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prof. Maud Devos

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy > Department of Languages and cultures

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A dehumanising famine

Mark Obure-Morang'a (UGent) , Maud Devos (UGent) and Inge Brinkman (UGent)

(2026) African storytelling and images in teaching : youth and crisis management through folktales and visuals from Kenya and Ethiopia. p.47-56
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Negative indefinite constructions in Bantu : 'nobody'

Maud Devos (UGent) , Johan van der Auwera and Rasmus Bernander

(2025) LANGUAGES. 10(6).
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Participant-external necessity verbs in Swahili

Rasmus Bernander, Maud Devos (UGent) , Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Ponsiano Kanijo

(2025) Book of Abstracts : Syntax of the World’s Languages X, September 8-11, 2025, Potsdam, Germany. p.35-36
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Modality in Swahili : epistemic modal adverbs in Swahili : insights from a historical Swahili corpus

Rasmus Bernander, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) , Maud Devos (UGent) and Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2025) Abstracts of Kongamano la Kiswahili la 37 / 37th Swahili Colloquium : Uhuru na Ubunifu / Freedom and Creativity, Bayreuth University, Germany, 30 May – 1 June 2025.
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Mwenda bure si mkaa bure huenda akaokota [Better to wander idly than to sit idly, as one might come across something] / Diachronic, comparative & synchronic queries into the origin and development of the epistemic possibility adverb 'huenda'

Maud Devos (UGent) , Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2024) Presentation at the start-up meeting for the RJ-funded project ‘Modality in Swahili – Variation, Change and Transfer’.
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The verb -weza in and out of Swahili

Rasmus Bernander, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) , Maud Devos (UGent) and Ponsiano Kanijo

(2024) Abstracts of the 11th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 11). p.201-203
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Swahili impact in the strong necessity domain : lazima & mpaka (& hatta and sharti/shuruti)

Rasmus Bernander, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) , Maud Devos (UGent) and Ponsiano Kanijo

(2024) 10th International Conference on Bantu Languages, Book of Abstracts. p.175-176
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Transcription of Swahili theatre play ‘Nzala ya ndugu si mutu’ by Kwale Arts Troupe

Inge Brinkman (UGent) , Mark Obure-Morang'a (UGent) and Maud Devos (UGent)

(2024)
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Bantu negative verbs : a typological-comparative investigation of form, function and distribution

Rasmus Bernander, Maud Devos (UGent) and Hannah Gibson

(2023) LINGUISTIQUE ET LANGUES AFRICAINES. 9(1).
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The negative existential cycle in Bantu

Rasmus Bernander, Maud Devos (UGent) and Hannah Gibson (UGent)

(2022) The negative existential cycle. In Research on Comparative Grammar p.59-113

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