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Sifra Van Acker
Sifra Van Acker
sifra.vanacker@ugent.be
Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Research group(s)
BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
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Projects
Projects as PhD researcher
BantuFirst
(
2018
-
2023
)
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 researcher
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar
(
2018
-
2018
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Van Acker, Sifra, et al. “The Introduction of Sugarcane in West-Central Africa : Insights from Comparative Bantu Word Histories.”
NORDIC JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES
, vol. 33, no. 1, 2024, pp. 16–45, doi:10.53228/njas.v33i1.1107.
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.
Van Acker, Sifra, and Koen Bostoen. “Inheritance and Contact in the Genesis of Gisamba (Bantu, L12a, DRC) : A Diachronic Phonological Approach.”
LINGUISTIQUE ET LANGUES AFRICAINES
, no. 6, 2020, pp. 73–130.
Van Acker, Sifra, et al. “A Historical-Linguistic Approach to the Subsistence of the First Bantu Speakers South of the Rainforest : The Banana Case.”
18th Meeting of Partners (MOP) of CBFP (Congo Basin Forest Partnership) : Posters
, Ghent University, 2018, doi:10.5281/ZENODO.2534953.
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