Lorenzo Maselli went on a multidisciplinary fieldwork mission in the Mai Ndombe Province of the DRC together with Prof. Jean-Pierre Donzo (ISP Gombe) as part of the BantuFirst project.
Author: Koen Bostoen
New corpus-based research on Kirundi by Manoah-Joël Misago and colleagues
Manoah-Joël Misago (Université du Burundi – BantUGent) and colleagues publish a new study on Kirundi in the journal Language in Africa using the BantUGent Kirundi corpus.
Koen Bostoen talks on population collapse in Congo rainforest at African Studies Centre Leiden
Koen Bostoen presented a talk titled “Retrieving lost paths in the rainforest after population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE” at the online ASCL Seminar in Leiden on June 17, 2021, at 3.30 pm.
BantUGent at the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics – Leiden
Maud Devos, Hilde Gunnink, Lorenzo Maselli, Ernest Nshemezimana, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen presented ongoing BantUGent research at the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics, which was held online at Leiden University, the Netherlands, 7-12th June 2021. Their pre-recorded talks are available here.
BantUGent at the 8th International Conference on Bantu Languages – University of Essex
Maud Devos, Hilde Gunnink, Ernest Nshemezimana, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen presented ongoing BantUGent research at the 8th International Conference on Bantu Languages, which is held online at the University of Essex, UK, 2-4th June 2021. Their pre-recorded talks are available here.
Koen Bostoen & Joseph Koni Muluwa talk at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris
On May 27, 2021, Koen Bostoen & Joseph Koni Muluwa present the talk titled “The Immediate Before Verb Focus Position in West-Coastal Bantu: Some Comparative Data” during the online workshop “Typological Perspectives on Focus Marking in African Languages” convened by Mena Lafkioui at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. The progam is available here.
Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen talk at the 15th International African Studies Conference in Moscow
On May 25, 2021, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen gave an online talk titled “The West-Coastal Bantu Velar Merger and its Evolutions: Genealogical Diagnosticity and Lexical Diffusion” at the 15th International African Studies Conference in Moscow.
Koen Bostoen gives a talk for Belgium’s Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences
On May 18, 2021, Koen Bostoen presented the invited talk “Population collapse in the Congo rainforest around 1500 years ago” for the Section of Human Sciences of Belgium’s Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences.
Koen Bostoen talks at DDL in Lyon
On May 17, 2021, Koen Bostoen presented the invited talk “Lost Paths in the Rainforest” for the “Origins of Linguistic Diversity” seminar at the ‘Dynamique Du Langage’ (DDL) research lab in Lyon.
Koen Bostoen talks for the Kalahari Basin Area network
On April 22, 2021, Koen Bostoen presented the talk titled “Spread-over-spread events in Bantu language history: New cross-disciplinary insights from Central Africa” for the Kalahari Basin Area network.
