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Dr. Hilde Gunnink
Dr. Hilde Gunnink
hilde.gunnink@ugent.be
Academia
Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Research group(s)
BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
Research Focus
Linguistics
Research Region
Africa
Research Language
African languages
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as co-supervisor
Divergence and convergence in the history of the Shona languages. Contact, migration, and change in a subgroup of Southern African Bantu
(
2023
-
2026
)
Projects as postdoc
Language contact and linguistic reconstruction. (Pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspective
(
2022
-
2025
)
The past and present of Bantu languages. Integrating micro-typology, historical-comparative linguistics and lexicography
(
2021
-
2023
)
Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan speakers in southern Africa
(
2018
-
2021
)
Projects as PhD researcher
A grammar of Fwe. A Bantu language spoken in Zambia and Namibia
(
2012
-
2018
)
Projects as researcher
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar
(
2018
-
2018
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Gunnink, Hilde, et al. “Central African Hunter-Gatherer Music Lexicon Does Not Predate the Bantu Expansion.”
SocArXiv
, 2025, doi:10.31235/osf.io/pbj8c_v1.
van der Vlugt, Nina, and Hilde Gunnink. “Inheritance and Contact in the Development of Lateral Obstruents in Nguni Languages (S40).”
LANGUAGES
, vol. 10, no. 5, 2025, doi:10.3390/languages10050090.
Gunnink, Hilde, et al. “Yeyi : A Phylogenetic Loner in Eastern Bantu.”
LANGUAGES
, vol. 10, no. 4, 2025, doi:10.3390/languages10040055.
Fortes-Lima, Cesar A., et al. “The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Bantu-Speaking Peoples in Africa.”
NATURE
, vol. 625, no. 7995, 2024, pp. 540–47, doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06770-6.
van der Vlugt, Nina, et al. “Teasing Apart Shona’s Linguistic Strata : New Insights from Comparative Bantu Pottery Vocabulary.”
11th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), Abstracts
, 2024.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Lecturer in charge:
Introduction to African Linguistics (Inleiding tot de Afrikaanse Taalkunde)
Co-lecturer:
Language, Culture and Society in Africa 1 (Taal, Cultuur en Samenleving in Afrika 1)
Language, Culture and Society in Africa 2 (Taal, Cultuur en Samenleving in Afrika 2)
Afrikaans: Linguistics and Literature (Afrikaans: Taal- en Letterkunde)
Bantu Grammar in a Comparative and Contrastive Perspective
