On March 5-6, 2023 the closing workshop of the ILCAA-BantUGent Joint Research Project “The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography” was held at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Sara Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen presented three talks pertaining to linguistic and interdisciplinary research within the BantuFirst project.
Koen Bostoen (BantUGent): “A historical-comparative exploration of causative/inchoative verb alternations in Bantu”
Sara Pacchiarotti (BantUGent) & Heidi Goes (BantUGent): “The reconstruction of Proto-WCB independent and possessive pronouns for speech act participants: does morphological evidence align with lexicon-based phylogenetic groupings?”
Koen Bostoen (BantUGent) “The Bantu Expansion or how West Africans transformed Africaʼs linguistic, cultural and biological landscapes”
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