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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. “Divergence and Contact in Southern Bantu Language and Population History : A New Phylogeny in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective.”
LANGUAGE DYNAMICS AND CHANGE
, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023, pp. 74–131, doi:10.1163/22105832-bja10022.
Gunnink, Hilde.
Prehistoric Language Contact in Southern Africa : Khoisan Traces in Modern Bantu Languages
. 2023.
Gunnink, Hilde. “How Contact Affects Social Formulae : A Case Study of Greeting Routines in Southern African Languages.”
Interactionality Seminars, Universiteit Leiden
, 2023.
Fortes-Lima, Cesar A., et al. “The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Bantu-Speaking Peoples in Africa.”
BioRXiv
, 2023, doi:10.1101/2023.04.03.535432.
Gunnink, Hilde. “Auxiliary Constructions in Southern Bantu.”
BantUGent Research Seminar
, 2023.
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
