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Prof. Dr. Sara Pacchiarotti
Prof. Dr. Sara Pacchiarotti
sara.pacchiarotti@ugent.be
Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Research group(s)
BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
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Projects
Projects as supervisor
The Congo-Ubangi watershed. An interdisciplinary approach to the genesis of a linguistic accretion zone in Central Africa
(
2024
-
2029
)
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
The past and present of Bantu languages. Integrating micro-typology, historical-comparative linguistics and lexicography
(
2021
-
2023
)
Directionality in morphosyntactic change. West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theory
(
2020
-
2023
)
Projects as researcher
A diachronic phonological and morphological approach to the classification of Teke languages within West-Coastal Bantu
(
2020
-
2023
)
BantuFirst
(
2018
-
2023
)
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar
(
2018
-
2018
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Maselli, Lorenzo, et al. “Nasal Retroflexes in North Boma (Bantu B82, Mai-Ndombe, DRC).”
PHONOLOGICAL DATA AND ANALYSIS
, vol. 8, 2026, doi:10.1017/s2642182825000042.
Gunnink, Hilde, et al. “Central African Hunter-Gatherer Music Lexicon Does Not Predate the Bantu Expansion.”
SocArXiv
, 2025, doi:10.31235/osf.io/pbj8c_v1.
Mfouhou, Chrisnah Renaudot, and Sara Pacchiarotti. “A Sketch of the Phonology and Morphosyntax of Kpálà (‘Ubangi’, Mundu-Baka, DRC).”
AFRICANA LINGUISTICA
, vol. 31, 2025, pp. 107–54, doi:10.2143/AL.31.0.3295060.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Fernando Zúñiga. “Noun Incorporation in Bribri.”
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS
, vol. 91, no. 4, 2025, pp. 477–507, doi:10.1086/737187.
Bostoen, Koen, et al. “The Coevolution of Languages, Peoples and Environments in Central Africa’s Kwilu-Kasai Region since ∼1000 BCE : A Dialogue with Jan Vansina.”
QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTS AND HUMANS
, vol. 3, no. 4, 2025, doi:10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100088.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Introduction to African Linguistics