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Sara Pacchiarotti
Sara Pacchiarotti
sara.pacchiarotti@ugent.be
Contact details
Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Research group(s)
BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
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Projects
Projects as co-supervisor
Documenting the Bantu languages of the last hunter-gatherer communities of the Mai-Ndombe and Lower Kasai regions (DRC). A pioneering phonetic and laboratory phonological study
(
2020
-
2024
)
Reconstructing the subsistence strategies of the first Bantu speakers south of the Central-African rainforest. A historical-linguistic approach to plant and animal names in West-Coastal Bantu
(
2018
-
2022
)
Projects as postdoc
Directionality in morphosyntactic change: West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theory
(
2020
-
2023
)
Projects as researcher
BantuFirst
(
2018
-
2022
)
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar
(
2018
-
2018
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Leonid Kulikov. “Bribri Media Tantum Verbs and the Rise of Labile Syntax.”
LINGUISTICS
, 2021.
Pacchiarotti, Sara. “On the Origins of the Ergative Marker Wã in the Viceitic Languages of the Chibchan Family.”
Reconstructing Syntax
, edited by Johanna Barddal et al., vol. 11, Brill, 2020, pp. 241–88, doi:10.1163/9789004392007_007.
Pacchiarotti, Sara.
Bantu Applicative Constructions
. Edited by Larry Hyman et al., University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Koen Bostoen. “The Proto-West-Coastal Bantu Velar Merger.”
Africana Linguistica
, vol. 26, 2020, pp. 139–95.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, et al. “Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu Mess : Identification, Geography and Phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 Languages.”
AFRICANA LINGUISTICA
, vol. 25, 2019, pp. 155–229, doi:10.2143/AL.25.0.3287234.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Bantu Grammar in a Comparative and Contrastive Perspective