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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 postdoc
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. “The Early History of Clicks in Nguni.”
DIACHRONICA
, 2022, doi:10.1075/dia.19061.gun.
Gunnink, Hilde. “Khoisan Influence in the Bantu Language Yeyi.”
8th International Conference on Bantu Languages, Abstracts
, 2021.
Gunnink, Hilde, et al. “Inheritance and Contact in the Diversification of Southern Bantu Languages.”
10th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL10), Abstracts
, 2021.
Sengupta, Dhriti, et al. “Genetic Substructure and Complex Demographic History of South African Bantu Speakers.”
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22207-y.
Gunnink, Hilde. “The Tjhauba and Their Place in Southern African Prehistory.”
Extracting the Past from the Present, International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History
, 2021.
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
Introduction to African Linguistics