BantUGent welcomes Dr. Mary Charwi (Dar es Salaam University College of Education) for a FWO-funded research stay hosted by Prof. Sara Pacchiarotti to work on the applicative in the Bantu language Kuria from Tanzania, her first language. She will be in Ghent from August 14 until November 12, 2026. During the Bantu 11 conference (August 18-21), which our research team organized, she presented a talk titled “The Problem of Mixed Categories: Investigating the Syntactic Projection of Swahili Conjunctions” and met with Mr. Alphonce Mayala, the minister-councilar for development financing at the Tanzanian Embassy in Brussels.
