CITATIONS OF DR.ENEREN UCHE AARON//Obolo Son

 

CITATIONS OF DR.ENEREN UCHE AARON

Today, we celebrate a rare Obolo Icon and a distinguished Patron of Ngba Ndiak Obolo, God's son and servant, ENEREN UCHE AARON Ph.D.

Thanks for dedicating and sacrificing your whole life time in pursuit of the development and preservation of the language, culture, history and indeed, the people of Obolo.

We love and celebrate you sir.

God Almighty bless and reward you exceedingly.

Please, read more about Dr. Uche E. Aaron; a native of Amadaka, Eastern Obolo who has made great impact, not just in Obolo, but worldwide. It will interest you to know that he is not even respected in Obolo and Nigeria as much as he is in other countries of the world; even Israel.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Uche E. Aaron, Ph.D.
Senior Translation Consultant
Degrees
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994
M.A., Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington, 1983
B.Sc., Construction Engineering, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, 1979.

CURRENT POSITIONS
Certified Senior Translation Consultant, SIL International, 2012–2016, 2017–.
Linguistics Consultant, Nigeria Bible Translation Trust (NBTT), 1995–.
Translation Consultant, NBTT, 1989–.
Other professional experience and service
SIL International Translation Consultant, 1996–2011.
Project Adviser, Obolo Language Project, Nigeria, 1983–2006.
Director, Nigeria Bible Translation Trust, 2000–2002.
Translation Coordinator, NBTT, 1995–1999.
Field Projects Coordinator, NBTT, 1995–1999.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Tau Beta Pi, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, 1978–1979.
Michigan State Society of Professional Engineers, 1978–1979.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES
Obolo: ILR 5
English: ILR 5
Hebrew (Biblical): ILR 3+
Hebrew: ILR 3
Ibibio: ILR 3
Ibo: ILR 2+
Hausa: ILR 1+
New Testament Greek: ILR 1+

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Discourse similarities between Obolo and Hebrew
Tense/Aspect system of Biblical Hebrew
Tense/Aspect system of Biblical Greek
Discourse analysis
Information load
Serial Verbs
Speech Quotation
Impact and feasibility of the mother-tongue in education in Nigeria

PUBLICATIONS:
Selected publications
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1999. Tense and aspect in Obolo grammar and discourse. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1998. Discourse factors in Bible translation: A discourse manifesto revisited. Notes on Translation 12(1):1–12.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1996/97. Grammaticization of the verb 'say' to future tense in Obolo. Journal of West African Languages 26(2):87–94.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1996/97. The category of number in Obolo verbal morphology. Journal of West African Languages 26(1):49–76.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1992. Reported speech in Obolo narrative discourse. In Shin Ja J. Hwang and William R. Merrifield (eds.), Language in context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre, 227–240. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 107. Dallas.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1990. Orthography of Obolo (Andoni). Orthographies of Nigerian languages: Manual 6. Lagos: Federal Ministry of Education.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1983. Language variation in Obolo. In Jerold A. Edmondson (ed.), Pilot studies in sociolinguistics, 135–142. Research Papers of the Texas SIL 13. Dallas: SIL.
Other
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 2016. Genre analysis, poetry, wisdom, and prophecy. Paper presented at the Seed Company Bible translation team training: OT training for translation consultants, SIL International Linguistics Center, Dallas, October 28, 2016.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 2016. Discourse issues in translation. Paper presented at the Africa Translation Consultant Training (AFTRACT) Workshop at Nigeria Bible Translation Trust, Jos, March 7-18, 2016.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 2015. The importance of Hebrew linguistic context in determining the meaning of a Biblical text. Paper presented at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Home for Bible Translators (now Jerusalem Centre for Bible Translators) at Rothberg School Auditorium, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 29, 2015.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 2014. Discourse analysis and translation. Paper presented at the Translation Consultant Workshop at Nigeria Bible Translation Trust, Jos, March 2014.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 2013. Discourse and cultural similarities between Obolo and biblical Hebrew. Ms.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 2013. Uncovering the meaning we translate: The importance of discourse context. Paper presented at Bible Translation 2013 Conference in Dallas. October 11–15, 2013.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1994. Tense and aspect in Obolo grammar and discourse. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Aaron, Uche Ekereawaji. 1983. Interpropositional relations in Obolo. M.A. thesis. University of Texas at Arlington.
Works by this author in SIL Language & Culture Archives

 

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