International BantUGent-ILCAA Joint Research Workshop: The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography

Date/Time

1–2 September, 2022 (Thu.–Fri.), 10:00–17:00

Venue

Campus Boekentoren, Ghent University

Program

1 September (Thu.)

Session 1
10:00–12:00
Chair: Nobuko YONEDA (Osaka)

Guy KOUARATA (Ghent)
“The loss of Proto-Bantu *ng and the subgrouping of the Teke (B70) Languages”

Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA) and Yasunori TAKAHASHI (Kobe University)
“Emergence of the conjoint/disjoint distinction in Kimakunduchi”

Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
“Internal variation of negation systems and historical branching of Kilimanjaro Bantu languages”

Session 2
13:30-15:30
Chair: Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)

Gastor MAPUNDA (UDSM)
“Updating the Ngoni-Swahili-English Dictionary Project”

Sifra VAN ACKER (Ghent)
“The Introduction of sugarcane in Central Africa: Historical-Linguistic Insights from West-Coastal Bantu”

Barbara WESTERVELD (Ghent)
“NLP and ML as research methods for African Linguistics”

Session 3
16:00–18:00
Chair: Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER (Ghent)

Yuka MAKINO (ILCAA/JSPS)
“Lamba in Doke’s era and the present day Lamba”

David KOPA WA KOPA (ULB, UNIKIS) and Birgit RICQUIER (ULB)
“Contact linguistique au Bas Lualaba, au présent et au passé”

Iris KRUIJSDIJK (Leiden) and Maarten MOUS (Leiden)
“The complex history of Mbugwe (F34, Tanzania)”

2 September (Fri.)

Session 4
10:00–12:00
Chair: Koen BOSTOEN (Ghent)

Ndongo KOZA JOSUÉ (Institut Supérieur de la Gombe/Kinshasa) and Jean-Pierre DONZO BUNZA (Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de la Gombe/Kinshasa)
“La syllabe fermée en ngɔng de Katika (Bantu B864)”

Sara PACCHIAROTTI (Ghent)
“Melodic H tone in Ngwi (Bantu B861, DRC)”

Session 5
13:30-16:00
Chair: Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER (Ghent)

Minah NABIRYE (Ghent)
“Syntactic Reduplication in Lusoga”

Hilde GUNNINK (Ghent)
“Inclusory conjunction in Bantu and beyond”

Koen BOSTOEN (Ghent)
“Causative/inchoative verb alternations in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861) and the relics of the Proto-Bantu verbal derivation system”

Session 6
16:30-17:00
All participants
General discussion “Wrap-up and perspectives for outcome of the project”

Language

English, French

Admission

Free

Jointly Sponsored by

• JSPS Bilateral program (JSPS-FWO) “The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography”
• ILCAA, Core Project “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)”

(Posted 5 October, 2022)