What? BantUGent research seminar
When? April 27, 2023, 10am
Where? Avalon (third floor, Blandijn) (https://www.ugent.be/lw/nl/diensten/infrastructuur/plannen/blandijn130140.pdf)
Lorenzo Maselli (UGent) will give a talk on LV articulation in Sakata: preliminary notes
We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Sifra Van Acker to get the link.
For online participation (only for Day 2), please register here.
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)
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
What? BantUGent research seminar
When? February 23, 2023
Where? Camelot, Blandijn, Blandijnberg 2, Gent
Who? Sara Pacchiarotti & Heidi Goes on The reconstruction of Proto-WCB independent and possessive pronouns for speech act participants: does morphological evidence support lexicon-based phylogenetic groupings?
We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Sifra Van Acker to get the link.
What? BantUGent research seminar
When? January 26, 2023, 3pm
Where? Faculty Room (first floor Blandijnberg 2)
Hilde Gunnink (UGent) will give a talk on Auxiliary constructions in Southern Bantu.
We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Sifra Van Acker to get the link.
We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Sifra Van Acker for more information.
What? BantUGent research seminar
When? November 24 2022, 14am
Where? Faculty Room (first floor, Blandijnberg 2)
Who? Lorenzo Maselli will share notes on labial-velar consonants in Sakata. There is room for one more communication.
We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online through MS Teams. Ask Lorenzo Maselli for the link.
We prefer to welcome you in real life, but if you cannot make it, you can follow online. Ask Lorenzo Maselli for the link.
Contact:
Sifra Van Acker (sifra.vanacker@ugent.be)
Lorenzo Maselli (lorenzo.maselli@ugent.be)
On September 6, 2022 (4pm CET), Mandela Kaumba Mazanga (BantUGent, ULB, UNILU) defends her PhD dissertation titled “Production et circulation de la céramique des trois derniers siècles dans l’aire kongo : une approche combinée des données ethnographiques, muséales et archéologiques”, which she wrote under the co-supervision of Prof. Koen Bostoen (BantUGent), Prof. Pierre de Maret (ULB) and Prof. Olivier Gosselain (ULB). The jury members are Prof. Placide Mumbembele (Université de Kinshasa, Institut des Musées Nationaux du Congo), Prof. Inge Brinkman (UGent), and Prof. Alexandre Livingstone-Smith (RMCA, ULB). The joint UGent-ULB PhD research of Mandela Kaumba Mazanga was financed by the ERC-SG KongoKing project. To attend the defense online, please click here.
Le 6 septembre 2022 (16h CET), Mandela Kaumba Mazanga (BantUGent, ULB, UNILU) soutiendra sa thèse de doctorat intitulée “Production et circulation de la céramique des trois derniers siècles dans l’aire kongo : une approche combinée des données ethnographiques, muséales et archéologiques”, qu’elle a rédigée sous la co-directeurs des Professeurs Koen Bostoen (BantUGent), Pierre de Maret (ULB) et Olivier Gosselain (ULB). Les membres du jury sont le Prof. Placide Mumbembele (Université de Kinshasa, Institut des Musées Nationaux du Congo), la Prof. Inge Brinkman (UGent), et le Prof. Alexandre Livingstone-Smith (RMCA, ULB). La recherche doctorale de Mandela Kaumba Mazanga a été faite en co-tutelle entre l’UGent et l’ULB et a été financée par le projet ERC-SG KongoKing. Pour participer à la soutenance en ligne, veuillez cliquer ici.
