PhD student Heidi Goes talked about her research on the Kikongo Language Cluster (West-Coastal Bantu) and her fieldwork in Cabinda on June 20, 2021, as part of a lecture series organized by the Australian Esperanto Association. Her talk is available on Youtube
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On June 17, 2021, at 3.30 pm, Koen Bostoen presents a talk titled “Retrieving lost paths in the rainforest after population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE” at the online ASCL Seminar in Leiden.
During the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics (June 7-12, 2021), organized online by Leiden University, Lorenzo Maselli, Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen presented two papers with original language data collected in the West-Coastal Bantu homeland: one titled “Phonetic and laboratory phonological research on hunter-gatherer substrate interference in the West-Coastal Bantu homeland region: Some preliminary results” and one titled “On the origin of verb-final subject indexes in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, DRC)“. Recordings of both talks are available on the conference platform.
Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen present their ongoing research on the the poorly described West-Coastal Bantu language Ngwi at the 8th International Conference on Bantu Languages, which is held online at the University of Essex, UK, 2-4th June 2021. Their pre-recorded talk “The Vowel System of Ngwi (Bantu, B861, DRC)” is available here. It includes original fieldwork data, which they collected in Idiofa in 2019.
On May 27, Koen Bostoen & Joseph Koni Muluwa present a talk titled “The Immediate Before Verb Focus Position in West-Coastal Bantu: Some Comparative Data” during the online workshop on Typological Perspectives on Focus Marking in African Languages convened by Mena Lafkioui at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. The progam is available here.
On May 26, 2021, BantUGent and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) in Tokyo (Japan) have the second kick-off meeting of their FWO-JSPS-funded collaborative project on “The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography“. It also covers BantuFirst research.
The meeting is online. The Zoom link to participate can be obtained via koen.bostoen@ugent.be upon request.
9:30-9:40: Opening remarks
9:45-11:15: The first session
9:45-10:15 Koen Bostoen: “Suffixal phrasemes in Bantu verbal derivation”
10:15-10:45 Nobuko Yoneda: “Properties of the subject in Bantu languages”
10:45-11:15 Minah Nabirye: “Information Structure in Lusoga: New Corpus-based Research”
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00: The second session
11:30-12:00 Daisuke Shinagawa: “Morphosyntactic local variation in Chaga”
12:00-12:30 Gilles-Maurice de Schryver: “Bantu lexicography in Asia”
12:30-13:00 General discussion about the project’s research agenda
Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen presented the online talk “The West-Coastal Bantu Velar Merger and its Evolutions: Genealogical Diagnosticity and Lexical Diffusion” at the 15th International African Studies Conference in Moscow on May 25, 2021 (1pm CET). The program is available here.
On May 12, 2021, BantUGent and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) in Tokyo (Japan) have the first kick-off meeting of their FWO-JSPS-funded collaborative project on “The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography“. It also covers BantuFirst research.
The meeting is online. The Zoom link to participate can be obtained via koen.bostoen@ugent.be upon request.
9:30-9:40: Opening remarks
9:45-11:15: The first session
9:45-10:15 Sara Pacchiarotti: “Phylogenetics and the Comparative Method as tools for the internal classification of West-Coastal Bantu: results and challenges”
10:15-10:45 Lorenzo Maselli: “Phonetic and phonological research on hunter-gatherer substrate interference in the West-Coastal Bantu homeland region: some preliminary results and methodological remarks”
10:45-11:15 Kyoungwon Jeong: “Micro-parametric research on cross-Bantu phonological microvariation: a test case in Swati”
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00: The second session
11:30-12:00 Yuka Makino: “Contrastive analysis on the local variation of TAM expressions in M40 and M50″
12:00-12:30 Makoto Furumoto: “A synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Kimakunduchi final vowel”
12:30-13:00 Hilde Gunnink: “Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan speakers in southern Africa“
On April 22, 2021, Koen Bostoen presented the talk titled “Spread-over-spread events in Bantu language history: New cross-disciplinary insights from Central Africa” for the Kalahari Basin Area network.
On April 21, 2021 Sara Pacchiarotti presented the FunC-talk “Phylogenetics and the Comparative Method as tools for the internal classification of West-Coastal Bantu: results and challenges in the light of other interdisciplinary evidence” at Leuven University.
