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.
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Mon25Mar20243:00 pmSimon Stevin, Plateau, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent
BantUGent seminar with talk by Pieter De Coene (UGent) on lexicalizing spirit possession in Great Lakes Bantu
Show contentWhat? BantUGent research seminar
When? March 25, 2024
Where? vergaderzaal Simon Steven, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent15.00-16.00: Pieter De Coene: Lexicalizing spirit possession: attestations of -bandw- and related terms in Great Lakes Bantu (part one)
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