Activities

What? BantUGent/DiaLing research seminar

When? 12 December 2025

Where? Camelot, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren
Time:

10.00: Bernat Bardagil - Argument marking patterns as a proxy for social contact in the Guaporé-Mamoré region of Amazonia

To what extent can we use a high-resolution comparative linguistics approach to open a window into human history when we lack tangible historical information? The Guaporé-Mamoré region, overlapping significant territory in the Bolivian and Brazilian lowlands, is one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse regions in the continent. In spite of that, we know extremely little about the history of a vast majority of the languages, and the indigenous nations who speak them, before the 20th century. In this talk I will discuss my ongoing research examining grammatical properties in order to triangulate historical information about the nations inhabiting of this area.

To join the meeting online via MS teams, please contact Nina van der Vlugt.