Arnaud Bizongwako is a PhD student in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. He holds two master’s degrees in Language Studies (2015) and Interpretation (2019). In his PhD research, he applies a combination of corpus and historical-comparative linguistic methods to study the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highlands Bantu, a cluster of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania. In addition to compiling a new Kinyarwanda corpus, the study involves collecting fieldwork data on the poorly documented languages of the subgroup, namely Kishubi, Kihangaza, Giha, and Kivinza. His research interests are historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, morphosyntax, information structure, translation, and cross-linguistic interference.
