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Gilles-Maurice de Schryver gives a talk on the future of metalexicography in Tokyo, Japan

[Gilles-Maurice de Schryver is on a lecture tour in Tokyo, presenting five papers on lexicography in a week, with a focus on Bantu languages and more generally for the field of (meta)lexicography as a whole. See for the other events the ‘News’ page as well as the ‘Activities’ page.]

What? The future of metalexicography: A bibliometric study
Who? Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
When? Fri 3 March, 18:00-19:30 (Tokyo time)
Where? Online [for the Lexicography SIG, Iwasaki Linguistic Circle, Tokyo]
Contact persons: Professor TONO Yukio & Professor AKASU Kaoru

The future of metalexicography: A bibliometric study

Minah Nabirye and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver talk at Tokyo African Linguistics Knot

When? Thu 2 March 2023, 14:30-17:00 (Tokyo time)
Where? Venue at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Who and what?
• Minah Nabirye: Language documentation for Lusoga (Bantu, JE16)
• Gilles-Maurice de Schryver: From corpus to online lexicon for Swahili (Bantu, G42d), and what its searches can tell us about actual dictionary use
Contact person: Professor SHINAGAWA Daisuke

http://www.tufs.ac.jp/tokyo-african-linguistics-knot/2023/02/dddlingtalk20225.html

From corpus to online lexicon for Swahili, and what its searches tell us about actual dictionary use

Mary Zacharia Charwi and BantUGent colleagues publish on medicinal plants among the Kuria of Tanzania

Guy Kouarata directs a documentary on the Congolese historian and politician Jérôme Ollandet

In a new French-spoken documentary film, Guy Kouarata (BantUGent) recounts the life and work of the Congolese historian and politician Jérôme Ollandet.

Guy Kouarata talks on restitution of African heritage on international colloquium in Brazzaville

Guy Kourata (BantUGent) shared his reflections on the restitution of African cultural heritage during an international scientific symposium devoted to the life and work of Jérôme Ollandet at the Palais des Congrès in Brazzaville from December 14 to 16, 2022.

Heidi Goes’ PhD research covered on Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa

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.

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).