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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
)
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
, 2022, doi:10.1515/ling-2020-0085.
Bollaert, Flore, et al. “The Noun Class System of Bwala, an Undocumented Teke Language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z).”
NORDIC JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES
, vol. 30, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1–40.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Koen Bostoen. “The Evolution of the Noun Class System of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861, DRC).”
LANGUAGE IN AFRICA
, vol. 2, no. 3, 2021, pp. 11–67, doi:10.37892/2686-8946-2021-2-3-11-67.
Van Acker, Sifra, et al. “Reconstructing West-Coastal Bantu Vocabulary as Evidence for Early Banana Cultivation in Central Africa.”
STUDIES IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS
, vol. 50, no. 2, 2021, pp. 285–325, doi:10.32473/sal.v50i2.122286.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Koen Bostoen. “Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (DRC) as a Contact-Induced Change.”
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE CONTACT
, vol. 14, no. 2, 2021, pp. 438–76, doi:10.1163/19552629-14020007.
Full bibliography
Teaching
African Historical Linguistics