studies.
Curriculum Vitae
I received my Ph.D. 1 April 1992 with a thesis entitled “A Grammar of Iraqw” Leiden University; I obtained MA degrees in African Linguistics in 1985; and Mathematics 1983, both at Leiden University. I am Professor of African Linguistics, Leiden Univeristy. since 1 June 2004 and before that I was Unversitair docent Leiden University since 1993. Before that I worked at Bayreuth University and several I colleges (hogescholen). I was director of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics from 2009 to 2011. I was guest researcher at NIAS, Wassenaar (2014), Research Centre for Linguistic Typology La Trobe, Melbourne (2006), MPI Leipzig (2001), Université Nice (2003, 2008). I am member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands, since september 2010.
Grants & awards
Selection of recent projects:
Leiden University grant for developing Small Private Online Course on language description
EuroBABEL (NWO) projects: The Kalahari Basin area: a ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction (Post-Doc Christian Rapold) and Endangered sign languages in village communities (village-sign. (Post-Doc Victoria Nyst)
DoBeS (Volkswagen Stiftung)project The language of the Bakola forest foragers of Cameroon. https://dobes.mpi.nl/projects/bakola/
Professor Emeritus African Linguistics
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL T&C van Afrika
- Mous M.P.G.M. & Alphonce C. (2024), Constructions with verbal nouns in Iraqw. In: Essegbey J. & Aboh E.O. (Eds.), Predication in African languages. Studies in Language Companion Series no. 235. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 286-313.
- Ongaye Oda O. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2023), Konso. In: Meyer R., Wakjira B. & Leyew Z. (Eds.), Oxford handbook of Ethiopian languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 227-256.
- Sands B., Harvey A., Mous M.P.G.M. & Tosco M. (2023), Why Hadza is (probably) not Afroasiatic: a discussion of Militarev’s “Hadza as Afrasian?”, Journal of Language Relationship 21(1-2): 91-109.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2023), The emergence of lexical applicatives in Iraqw, Arusha Working Papers in African Linguistics 5(1): 3-30.
- Gibson H. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2023), Set 4 Rangi and Alagwa (data file). [dataset].
- Botma E.D. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2023), Vowel copy in Iraqw verbal derivation. In: Weijer J. van de (Ed.), Representing phonological detail (Part I: segmental structure and representations). Berlin: De Gruyter. 17-32.
- Botma E.D. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2023), Vowel copy in Iraqw verbal derivation. In: Weijer J. van de (Ed.), Part 1: Segmental structure and representations. Phonology and Phonetics no. 32. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 17-31.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2022), Tone and the verbal systems of Nyokon, The Journal of West African Languages 49(2): 1-33.
- Mous M. & Barasa S. (2022), Kenya: Sheng and Engsh. In: Kerswill P. & Wiese H. (Eds.), Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change. Abingdon: Routledge. 105-124.
- Hoogervorst T. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2022), Foreword. In: Groff C., Hollington A., Hurst-Harosh E., Nassenstein N., Nortier J., Pasch H. & Yannuar N. (Eds.), Global perspectives on youth language practices. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. v-ix.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2022), Commands, curses, blessings and invocations among the Iraqw of Tanzania. In: Storch A. & Dixon R.M.W. (Eds.), The art of language. Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture no. 32. Leiden: Brill. 204-220.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2022), Tanzania and Kenya: appraisal of continued richness in languages, The Journal of Linguistics and Language Education 16(1): 113-131.
- Gibson H., Marten L., Mous M.P.G.M. & Riedel K. (2022), Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: a diachronic reanalysis. In: Pacchiarotti S. & Zúñiga F. (Eds.), Applicative morphology: neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs no. 373. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 163-188.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2022), Tone and the Verbal Systems of Nyokon, Journal of West African Languages 49(2): .
- Olthof M., Lier E. van, Claessen T., Danielsen S., Haude K., Lehmann N., Mous M.P.G.M., Verhoeven E., Visser E., Vuillermet M. & Wolvengrey A. (2021), Verb-based restrictions on noun incorporation across languages, Linguistic Typology 25(2): 211-256.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2021), Nominal number in cushitic. In: Cabredo Hofherr P. & Doetjes J.S. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number. Oxford Handbooks Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 522-538.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2021), The typology of tone and Cushitic, Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 62: 91-106.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2021), The grammatical primacy of tone in Cushitic, Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 62: 1-15.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2021), The Iraqw society reflected in their language. In: Aikhenvald A.Y., Dixon R.M.W. & Jarkey N. (Eds.), The Integration of Language and Society: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Explorations in linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 312-341.
- Mous M.P.G.M. & Barasa S. (2021), Sheng and Engsh in Kenya’s Public Spaces and Media. In: Mesthrie R., Hurst-Harosh E. & Brookes H. (Eds.), Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa. Canbridge: Cambridge University Press. 141-158.
- Klamer Marian. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2021), Pieter Cornelis Muysken 11 april 1950 - 6 april 2021. In: , Levensberichten en Herdenkingen. Amsterdam: KNAW. 121-125.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2021), Nominal number in Cushitic. In: Cabredo Hofherr P. & Doetjes J. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of grammatical number. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 522-538.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2020), Iraqw. In: Vossen R. & Dimmendaal G.J. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of African languages. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 577-597.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2020), Mixed languages: the case of Ma'á/Mbugu. In: Vossen R. & Dimmendaal G.J. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of African languages. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 871-877.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2020), Language isolates and the spread of pastoralism in East Africa. In: Crevels E.I. & Muysken P.C. (Eds.), Language dispersal, diversification and contact: a global perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 240-249.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2020), Transfer of Swahili ‘until’ in contact with East African languages. In: Smith N., Veenstra T. & Aboh E.O. (Eds.), Advances in contact linguistics: in honour of Pieter Muysken. Contact Language Library no. 57. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 217-233.
- Wane M.H. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2020), Noon vowel harmony, Journal of West African Languages 47(2): 85-97.
- Shi M., Chen Y. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2020), Tonal split and laryngeal contrast of onset consonant in Lili Wu Chinese, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147(4): 2901-2916.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2020) Review of [grammatical sketch and short vocabulary of the Ogiek language of Mariashoni] by [Ilaria Micheli]. Review of: Ilaria Micheli (2018), Grammatical Sketch and Short Vocabulary of the Ogiek Language of Mariashoni. Aree di transizione linguistiche e culturali in Africa no. 4. Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste. Ethnorêma 16: 75-77.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2019), Language contact. In: Velde M. van de, Bostoen K., Nurse D. & Philippson G. (Eds.), The Bantu Languages. London: Routledge. 355-380.
- Catling A. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2019), Using a discourse adverb to correct expectations an analysis of mak in Iraqw: an analysis of mak in Iraqw, Studies in African Linguistics 48(2): 329-355.
- Marten L. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2018), Non-valency changing Valency-changing Derivations, Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter 26: 89-105.
- Barasa S.N. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2017), Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng, Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages 32(1): 48-74.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2017), Language and Identity among marginal people in East Africa. In: Micheli I. (Ed.), Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored. Proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop Trieste, May 25-26, 2016. Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste. 218-233.
- Orkaydo O.O. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2017), The semantics of pluractionals and punctuals in Konso (Cushitic, Ethiopia), Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 38(2): 223–263.
- Marten L. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2017), Valency and expectation in Bantu applicatives, Linguistics Vanguard 3(1): .
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2016), Alagwa - a South Cushitic Language of Tanzania: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon.. Cushitic and Omotic Studies no. 7. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
- Orkaydo O.O. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2016), Subject clitics in Konso, Nordic Journal of African Studies 25(1): 23–51.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2015), Copula attracting inflection in Iraqw, a Cushitic language from Tanzania, Lingue e Linguaggio 14(2): 179-195.
- Dorleijn M., Mous M.P.G.M. & Nortier J. (2015), Urban Youth Speech Styles in Kenya and the Netherlands. In: Nortier J. & Svendsen B.A. (Eds.), Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century: Linguistic Practices across Urban Spaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 271-341.
- Mous M. & Sanka S. (2014), Sound Symbolism in Iraqw literature. In: Féral C. de, Kossmann M.G. & Tosco M. (Eds.), In and Out of Africa. Languages in Question. In Honour of Robert Nicolai, Volume 2: Language Contact and Language Change in Africa. Leuven: Peeters.
- Tsegaye M.T., Mous M. & Schiller N.O. (2014), Plural as a value of Cushitic gender: Evidence from congruency effect experiments in Konso (Cushitic). In: Corbett G.C (Ed.), The Expression of Gender. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2014), TAM-Full Object-Verb Order in the Mbam languages of Cameroon, ZAS Papers in Linguistics 57: 72 – 94.
- Beck R.M. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2014), Iraqw Slufay and the Power of Voice. In: Vogele H., Reuster-Jahn U., Kastenholz R. & Diegner L. (Eds.), From the Tana River to Lake Chad Research in African Oratures and Literatures: In memoriam Thomas Geider. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. 357-371.
- Mous M. (2013), Reduplication in Cushitic. In: Simeone-Senelle M.C. & Vanhove M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Paris, 16-18 April 2008. Koeln: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag. 95-134.
- Mous M. (2013), Mixed Ma'á / Mbugu. In: Michaelis S.M., Maurer P., Haspelmath M. & Huber M. (Eds.), The survey of pidgin and creole languages vol.3 Contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia nad the Americas. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 42-49.
- Mous M. (2013), Ma'á / Mbugu In The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online, ed. by Michaelis S.M, Maurer P, Haspelmath M, Huber M. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evalutionary Anthropology (Max Planck Institute for Evalutionary Anthropology). [database].
- Mous Maarten (2012), Cushitic. In: Frajzyngier Zygmunt & Shay Erin (Eds.), The Afroasiatic languages.. Cambridge: Cambrige University Press. 342-422.
- Mous Maarten & Qorro M. (2010), The syntactic function of a scope marking suffix in Iraqw, Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 31(1): 47-78.
- Petrollino Sara & Mous Maarten (2010), Recollecting Words and Expressions in Aasá, a Dead Language in Tanzania, Anthropological Linguistics 52(2): 206-216.
- Petrollino S. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2010), Recollecting Words and Expressions in Aasá, a Dead Language in Tanzania, Anthropological Linguistics 52(2): 206-216.
- Mous Maarten & Oda Ongaye (2009), The Semantics of Clause Linking in Konso. In: Dixon R.M.W. & Aikhenvald A.Y. (Eds.), The Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 336-355.
- Barasa Sandra & Mous Maarten (2009), The Oral & Written Interface in SMS: Technologically Mediated Communication in Kenya. In: Craats I. van der & Kurvers J. (Eds.), Low-Educated Adult Second Language and Literacy Acquisition 4th Symposium - Antwerp 2008. Utrecht: LOT publications. 234-242.
- Mous Maarten (2009), The development of Urban Youth Languages in Africa. In: Junyent M.C. (Ed.), Transferences: The Expression of Extra-Linguistic Processes in the World's Languages. Vic, Spain: Eumo Editorial. 215-232.
- Mous Maarten (2009), Loan words in Iraqw, a Cushitic language of Tanzania. In: Haspelmath M. & Tadmor U. (Eds.), Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook. Berlijn: De Gruyter Mouton. 103-123.
- Mous Maarten & Qorro M. (2009), Iraqw vocabulary. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. [other].
- Mous Maarten & Qorro M. (2008), The Evidential Adverb hhóo in Iraqw. Berlijn: Dietrich Reimer.
- Mous Maarten (2008), Voice in Tunen: The so-called passive prefix bé-. In: Lubotsky A., Schaeken J. & Wiedenhof J. (Eds.), Evidence and Counter-Evidence. Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt. Volume 2: General Linguistics. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 303-312.
- Kiessling R., Mous Maarten & Nurse D. (2008), The Tanzanian Rift Valley area. In: Heine B. & Nurse D. (Eds.), A Linguistic Geography of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 186-227.
- Mous Maarten (2008), Number as an exponent of gender in Cushitic. In: Frajzyngier Z. & Shay E. (Eds.), Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 137-160.
- Kiessling R., Mous Maarten & Nurse D. (2008), The Rift valley area of Central Tanzania as a linguistic contact zone. In: Heine B. & Nurse D. (Eds.), A Linguistic Geography of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 186-227.
- Linn S., Mous Maarten & Vogel M. (Eds.) (2008), Translation and Interculturality: Africa and the West. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- Mous Maarten (2007), The middle and passive derivations in Konso. Amha A., Nous M. & Savà G. (Eds.), Omotic and Cushitic Language Studies: Papers from the Fourth Cushitic Omotic Conference, Leiden, 10-12 April 2003. Fourth Cushitic Omotic Conference, Leiden, 10-12 April 2003. Keulen: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 213-229.
- Amha A., Sava Graziano & Mous Maarten (Eds.) (2007), Omotic and Cushitic Languages Studies: Papers from the Fourth Cushitic Omotic Conference, Leiden, 10-12 April 2003. Cologne: Köppe.
- Mous Maarten (2007), Konsoid. In: Uhlig Siegbert (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 428-429.
- Mous Maarten (2007), Non-Bantu grammatical elements in the mixed language Ma'a, Folia Orientalia 42/43: 315-324.
- Faye S. & Mous Maarten (2006), Verbal system and diathesis derivations in Seereer, Africana Linguistica : 89-112.
- Kiessling R. & Mous Maarten (2006), « Vous nous avez donné le français, mais nous sommes pas obligés de l’utiliser comme vous le voulez »: Youth Languages in Africa. Dürscheid C. & Spitzmüller J. (Eds.), Perspektiven der Jugendsprachforschung / Trends and Developments in Youth Language Research. . Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 33-49.
- Mous Maarten (2005), Coordination in Konso (Cushitic, Ethiopia), Journal of Ethiopian Studies 38(1-2): 97-114.
- Mous Maarten (2005), The innovative character of Object - Verb word order in Nen (Bantu A44, Cameroon). In: Bostoen K. & Maniacky J. (Eds.), Studies in African comparative Linguistics with special focus on Bantu and Mande; essays in honour of Y. Bastin and C. Grégoire. Tervuren: Koninklijk Museum Midden Afrika. 411-424.
- Mous Maarten (2005), Selectors in Cushitic. In: Voeltz F.K.E. (Ed.), Studies in African Linguistic Typology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 303-325.
- Mous Maarten (2005), Yaaku and Ma'á: an Endangered language and the Way Out. Crawhall N. & Ostler N. (Eds.), Creating Outsiders: Endangered Languages, Migration and Marginalisation. Foundation for Endagered Languages: Ninth Conference for Endangered Languages, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 18-20 November 2005. Bath, England: The Foundation of Endangered Languages. 55-58.
- Ameka F.K., Amha A. & Mous Maarten (Eds.) (2005), . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
- Mous Maarten (24 June 2008). Afrikaanse Taalkunde: een holistische benadering. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Mous Maarten & Mreta A.Y. (2004), The comitative/conjunctive preposition na in Chathu (Pare), a Bantu language of Tanzania, South African Journal of African Languages 24(4): 219-229.
- Mous Maarten (2004), A grammatical Sketch of Mbugwe: Bantu F34, Tanzania. Keulen: Ruediger Koeppe.
- Mous Maarten (2004), The grammar of conjunctive and disjunctive coordination in Iraqw. In: Haspelmath M. (Ed.), Coordinating Constructions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 109-122.
- Mous Maarten (2004), The Causative in Konso. Kastenholz R. & Storch A. (Eds.), Sprache und Wissen in Afrika; Beitraege zum 15. Afrikanistentag, Frankfurt an Main und Mainz, 30. September - 2. Oktober 2002. . Köln: Ruediger Koeppe. 213-228.
- Mous Maarten (2004), The Middle in Cushitic Languages. Simpson A. (Ed.), Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, March 22-25, 2001: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages. . Berkeley CA: Linguistic Society. 75-86.
- Ameka F.K., Mous Maarten & Essegbey J.A.B.K. (Eds.) (2004), . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
- Kiessling R. & Mous Maarten (2004), Urban Youth Languages in Africa, Anthropological Linguistics 46(3): 303-341.
- Mous Maarten (2003), The Making of a Mixed Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Kiessling R. & Mous Maarten (2003), The Lexical Reconstruction of West-Rift Southern Cushitic. Keulen: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag.
- Mous Maarten (2003), The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma'á. In: Matras Y. & Bakker P. (Eds.), The Mixed Language Debate: Theoretical and Emperical Advances. Berlijn: Walter de Gruyter. 209-235.
- Mous Maarten (2003), Loss of linguistic diversity in Africa. Janse M. & Tol S. (Eds.), Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive approaches. . Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 157-170.
- Ameka F.K., Mous Maarten & Essegbey J.A.B.K. (Eds.) (2003), . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2003), Nen. In: Nurse D. & Philippson G. (Eds.), The Bantu languages. London & New York: Routledge. 283-306.
- Mous Maarten, Qorro M. & Kiessling R. (2002), Iraqw - English Dictionary with an English and a Thesaurus Index. Köln: Ruediger Koeppe.
- Kooij J.G. & Mous Maarten (2002), Incorporation: a comparison between Iraqw and Dutch, Linguistics: an Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 40(3): 629-645.
- Haabo V. & Mous M.P.G.M. (2002), P-language. In: Carlin E.B. & Arends J. (Eds.), Atlas of the Languages of Suriname. Leiden and Kingston 163 - 174.
- Mous Maarten (2001), Basic Alagwa Syntax. In: Zaborski A. (Ed.), New Data and New Methods in Afroasiatic Linguistics: Robert Hetzron in memoriam. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. 125-135.
- Mous Maarten & Rottland F. (2001), Datooga and Iraqw: A comparison of subsistence vocabulary. In: Ibriszimow D., Leger R. & Seibert U. (Eds.), Von Aegypten zum Tschadsee - eine linguistische Reise durch Afrika. Festschrift fuer Herrrmann Jungraithmayr zum 65. Geburtstag. Wuerzburg: Deutsche Morgenlaendische Gesellschaft. 377-400.
- Mous Maarten (2001), Paralexification in language intertwining. In: Smith N. & Veenstra T. (Eds.), Creolization and Contact. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 113-123.
- Daudey G.H., Hellenthal A.C., Mous M.P.G.M. & Smits H.J. (2001), Geesó Duqa, approaches to an Iraqw tale, Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere (65): 5-40.
- Ameka F.K., Mous Maarten & Essegbey J.A.B.K. (Eds.) (2001), . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
- Mous M.P.G.M. & Ruumi C. (2001), Somalisch in Nederland. In: Extra G. (Ed.), Babylon aan de Noordzee: Nieuwe Talen in Nederland 255-272.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (2001), Ma'a as an ethno-register of Mbugu. In: Nurse D. (Ed.), Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 16/17. Historical Language Contact in Afrika. Cologne 293-320.
- Daudey H., Hellenthal A.C., Mous Maarten & Smits H. (2001), Geeso Duqa, approaches to an Iraqw tale, Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 65: 5-40.
- Mous Maarten (2001), Ma'a as an Ethno-Register of Mbugu, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 16/17: 293-320.
- Mous Maarten & Qorro M. (2000), The Middle Voice in Iraqw. In: Kahigi K., Kihore Y. & Mous M. (Eds.), Lugha za Tanzania / Languages of Tanzania. Leiden: CNWS.
- Mous Maarten (2000), Counter-universal rise of infinitive-auxiliary order in Mbugwe (Tanzania, Bantu F.34). In: Vossen R., Mietzner A. & Meissner A. (Eds.), Mehr als Worte ... Afrikanistische Beitraege zum 65. Geburtstag von Franz Rottland. Keulen: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag. 469-481.
- Ameka F.K., Mous Maarten & Essegbey J.A.B.K. (Eds.) (2000), Journal of African Languages and Linguisitics. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Kahigi K., Kihore Y. & Mous Maarten (Eds.) (2000), Lugha za Tanzania / Languages of Tanzania. Leiden: CNWS.
- Mous Maarten (2000) Iraqw Texts. Review of: Berger P. (2000), Iraqw Texts. Keulen: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag. Tribus 49: 213-214.
- Mous Maarten (2000), Selective replacement is extreme lexical re-orientation, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 3(2): 115-116.
- Mous Maarten (2000), Ka babáy kabábiyo: riddling in Iraqw, Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 62: 39-69.
- Ameka F.K., Mous Maarten & Essegbey J.A.B.K. (Eds.) (1999), . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
- Mous Maarten (1998), Het verhaal van Lach (Tanzania). In: Houppermans J.M.M., Idema W.L. & Kruk R. (Eds.), Op avontuur. Aspecten van avonturenverhalen in Oost en West. Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 97-103.
- Ameka F.K., Mous Maarten & Essegbey J.A.B.K. (Eds.) (1998), . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
- Mous Maarten (1998) Boekbespreking. Review of: Jansen J. (1998), De draaiende put: Een studie naar de relatie tussen het Sunjàta Epos en de samenleving in het Haut-Niger (Mali) no. 2. Leiden: CNWS. Research in African Literatures 29: 222-225.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (1998), Iraqw raadsels als ontspanningsliteratuur, ICA : 18-20.
- Mous Maarten (1997), The e/a alternation in Mgubu: the limits of allomorphy. In: Coerts J. & Hoop H. de (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 123-134.
- Ameka F.K. & Mous Maarten (Eds.) (1997), . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
- Mous Maarten (1997) Voice and Power. The culture of language in Northeast Africa. Review of: Hayward R.J. (1997), Essays in honour of B.W. Andrzejewski. London: SOAS. Afrika und Uebersee 80: 123-125.
- Mous Maarten (1997), The position of the object in Tunen. In: Déchaine R.M. & Manfredo V. (Eds.), Object Positions in Benue-Kwa. Den Haag: Holland Academic Graphics. 123-137.
- Mous Maarten (1996), Broken plurals and syllable sequence restrictions in Iraqw. In: Lecarme J., Lowenstamm J. & Shlonsky U. (Eds.), Studies in Afroasiatic Grammar, Papers from the second Conference on Afroasiatic Languages. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. 268-277.
- Mous Maarten (1996), Was there ever a Southern Cushitic Language (Pre-)Ma'a?. Griefenow-Mewis C. & Voigt R.M. (Eds.), Cushitic and Omotic languages, proceedings of the third International Symposium, Berlin, March 17-19, 1994. . Cologne: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag. 201-211.
- Ameka F.K., Dimmendaal G.J. & Mous Maarten (Eds.) (1996), . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (1995), Ma'a or Mbugu. In: Bakker P. & Mous M.P.G.M. (Eds.), Mixed languages: 15 Case Studies in Language Intertwining 175-200.
- Bakker P. & Mous M.P.G.M. (1995), Introduction. In: Bakker P. & Mous M.P.G.M. (Eds.), Mixed languages: 15 Case Studies in Language Intertwining 1-11.
- Mous Maarten & Carlin E.B. (1995), The 'back' in Iraqw: Extensions of meaning in space, Dutch Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Rugtitel: DS-NELL) 2: 121-133.
- Hulst H. van der & Mous M.P.G.M. (1992), Transparant consonants. In: Hout R. van & Bok-Bennema R. (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1992. Amsterdam | Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 101-112.
- Mous Maarten (1992), A grammar of Iraqw (Dissertatie, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Kortlandt F.H.H.
- Elders S. & Mous M.P.G.M. (1991), The adverbial qo in Iraqw, Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere Sondernummer 199: 125-138.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (1987), Review of: Robinson C. (1984), Phonologie du gunu (parler yambassa), langue bantoue du Cameroun. Paris. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 9: 187-190.
- Breedveld A. & Mous M.P.G.M. (1986), A dialectometrical study of some Bantu languages (A.40-A.60). In: Guarisma G. & Mohlig W. (Eds.), La Methode Dialectometrique Appliquee Aux Langues Africaines. Berlin 177-241.
- Hulst H. van der, Mous M.P.G.M. & Smith N. (1986), The autosegmental analysis of reduced vowel harmony systems: The case of Tunen. In: Beukma F. & Hulk A. (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1986 105-122.
- Mous M.P.G.M. (1981), Vowel Harmony in Tune, The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals: Studies on African Languages Offered to John M. Stewart on his 60th Birthday, : 281-295.