The 11th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL11) was held at the University of Nairobi, Kenya on August 5-9, 2024. The program included, among many others, several talks involving BantUGent people (bolded):
- “The verb -weza in and out of Swahili” by Rasmus Bernander, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Maud Devos, Ponsiano Kanijo
- “The lifeworld of ancestral West-Coastal Bantu speakers: insights from lexical reconstruction” by Koen Bostoen, Jessamy Doman, Sara Pacchiarotti and Sifra Van Acker
- “Stilled objects versus cultural histories. Reconnecting museum objects related to coffee and cassava to past and present Tetela vocabularies” by Maud Devos, Inge Brinkman, Joseph Djongakodi, Sarah O’Neill and Mathilde Wendenda
- “Labial-velar stops in Sakata: phonology, acoustics, aerodynamics” by Lorenzo Maselli
- “Identifying language contact in Bantu N40 languages through the analysis of cultural vocabulary” by Edward Ntonda
- “Teasing apart Shona’s linguistic strata: New insights from comparative Bantu pottery vocabulary” by Nina van der Vlugt, Hilde Gunnink & Koen Bostoen
- “Classifying Chikunda: A comparison of the noun class systems of the Zambezi Valley Bantu languages” by Aron Zahran and
Rozenn Guérois
