Documentary on language endangerment in the DRC realized by Greet Habraken as part of the KwiluBantu project (with English subtitles)
Documentaire sur les langues en voie de disparition en RDC réalisé par Greet Habraken dans le cadre du projet KwiluBantu (avec sous-titrage en français)
Multiresearcher project
- The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography (FWO-JSPS, 2021 – 2023)
- BantuFirst (ERC-CG, 2018 – 2023, project website)
- Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar (International conference, 2018)
- CongoConnect: Connections/Collections: power objects and institutions in Northeast Congo (1800-1960) (BELSPO, 2015 – 2019)
- KongoKing (ERC-SG, 2012 – 2016, project website)
- Documentation of cultural heritage in three endangered Bantu languages of the Kwilu (DR Congo). Ngong, Nsong and Nsambaan (DoBeS-Volkswagenstiftung, 2012 – 2015, project website)
Postdoctoral research
- Language contact and linguistic reconstruction. (Pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspective (FWO, 2020 – 2025)
- A diachronic phonological and morphological approach to the classification of Teke languages within West-Coastal Bantu (FWO, 2020 – 2023)
- Directionality in morphosyntactic change: West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theory (FWO, 2020 – 2023)
- Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan speakers in southern Africa (FWO, 2018 – 2021)
- A typology of the passive voice in Bantu (BOF-UGent, 2018 – 2020)
- Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax (BOF-UGent, 2018 – 2021)
PhD research
- Documenting the Bantu languages of the last hunter-gatherer communities of the Mai-Ndombe and Lower Kasai regions (DRC). A pioneering phonetic and laboratory phonological study (FWO, 2020 – 2024)
- Specialized digital frame-based lexicography from the perspective of dictionary use research (CAPES-Brazil, 2019 – 2022)
- Reconstructing the subsistence strategies of the first Bantu speakers south of the Central-African rainforest. A historical-linguistic approach to plant and animal names in West-Coastal Bantu (BantuFirst ERC-CG, 2018 – 2022)
- Description of Kibindji, a Bantu language of the Kuba-Bushong (C80) group (W-Kasaï, DRC) (self-financed, 2014 – 2021)
- Motion verbs in Kirundi (Bantu, JD62) (National Research Foundation Burundi, 2014 – 2018)
- Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective. The Kikongo language cluster and beyond (FWO, 2014 – 2018)
- A diachronic and spatial analytical approach to linguistic micro-variation in the Kikongo dialect continuum (BOF-UGent, 2014 – 2021)
- A corpus-driven study of the expression of modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) (BOF-UGent, 2013 – 2017)
- The Inkisi basin at the time of the Kongo kingdom. Confrontation of historical, archaeological and linguistic data (KongoKing ERC-SG, 2012 – 2017)
- Production and circulation of contemporary pottery in the Kongo area (KongoKing ERC-SG, 2012 – 2021)
- A grammar of Fwe. A Bantu language spoken in Zambia and Namibia (UGent-FLW, 2012 – 2018)
- Prosody, syntax and information structure in Kirundi (Bantu, JD62) (National Research Foundation Burundi, 2011 – 2016)
- African theatre and its characteristics. Analysis of some definitional criteria through Kikongophone urban theatre (Belgian Development Agency, 2010 – 2014)
- A corpus-based grammar of Lusoga (BOF-UGent, 2010 – 2016)
- Bantu languages of North-Western DR Congo. Documentation, reconstruction, classifications and contacts with Ubangi languages (Xenophilia-ULB, 2010 – 2015)
- The expression of modality in Kirundi. A corpus-based approach (National Research Foundation Burundi, 2009 – 2014)