BantUGent at Bantu10 in Dar es Salaam

The 10th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu10) was held at the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE), Tanzania on August 12-14, 2024. Among many others, the program included eleven talks involving BantUGent people (bolded), including a keynote talk opening the conference.

 

  • “Swahili impact in the strong necessity domain” by Rasmus Bernander, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Maud Devos, Ponsiano Kanijo
  • “Reconstructing the Bantu Expansion: Do linguists still matter?” by Koen Bostoen (keynote talk)
  • “Proto-West-Coastal Bantu personal and possessive pronouns: Morphological reconstruction and low-level subgrouping” by Koen Bostoen, Sara Pacchiarotti and Heidi Goes
  • “Imagined Language Unity versus Observed Language Diversity in Cabinda” by Heidi Goes and Koen Bostoen
  • “The development of lateral obstruents in Southern Bantu: A comparative diachronic study” by Hilde Gunnink and Nina van der Vlugt
  • “The genealogy of Yeyi (R41): an only child in Eastern Bantu” by Hilde Gunnink, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and Koen Bostoen
  • “Labial-velar stops in Sakata: phonology, acoustics, aerodynamics” by Lorenzo Maselli
  • “Early Bantu loans from and into Cushitic” by Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt
  • “Language contact in the Lower Zambezi River at the origin of Chikunda: Bantu Spirantization as a diagnostic case study?” by Edward Ntonda, Rozenn Guérois and Koen Bostoen
  • “On the polyfunctional nature of the verbal prefix ka- in Chikunda” by Rozenn Guérois and Aron Zahran
  • ““Nothing is in vain”: Non- standard negation in Central Tanzanian Bantu.” by Aron Zahran