My PhD-project combines a corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highland Bantu, a group of closely related languages from the Great Lakes region of Eastern ...read more
Soon after the release of ChatGPT, the state of the art of generative AI in lexicography was surveyed (cf. de Schryver 2023). If one is to believe that survey, as ...read more
The history of kubandwa – a complex of therapeutic associations in Great Lakes Africa – since 1500 is intimately linked to gendered social-economic innovation and configurations of (supra)lineage authority. An ...read more
The overall goal of this doctoral study is to investigate the different types of modal markers in Kirundi, to describe their syntactic properties and semantic values, and to establish their ...read more