On Friday 17 May, the LHEAf research team from Leiden University will visit Ghent for a joint workshop with BantUGent on the fascinating world of Africa’s early linguistic history. On the program: exploring language contact, diagnosing substrate, and placing linguistic findings in an interdisciplinary context. Be welcome to join the workshop.
Contact: nina.vandervlugt@ugent.be
9am-12pm: Faculty Council Room, Blandijn
Introductions
- 9.15-9.45am
- Introductions BantUGent and LHEAf
- LHEAf project: Unravelling Africa’s Early Linguistic History
Diagnosing Substrate
- 10-10.45am
Substrate Interference in Bantu languages of Central Africa: Insights from Diachronic Phonology — Sara Pacchiarotti - 11am-12pm
Substrate Interference in Eastern Africa — Dominique Loviscach, Alba Hermida Rodriguez, Maarten Mous
12-1.30pm: Lunch break
1.30-5pm: Room 3.1, Tweekerken, Campus Tweekerken
Language contact
- 1.30-2.15pm
(Pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspective — Hilde Gunnink
- 2.30-3.15pm
The Bantu Expansion in Eastern Africa — Maarten Mous
Interdisciplinary research
- 3.30-4.15pm
Bantu Language divergence and convergence and deep-time population history in the Lower Kasai area (DR Congo) — Koen Bostoen - 4.15-5pm:
From linguistic to interdisciplinary research in Eastern Africa
