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Day 1 (closed session)
Session 1 (13.30-15.00 JST = GMT+9)
Data session: A Cross-Bantu perspective on causative/inchoative verb alternation
Convenor: Koen Bostoen (BantUGent)
“A historical-comparative exploration of causative/inchoative verb alternations in Bantu”
Discussants: Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto Sangyo University), Maya Abe (Osaka University)
Session 2 (15.30-17.00 JST = GMT+9)
Data session: Subject properties in Bantu
Convenor: Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
Discussants: Guy Kouarata (BantUGent), Yuka Makino (ILCAA/JSPS)
Day 2 (open session)
Session 3 (09.30-11.00 JST = GMT+9)
Makoto Furumoto (ILCAA): “Rethinking the historical relation of Zanzibar Swahili with Comorian”
Minah Nabirye (BantUGent): “Cleft constructions in Lusoga (Bantu, JE16)”
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?”
Symposium (13.00-16.15 JST = GMT+9)
13.00-13.15: Opening remarks
13.15-14.00: Cross-Bantu typology
Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA) “A micro-parametric appraoch to cross-Bantu typology and its insight to the group-internal structural diversification” — Discussant: Sara Pacchiarotti (BantUGent)
14.15-15.00: Historical linguistics
Koen Bostoen (BantUGent) “The Bantu Expansion or how West Africans transformed Africaʼs linguistic, cultural and biological landscapes” — Discussant: Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
15.15-16.00: Lexicography
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (BantUGent) “Investigating the feasibility of a hub-and-spoke model to hold ILCAA’s Bantu lexica into a single multipurpose online dictionary database” — Discussant: Kanji Kato (Research Organization of Information and Systems/TUFS)
16.00-16.15: Closing remarks
This event is organised and financially supported by the JSPS-FWO Bilateral Project “The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography”. It is co-organized by the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent) and ILCAA’s core project of linguistics “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)”.
‘The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography’ is a bilateral joint research program funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in association with the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO).
Alphaconceptual+ combined with hub-and-spoke lexicography to produce a new type of online dictionary