BANTUGENT
The UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent) stands for a transdisciplinary approach to the past and present of Bantu languages, Bantu speech communities and their (im)material worlds, both in Africa and in the diaspora.
Our research starts from the data-driven study of language and/or (im)material culture and relies on methods and theoretical insights from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, (art) history, botany, zoology, genetics, etc.
Within the field of Bantu linguistics, which is BantUGent’s centre of gravity, we strongly focus on historical linguistics, including language contact, and corpus linguistics and lexicography, which we strive to combine.
Our research is also integrated in several courses of the UGent BA in African Languages and Cultures and MA in African Studies, such as Introduction to African Linguistics, Language Documentation and Description in Africa, African Historical Linguistics, Bantu Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography, Comparative Bantu Grammar, and African Archaeology.
News
- New short film on the BantuFirst archaeological river reconnaissance mission 2021
- Jessamy Doman joins BantUGent
- Papers in Historical Phonology publishes new BantUGent research on the vowel system of Ngwi
- New BantUGent research on Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu in the Journal of Language Contact
- BantUGent researchers contribute to new multilingual piece of art
- Bantu9 – Malawi University Of Science and Technology – Call for Papers open