- Webpage: https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/events/orpbgconference/
- Organisation: the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent) and the RMCA Service of Culture & Society (Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren)
- Funding: Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), the UGent Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and the RMCA.
- Dates: November 19-23, 2018
- Venue: Ghent University, Campus Boekentoren/Book Tower
- Contact: If you would like to contact any of the presenters, click on their name below.
- Click here for a photo report of the conference by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and his team
- Click here for a FREE download of the book ‘On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar’
Program
MONDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Venue: Jozef Plateauzaal (Jozef Plateaustraat 22)
Opening
08.30: Welcome + Registration
09.15: Opening address by the organizing committee (Koen Bostoen)
Chair: Koen Bostoen
09.30: Thilo Schadeberg (Leiden University) Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar Half a Century after Meeussen (1967)
10.15: Rebecca Grollemund (University of Missouri) and Lutz Marten (SOAS) Reconstructing Proto-Bantu in the Light of the Latest Insights into Bantu Phylogeny
11.00: Coffee break
Proto-Bantu Phonology
Chair: Rozenn Guérois
11.30: Nancy Kula (University of Essex) Proto-Bantu Segmental Phonology
12.15: Gérard Philippson (DDL, Lyon) Double Reflexes’ Revisited: Implications for the Proto-Bantu Consonant System
13.00: Lunch break
14.00: Lotta Aunio (University of Helsinki) & Jacky Maniacky (RMCA, Tervuren) Proto-Bantu Nominal Tone
14.45: Michael Marlo (University of Missouri) Proto-Bantu Verbal Tone
15.30: Larry Hyman (University of California, Berkeley) Causative and Passive H tone: Spurious or Proto?
16.15: Coffee break
16.45: Round table discussion (Council Room Faculty Arts & Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, 1st floor)
18.00: Closure
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Venue: Jozef Plateauzaal (Jozef Plateaustraat 22)
Chair: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Proto-Bantu Verbal Form
09.30: Jeff Good (University at Buffalo) & Tom Güldemann (Humboldt University of Berlin) Proto-Bantu Verbal Form
Proto-Bantu Verbal Derivation
10.15: Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation) Proto-Bantu Verbal Extensions from a Bantoid Perspective
11.00: Coffee break
11.30: Sara Pacchiarotti (Ghent University) On the reconstructable main clause functions of Proto-Bantu applicative suffix *-ɪd
12.15: Rozenn Guérois (Ghent University) Proto-Bantu Passive Constructions
13.00: Lunch Break
14.00: Sebastian Dom (Ghent University) & Leonid Kulikov (Ghent University) Proto-Bantu Middle Voice: From Meeussen to Schadeberg and Beyond
14.45: Koen Bostoen (Ghent University) Non-Compositional Complex Verbal Derivation Suffixes and the Semantic Reconstruction of *-an in Proto-Bantu
15.30: Coffee Break
16.00: Round table discussion (Council Room Faculty Arts & Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, 1st floor)
17.15: Proto-Bantu QUIZ (Sara Pacchiarotti & Koen Bostoen)
18.00: Closure
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Excursion to the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren
Venue: CODA building, room 333, Leuvensesteenweg 17, 3080 Tervuren
08.15: Departure to Tervuren by bus (in front of main entrance Plateau building, Jozef Plateaustraat 22)
Welcome
10.15: Welcome address at the RMCA
Chair: Sebastian Dom
10.30: Maud Devos (RMCA, Tervuren) Recent Research on the Biography of Achiel Emiel Meeussen in Relation to Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions (1967)
11.15: Coffee break
Proto-Bantu Tense, Aspect and Polarity
11.30: Derek Nurse (Independent Scholar) Proto-Bantu Tense and Aspect
12.15: John Watters (SIL International) Proto-Bantu Tense from a Benue-Congo Perspective
13.00: Lunch break
14.00: Thera Crane (University of Helsinki) & Bastian Persohn (University of Hamburg) Proto-Bantu Lexical Aspect
14.45: Coffee break
15.00: Round table discussion
16:15: Guided pre-view and visit of the renovated Royal Museum for Central Africa
18.15: Back to Ghent
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22, 2018
Venue: Council Room Faculty Arts & Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, 1st floor
Proto-Bantu Verbal Morphosyntax
Chair: Sara Pacchiarotti
09.00: Mark Van de Velde (LLACAN, Paris) Proto-Bantu Relative Clauses
09.45: Hannah Gibson (University of Essex) Proto-Bantu Auxiliary Constructions
10.30: Coffee break
11.00: Rasmus Bernander (University of Helsinki) & Maud Devos (RMCA, Tervuren): Proto-Bantu Existentials
Proto-Bantu Clausal Syntax and Information Structure
Chair: Hilde Gunnink
11.45: Benji Wald (University of California, Berkeley) Some Problems in the Information Structure of Proto-Bantu (& its descendants)
12.30: Lunch break
13.30: Fatima Hamlaoui (University of Toronto) Proto-Bantu Word Order
14.15: Yukiko Morimoto (Humboldt University of Berlin) & Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University) Proto-Bantu Subject and Topic
15.00: Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University) Proto-Bantu Focus Constructions
15.45: Coffee break
16.15: Round table discussion
17.30: Closure
19.00: Conference Dinner (La Cave, Emile Braunplein 15)
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23, 2018
Venue: Council Room Faculty Arts & Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, 1st floor
Chair: Jacky Maniacky
Proto-Bantu Clausal Syntax and Information Structure (Continued)
09.00: Laura Downing (Gothenburg University) Prosodic Phrasing in Proto-Bantu
09.45: Tom Güldemann (Humboldt University of Berlin) Meeussen’s (1967) ‘advance verb construction’ – what to reconstruct?
10.30: Dmitry Idiatov (LLACAN, Paris) Proto-Bantu Question Words
11.15: Coffee break
Proto-Bantu Nominal Morphosyntax
Chair: Maud Devos
11.45: Josephat M. Rugemalira (University of Dar es Salaam) Proto-Bantu Noun Phrase Structure
12.30: Lunch break
13.30: Jean Paul Ngoboka (University of Rwanda) Proto-Bantu Locatives
14.15: Jean-Georges Kamba Muzenga (Lubumbashi University) Proto-Bantu Substitutives and Possessives
15.00: Coffee break
Closure
15.30: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (Ghent University) Bibliometrics in Bantu Lexical and Grammatical Reconstructions: A.E. Meeussen and Beyond
16.15: Round table discussion + round-up (proceedings, future meetings, online platform, etc.)
17.30: Closing words (Koen Bostoen)