“…In the present work, a revision of her Habilitation thesis, she presents the first systematic comparison of the morphology of Old Nobiin, Nobiin, Dongolawi/Kenzi and the Hill Nubian languages. In the framework of the models developed by Thomason and Kaufman (1988) and Myers-Scotton (1992, 1993 she outlines a possible sociolinguistic scenario for the Nubian languages spanning the past 3,000 years. Starting from the known she proceeds to the unknown, i.e.…”