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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
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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
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.
Bostoen, Koen, and Sara Pacchiarotti. “Noncausal/Causal Alternations and the Rise of Lability in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861).”
JOURNAL OF SWAHILI AND AFRICAN STUDIES
, no. 35, 2024, pp. 11–31, doi:10.18910/95317.
Misago, Manoah-Joël, et al. “The Applicative and the Focalization of Event Location in Rundi (Bantu JD62).”
L’applicatif Dans Les Langues : Regard Typologique
, edited by Huy-Linh Dao et al., Société de Linguistique de Paris, 2024, pp. 121–63.
Fortes-Lima, Cesar A., et al. “The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Bantu-Speaking Peoples in Africa.”
NATURE
, vol. 625, no. 7995, 2024, pp. 540–47, doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06770-6.
Pacchiarotti, Sara, et al. “Sound Change versus Lexical Change for Subgrouping : Word-Final Lenition of Proto-Bantu *ŋg in West-Coastal Bantu.”
LANGUAGE DYNAMICS AND CHANGE
, vol. 14, no. 1, 2024, pp. 1–73, doi:10.1163/22105832-bja10033.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Language Documentation and Description in Africa