BantUGent research at 9th International Conference on Bantu Languages in Blantyre (Malawi)

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”