The 9th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu 9) was held at the Malawi University of Science and Technology in Blantyre from 7 to 10 June 2022. The program included several research papers involving BantUGent researchers (bold):
- Maud Devos, Rasmus Bernander & Johan Van der Auwera: “Somebody interested in nobody? The specific and negative indefinites ‘somebody’ and ‘nobody’ in Bantu languages”
- Hilde Gunnink: “Contact and Inheritance in the development of lateral obstruents in Southern Bantu”
- Lorenzo Maselli ,Véronique Delvaux, Jean-Pierre Donzo, Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen: “Retroflex sounds in the Mai-Ndombe (DRC): the case of nasals in North Boma B82 and Nunu B822”
- Daisuke Shinagawa, Seunghun J. Lee & Lorenzo Maselli: “Postnasal trilling in Bantu cross-linguistic variation and typology overview”