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Sara Pacchiarotti
Sara Pacchiarotti
sara.pacchiarotti@ugent.be
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
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
)
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar
(
2018
-
2018
)
BantuFirst
(
2018
-
2023
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Fortes-Lima, Cesar A., et al. “The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Bantu-Speaking Peoples in Africa.”
BioRXiv
, 2023, doi:10.1101/2023.04.03.535432.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Fernando Zuniga, editors.
Applicative Morphology : Neglected Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Functions
. Vol. 373, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022, doi:10.1515/9783110777949.
Bostoen, Koen, et al., editors.
On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar
. Vol. 4, Language Science Press, 2022, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7560552.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Koen Bostoen. “Erratic Velars in West-Coastal Bantu : Explaining Irregular Sound Change in Central Africa.”
JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
, vol. 12, no. 3, 2022, pp. 381–445, doi:10.1075/jhl.20054.bos.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Leonid Kulikov. “Bribri Media Tantum Verbs and the Rise of Labile Syntax.”
LINGUISTICS
, vol. 60, no. 2, 2022, pp. 617–57, doi:10.1515/ling-2020-0085.
Full bibliography
Teaching
African Historical Linguistics