The PhD dissertation which Heidi Goes defended earlier this year (April 1, 2022) at UGent has been covered in a recent article by Miguel Faria de Bastos on the Portuguese language website Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa.
Author: Koen Bostoen
BantuGent research at the Francqui International Professorship Symposium in Antwerp
On December 9, 2022, Antwerp University organises the Francqui International Professorship Symposium on “Diversity and Documentation of Speech Sounds in Languages of the World“. This symposium celebrates the International Francqui Professorship of Prof. Dr Bruce Connell and explores the diversity in languages of the world and the need for their documentation. The contributions focus on both the segmental and suprasegmental aspects. The symposium programma also includes several BantUGent talks:
- Labial-velar consonants in Sakata (Bantu C34): preliminary phonetic and phonological observations by Lorenzo Maselli
- Retroflex nasals in the Mai-Ndombe (DRC): the case of nasals in North Boma B82 and Nunu B822 by Lorenzo Maselli, Véronique Delvaux, Jean-Pierre Donzo, Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
- Shared phonetic features in newly documented hunter-gatherer Bantu languages in the southern fringe of the Congo rainforest (DRC) by Jean-Pierre Donzo, Lorenzo Maselli, Marie-Faustine Beloko, Sara Pacchiarotti & Koen Bostoen
For more info, see https://www.phonetics.expert/programme.
Koen Bostoen & Guy Kouarata present BantUGent at AUGent Africa Platform Meet the Ambassadors Event
On Thursday November 24 Koen Bostoen & Guy Kouarata represent BantUGent on the “Meet the Ambassadors Event — Celebrating 15 years of AUGent Africa Platform” organized by the AUGent Africa Platform at Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Ghent. The event’s program is available here. Their presentation can be downloaded here.
Lorenzo Maselli gives a talk at the Tokyo African Linguistics Knot on November 14, 2022
Within the program of his exchange research stay in Tokyo as part of the FWO-JSPS-funded collaborative project between ILCAA and BantUGent on “The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography“, Lorenzo Maselli (BantUGent) gives a talk on his PhD research at the Tokyo African Linguistics Knot.
Date and time: Nov 14, 2022, 18:00-19:00 (JST), 10:00-11:00 (CET)Title: Phonetic and phonological reconnaissance of the Mai-Ndombe (DRC): case studies into close-quarter sound variation
Zoom: to be obtained via Daisuke Shinagawa (ds@aa.tufs.ac.jp)
BantuGent research presented for Kinshasa University delegation at UGent
Prof P. Kapagama & Prof G. Mvumbi Lelo in charge of international partnerships at Kinshasa University visited Ghent University for a meet and greet at Het Pand on Thursday 20 October 2022 from 14h-16h30. Peter Coutros (BantUGent), Guy Kouarata (BantUGent), and Koen Bostoen (BantUGent) briefly presented ongoing BantuFirst research in the DRC in close collaboration with Prof. Igor Matonda from Kinshasa University (UNIKIN). Vicky Van Bockhaven from the African Studies Department also talked about the ongoing Afrisurge and Congolines projects she is supervising in collaboration with Congolese universities (e.a. Université de l’Uélé).
Koen Bostoen contributes chapter on Kongo Kingdom to secondary school history textbook (Dutch)
Koen Bostoen (BantUGent) co-authored a chapter on the Kongo Kingdom for a Belgian 4th grade secondary school textbook (Dutch) on the history of the 16th century. In an accompanying video he explains in Dutch how scholars reconstruct ancient African history and how they rely on language sources for this endeavor.
