Projects

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KongoKing

2012

The history of the Kongo area has been more thoroughly studied than that of any other region in Central Africa. We have unequalled insights in the area’s history of the last ...read more
Archaeology
History
Linguistics
Documentation of cultural heritage in three endangered Bantu languages of the Kwilu (DR Congo). Ngong, Nsong and Nsambaan

2012

This endangered language documentation project is funded by the DoBeS program of the Volkswagen foundation through a 3-year grant (2012-2015) and involves collaboration between Ghent University, Kinshasa University and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Nsambaan, Nsong and Ngong are three closely related ...read more
A grammar of Fwe. A Bantu language spoken in Zambia and Namibia

2012

The aim of this PhD project was to provide a comprehensive grammatical description of Fwe, an underdocumented Bantu language spoken in Zambia and Namibia.read more
Africa
African languages
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
The interface between information structure, syntax and prosody in Kikongo. An integrated descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach

2012

This research focuses on the study of Information Structure and its interaction with syntax and prosody in Kisikongo and Kisolongo, two Angolan varieties of Kikongo, a western Bantu language. It involves an integrated descriptive, comparative ...read more
Africa
African languages
Linguistics
The Kongo kingdom. Chrono-typological and archaeological study of its pottery

2012

This PhD thesis is part of the KongoKing project, an interdisciplinary research program using archaeology and historical linguistics in order to better understand the Kongo kingdom. Within this framework, this PhD ...read more
The Inkisi basin at the time of the Kongo kingdom. Confrontation of historical, archaeological and linguistic data

2012

This PhD project which is part of the KongoKing project consists of an multi- and disciplinary approach to settlement and urbanism in the Inkisi valley (DRC) at the time of the ...read more
Production and circulation of contemporary pottery in the Kongo area

2012

This PhD project which is part of the KongoKing project focusses on ceramics in the Kongo area from the 19th to 21st century through an approach combining ethnographical fieldwork on ...read more
Factors of production in the Roman world

2012

'Factors of Production' was the central 6-year research program of the Roman Society Research Center to study the three classical production factors in the Roman world : Land & Natural ...read more
Social rituals in the Roman world

2012

The first three years of the Roman Society Research Centre have been very succesful and have provided the institutional context for a succesful application for a Scientific Network about the ...read more
Identity and stigmatization. The case of the Roman freedman. A qualitative analysis of the socialization and stratification of and the interaction between freed and freeborn Romans

2012

Slavery continues to be a popular and fruitful research topic in Classical Studies. Almost every period in history has known its own variety, yet for over two centuries Roman slavery ...read more
Africa
Antiquity
Asia
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
English
French
German
Greek
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle East
Southern Europe
Western Europe