Angi Ngumbu talks on how linguistics impacts the lives of the speakers of minority languages in DRC

What? BantUGent research seminar
When? March 23, 2022, 2pm
Where? Simon Stevin Room, Plateau-Rozier, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Ghent (online through Zoom, passcode: KG14YtTh)

 

Angi Ngumbu (The Seed Company) visits BantUGent on Wednesday March 23 and will give a talk titled “Applied Linguistics: Stories of how linguistics is impacting the lives of the speakers of minority languages in DRC

 

Angi Ngumbu has been working as a linguist and project manager in the two Congos (Brazzaville and Kinshasa) for 15 years.  She will share about the different projects she has worked on during this time in applied linguistics, from picture dictionaries, language documentation, survey, and orthography development.  Some of this work has been directly influenced by or done in collaboration with personnel from Ghent University.

 

Venue: Simon Stevin Room

Contact: koen.bostoen@ugent.be

 

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Public PhD defense Heidi Goes

On April 1, 2022 (9.30 am CET), Heidi Goes (BantUGent) defends her PhD dissertation titled “A historical-comparative approach to phonological and morphological variation in the Kikongo Language Cluster, with a special focus on Cabinda”, which she wrote under the co-supervision of Prof. Koen Bostoen (BantUGent) and Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (BantUGent). The jury members are Prof. Bruce Connell (York University), Prof. Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University), Prof. Joseph Koni Muluwa (ISP Kikwit), Prof. Mark Janse (UGent) and Dr. Guy Kouarata (UGent).  The president of the jury is Prof. Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent) and the secretary Dr. Hilde Gunnink (UGent).

This event can also be followed online through MS Teams. More info: heidi.goes@ugent.be

The ceremony will be followed by a reception (near the Faculty Council, Blandijnberg 2, first floor)

Please confirm your presence using this link (https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/cabinda), at the latest  Wednesday at noon (23/3/2022).

 

 

 

BantUGent research seminar with talks by Heidi Goes on Kikongo and Guy Kouarata on Lingála

What? BantUGent research seminar
When? March 7, 2022
Where? Only online through Zoom
1:30-2:15 pm: Heidi Goes (BantUGent): A historical-comparative approach to phonological and morphological variation in the Kikongo Language Cluster with a special focus on Cabinda (dry run PhD defense)
2:15-2:45 pm: Guy Kouarata (BantUGent):  Xenisms, borrowings and lexical hybrids in Lingála

Contact

Lorenzo Maselli (lorenzo.maselli@ugent.be)

BantUGent research seminar with talks by Sebastian Dom on Bantu causatives and Guy Kouarata on Lingála

What? BantUGent research seminar
When? February 7, 2022
Where? Only online through Zoom (Passcode: AnUWT8dw)
1:30-2:15 pm: Sebastian Dom (Gothenburg University): Synchronic and diachronic variation in the coding of the noncausal/causal alternation: Causative *-i in East Bantu languages
2:15-2:45 pm: Guy Kouarata (BantUGent):  Xenisms, borrowings and lexical hybrids in Lingála (canceled)

Contact

Sifra Van Acker (sifra.vanacker@ugent.be)

Lorenzo Maselli (lorenzo.maselli@ugent.be)

 

BantUGent research seminar with talks by Hilde Gunnink, Guy Kouarata and Michel Mbabu

What? BantUGent research seminar
When? January 10, 2022
Where? Only online through Zoom (Passcode: fXSPHve3)
1:30-2:15 pm: Hilde Gunnink (BantUGent – Leiden University): Lateral obstruents in Bantu
2:15-2:45 pm: Guy Kouarata (BantUGent):  Les préfixes de classes 7 et 15 en bantou de la côte ouest : le cas des parlers téké de la RDC

2:45-3:15 pm: Michel Mbabu (ISP-Gombe, Kinshasa):  Les voyelles en kiyombe (bantou H16c)

Contact

Sifra Van Acker (sifra.vanacker@ugent.be)

Lorenzo Maselli (lorenzo.maselli@ugent.be)

BantUGent research seminar with talks by Jean-Pierre Donzo and Lorenzo Maselli, Daisuke Shinagawa & Seunghun Lee

What? BantUGent research seminar
When? December 6, 2021
Where? Only online through Zoom
1:30-2:15 pm: Jean-Pierre Donzo (ISP-Gombe, Kinshasa & BantUGent): La vie de certaines consonnes dans les langues du nord-ouest de la RD Congo
2:15-2:45 pmLorenzo Maselli (BantUGent), Daisuke Shinagawa (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa – Tokyo) & Seunghun Lee (International Christian University – Tokyo):  Post-nasal trilling in a cross-Bantu perspective

Contact

Sifra Van Acker (sifra.vanacker@ugent.be)

Lorenzo Maselli (lorenzo.maselli@ugent.be)

 

Talk on History of the Bantu Languages [Dutch] – Koen Bostoen – Centre for Historical Languages Ghent

The Bantu languages are the largest African language family, both in terms of number of languages and speakers and geographical distribution. About 350 million or about one in three Africans speak one or more of the 500 or so Bantu languages, which stretch from above the equator to South Africa. Swahili, Lingala, Kongo, Luba, Rwanda, Rundi, Ganda, Zulu, Xhosa, and Shona are just some of the best-known Bantu languages. Proto-Bantu is about 5000 years old and is said to have been born in the border area between Nigeria and Cameroon. This lecture is about the reconstruction of this hypothetical ancestral language, about the exceptionally rapid and large-scale diffusion of its daughter languages and about the history and future of the study area.

 

https://www.historischetalen.be/cursus/twaalf-smaakmakers/