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prof. dr. Koen Bostoen
Prof. Dr. Koen Bostoen
koen.bostoen@ugent.be
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BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
Onderzoeksgebied
Archaeology
Linguistics
Tijdsperiode
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Land/Regio
Africa
Taal
African languages
Onderzoeksmethode
Comparative
Field research
Language and text analysis
Trefwoorden
Bantu
Cilubà
Comparative linguistics
Historical linguistics
Kikongo
Kirundi
Kiswahili
Luganda
Mbuun
Nsong
Tabgroup
Projecten
Projecten als promotor
Language contact and linguistic reconstruction. (Pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspective
(
2022
-
2025
)
The past and present of Bantu languages: Integrating micro-typology, historical-comparative linguistics and lexicography
(
2021
-
2023
)
A diachronic phonological and morphological approach to the classification of Teke languages within West-Coastal Bantu
(
2020
-
2023
)
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
)
Directionality in morphosyntactic change. West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theory
(
2020
-
2023
)
A typology of the passive voice in Bantu
(
2018
-
2020
)
Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan speakers in southern Africa
(
2018
-
2021
)
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
)
Description of Kibindji, a Bantu language of the Kuba-Bushong (C80) group (W-Kasaï, DRC)
(
2014
-
2021
)
Motion verbs in Kirundi (Bantu, JD62)
(
2014
-
2018
)
Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective. The Kikongo language cluster and beyond
(
2014
-
2018
)
A historical-comparative approach to phonological and morphological variation in the Kikongo Language Cluster with a special focus on Cabinda
(
2014
-
2022
)
A corpus-driven study of the expression of modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15)
(
2013
-
2017
)
The interface between information structure, syntax and prosody in Kikongo. An integrated descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach
(
2012
-
2017
)
KongoKing
(
2012
-
2016
)
The Kongo kingdom. Chrono-typological and archaeological study of its pottery
(
2012
-
2017
)
Documentation of cultural heritage in three endangered Bantu languages of the Kwilu (DR Congo). Ngong, Nsong and Nsambaan
(
2012
-
2015
)
The Inkisi basin at the time of the Kongo kingdom. Confrontation of historical, archaeological and linguistic data
(
2012
-
2017
)
A grammar of Fwe. A Bantu language spoken in Zambia and Namibia
(
2012
-
2018
)
Syntaxe et structure d’information en civili et en kikongo véhiculaire de Pointe-Noire : une étude comparative
(
2012
-
2013
)
Production and circulation of contemporary pottery in the Kongo area
(
2012
-
2021
)
Prosody, syntax and information structure in Kirundi (Bantu, JD62)
(
2011
-
2016
)
Bantu languages of North-Western DR Congo. Documentation, reconstruction, classifications and contacts with Ubangi languages
(
2010
-
2015
)
African theatre and its characteristics. Analysis of some definitional criteria through Kikongophone urban theatre
(
2010
-
2014
)
The expression of modality in Kirundi. A corpus-based approach
(
2009
-
2014
)
Projecten als co-promotor
Theoretical underpinnings for a user-friendly, corpus-driven, semi-bilingual, digital dictionary of Swahili
(
2018
-
2020
)
An archaeological approach on early interactions between hunter-gatherers and sedentary food-producers in Western Central Africa
(
2018
-
2022
)
Projecten als onderzoeker
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar
(
2018
-
2018
)
Publicaties
Belangrijkste publicaties
Pots, words and the Bantu problem: on lexical reconstruction and early African history
(2007
)
Koen Bostoen
Bantu Spirantization: Morphologization, Lexicalization and Historical Classification
(2008
)
Koen Bostoen
Molecular perspectives on the Bantu expansion: a synthesis
(2011
)
Brigitte Pakendorf
Koen Bostoen
Cesare de Filippo
The antipassive in Bantu
(2015
)
Koen Bostoen
Sebastian Dom
Guillaume Segerer
Bantu lexical reconstruction
(2016
)
Koen Bostoen
Yvonne Bastin
The Bantu expansion
(2018
)
Koen Bostoen
Reconstructing proto-Bantu
(2019
)
Koen Bostoen
Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess : identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 languages
(2019
)
Sara Pacchiarotti
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
Koen Bostoen
Language and archaeology
(2020
)
Koen Bostoen
The Bantu expansion : some facts and fiction
(2020
)
Koen Bostoen
Meest recente publicaties
Charwi, Mary Zacharia, et al. “Indigenous Knowledge and Use of Medicinal Plants among the Kuria Communities in the Tarime and Serengeti Districts of Mara Region, Tanzania.”
JOURNAL OF HERBS, SPICES & MEDICINAL PLANTS
, 2023, pp. 1–20, doi:10.1080/10496475.2022.2163734.
Gunnink, Hilde, et al. “Divergence and Contact in Southern Bantu Language and Population History : A New Phylogeny in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective.”
LANGUAGE DYNAMICS AND CHANGE
, 2023, doi:10.1163/22105832-bja10022.
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.
Bostoen, Koen, and Rozenn Guérois. “Reconstructing Suffixal Phrasemes in Bantu Verbal Derivation.”
On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar
, edited by Koen Bostoen et al., vol. 4, Language Science Press, 2022, pp. 343–83, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7575829.
Bostoen, Koen. “An Introduction to Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar.”
On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar
, edited by Koen Bostoen et al., vol. 4, Language Science Press, 2022, pp. v–xlviii, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7575813.
Volledige bibliografie
Onderwijs
Swahili I
Swahili II
