On March 21 and 22, 2024, an international workshop on “Dialogues in Swahili and Bantu linguistics” took place at Osaka University to celebarate the career and retirement of Prof. Nobuko Yoneda, who used to be a partner in the ILCAA-BantUGent Joint Research Project “The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography”.
The full program is available here. Koen Bostoen (BantUGent) was invited to present a talk titled “Bantu Language divergence and convergence and deep-time population history in the Lower Kasai area (DR Congo)”.
At the occasion of this celebration, a special issue of the Journal of Swahili and African Studies (n°35, 2024) was published including an article titled “Noncausal/Causal Alternations and the Rise of Lability in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861)” by Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti (BantUGent).
