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Dr. Hilde Gunnink

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hilde.gunnink@ugent.be

Department

Department of Languages and Cultures

Research group(s)

BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies

Research Focus

Research Region

Research Language

African languages

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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

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