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Central African hunter-gatherer music lexicon does not predate the Bantu expansion

Hilde Gunnink (UGent) , Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) , Guy Kouarata (UGent) , Paulin Baraka Bose (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2025) SocArXiv.
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Yeyi : a phylogenetic loner in Eastern Bantu

Hilde Gunnink (UGent) , Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2025) LANGUAGES. 10(4).
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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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The Early Bantu expansion into Central Africa : new data and insights from population genetics

Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) , Lorenzo Maselli (UGent) , Jean-Pierre Donzo Bunza Yugia (UGent) , Guy Kouarata (UGent) , Joseph Koni Muluwa (UGent) , Léon Mundeke, Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Carina Schlebusch

(2025) An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest. p.172-194
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Niger-Congo archaeolinguistics, including Bantu

Koen Bostoen (UGent) , Peter Coutros (UGent) and Carina Schlebusch

(2025) The Oxford handbook of archaeology and language. p.592-618
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Verb-final subject suffixes in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu B861, DRC) : language-internal innovation or language-external imposition?

Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2025) Areas, families, and pools aplenty : a Festschrift for Tom Güldemann. p.195-212
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Language and history in Bantu-speaking Africa

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2025) The Oxford guide to the Bantu languages. p.17-27
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The history of Bantu languages

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2025) Reference module in social sciences. p.1-7
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Out-of-the-box GPTs for lexicography

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2025) LEXIKOS. 35(2). p.362-396
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Recordings and database on Tunen syntax and information structure

Elisabeth J. Kerr (UGent)

(2024)
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The road towards fine-tuned LLMs for lexicography

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2024) Book of Abstracts of the Workshop 'Large Language Models and Lexicography', 8 October 2024, Cavtat, Croatia. p.6-11
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The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest : the first archaeological investigations around Idiofa (Congo), c. 146 BC - AD 1648

Peter Coutros (UGent) , Igor Roland Matonda Sakala (UGent) , Jessamy Doman (UGent) , Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) , Isis Mesfin and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2024) AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA. 59(2). p.213-248
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The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, Concetta Burgarella, Rickard Hammarén, Anders Eriksson, Mário Vicente, Cecile Jolly, Armando Semo, Hilde Gunnink (UGent) , Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) , Leon Mundeke, et al.

(2024) NATURE. 625(7995). p.540-547
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Generative Artificial Intelligence & Three Lexicographic Fs : FANTASTIC for monolingual English dictionaries, FAKE for translation dictionaries, FAIL for exotic dictionaries

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2024) Paper presented at the Department of English, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA, 5 April 2024.
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Syntactic control and progressive-evidential polyfunctionality : the conjoint/disjoint in Ndengeleko (Bantu P11-12)

Eva-Marie Bloom Ström and Aron Zahran (UGent)

(2024) LINGUISTIQUE ET LANGUES AFRICAINES. 10(2).
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Vowel harmony and the morphophonology of the verb ending *-ide in the Kikongo Language Cluster (West-Coastal Bantu) : a historical-comparative analysis

Heidi Goes (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2024) STUDIES IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS. 53(1). p.35-83
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Phonetic and phonological research in Mai-Ndombe : a few preliminary notes on rhotics and double-articulations

Lorenzo Maselli (UGent)

(2024) LANGUAGES. 9(3).
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Sound change versus lexical change for subgrouping : word-final lenition of Proto-Bantu *ŋg in West-Coastal Bantu

Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) , Guy Kouarata (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2024) LANGUAGE DYNAMICS AND CHANGE. 14(1). p.1-73
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Reflexive-reciprocal syncretism in eastern Bantu languages of Tanzania : distribution and origins

Aron Zahran (UGent) and Sebastian Dom (UGent)

(2024) LANGUAGES. 9(11).
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The applicative and the focalization of Event Location in Rundi (Bantu JD62)

Manoah-Joël Misago (UGent) , Ernest Nshemezimana (UGent) , Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent)

(2024) L'applicatif dans les langues : regard typologique. p.121-163
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Du tipoj de vokalharmonio en la Kikongo Lingvo-Areto

Heidi Goes (UGent)

(2024) Internacia Kongresa Universitato : 77-a sesio. p.48-64
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Reflexive morphology in the Kikongo language cluster : variation and diachrony

Sebastian Dom (UGent)

(2024) LANGUAGES. 9(3).
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Reflexive-reciprocal polysemy in South-Western Bantu : distribution, typology, and origins

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2024) Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu. p.341-367
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Grammatical tone in the Tense-Aspect-Mood-Polarity system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu B861, DRC)

Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2024) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 30. p.159-207
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Mbosi concessive conditionals in typological perspective

Tom Bossuyt (UGent) and Guy Kouarata (UGent)

(2024) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 30. p.3-37
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Tunen syntax and information structure

Elisabeth J. Kerr (UGent)

(2024) In LOT dissertation series
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Aspect and evidentiality in four Bantu languages

Thera Marie Crane, Hilde Gunnink (UGent) , Ponsiano Kanijo and Tim Roth

(2024) Beyond aspectual semantics : explorations in the pragmatic and cognitive realms of aspect. p.177-206
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Bantu expansion

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2023) The encyclopedia of ancient history : Asia and Africa. p.1-7
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Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history : a new phylogeny in cross-disciplinary perspective

Hilde Gunnink (UGent) , Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2023) LANGUAGE DYNAMICS AND CHANGE. 13(1). p.74-131
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Contact influence in the Tjhauba variety of Kgalagadi

Hilde Gunnink (UGent)

(2023) AFRIKA UND ÜBERSEE. 96(1). p.52-95
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The noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, an East Ruvu Bantu language of Tanzania

Sebastian Dom (UGent) , Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo and Malin Petzell

(2023) JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS. 44(2). p.129-153
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Middle voice in Bantu : in- and detransitivizing morphology in Kagulu

Sebastian Dom (UGent) , Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo and Malin Petzell

(2023) STUF-LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY AND UNIVERSALS. 76(2). p.195-216
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Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations

Elisabeth J. Kerr (UGent) , Allen Asiimwe, Patrick Kanampiu, Zhen Li, Ernest Nshemezimana and Jenneke van der Wal

(2023) LINGUISTIQUE ET LANGUES AFRICAINES. 9(1).
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Indirect truth marking via backgrounding : evidence from Bantu

Elisabeth J. Kerr (UGent) and Jenneke Van der Wal

(2023) ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT. 42(3). p.443-492
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A historical-comparative approach to the Kikongo Language Cluster, with a special focus on Cabinda

Heidi Goes (UGent)

(2023) AFRIKA FOCUS. 36(2). p.309-323
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Éléments de description de la phonologie et de la morphologie du cíbìnjì cyà ngúsú, langue bantoue (L231) du Kasaï Central, R.D. Congo

Michel Onokoko Onyumbe

(2022)
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Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2022) Dictionaries and society : Book of Abstracts of the 20th EURALEX International Congress. p.233-233
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Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2022) Dictionaries and society : proceedings of the 20th EURALEX International Congress. p.833-849
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Reconstructing suffixal phrasemes in Bantu verbal derivation

Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Rozenn Guérois (UGent)

(2022) On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar. In Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 4. p.343-383
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An introduction to reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2022) On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar. In Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 4. p.v-xlviii
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Kisikongo (Bantu, H16a) present-future isomorphism

Sebasian Dom, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2022) Development of tense and aspect systems. In Benjamins current topics 123. p.105-141
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A grammar sketch of the Shetjhauba variety of Shekgalagadi

Hilde Gunnink (UGent)

(2022) STUDIES IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS. 51(1). p.29-55
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The impact of autochthonous languages on Bantu language variation : a comparative view on southern and central Africa

Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Hilde Gunnink (UGent)

(2022) The Cambridge handbook of language contact : volume 1 : population movement and language change. In Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics p.152-186
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Reduplication in Lusoga

Michael R. Marlo, Minah Nabirye (UGent) and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2022) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 28. p.147-197
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The early history of clicks in Nguni

Hilde Gunnink (UGent)

(2022) DIACHRONICA. 39(3). p.311-368
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Morphological Khoisan influence in the Southern African Bantu language Yeyi

Hilde Gunnink (UGent)

(2022) JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS. 43(1). p.3-35
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The insubordinated infinitive in Makhuwa-Enahara and the expression of feelings

Iris Kruijsdijk, Nina van der Vlugt (UGent) and Jenneke van der Wal

(2022) LINGUISTICS IN THE NETHERLANDS. 39(1). p.122-142
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The noun class system of Bwala, an undocumented Teke language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)

Flore Bollaert, Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2021) NORDIC JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES. 30(1). p.1-40
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Bantu lexicography in Asia

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2021)
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Typology and evolution of diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster

Heidi Goes (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2021) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 27. p.59-102
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The Bantu expansion : some facts and fiction

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2020) Language dispersal, diversification, and contact. p.227-239
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Linguistics terminology and neologisms in Swahili : rules vs. practice

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2020) DICTIONARIES. 41(1). p.83-104
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Kisikongo (Bantu, H16a) present-future isomorphism : a diachronic conspiracy between semantics and phonology

Sebastian Dom (UGent) , Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2020) JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS. 10(2). p.251-288
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(Non-)specificity and case in Gorwaa : the -oo/-(h)ee suffix

Elisabeth J. Kerr (UGent)

(2020) ConSOLE XXVIII : proceedings of the 28th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. In Proceedings of ConSOLE p.156-174
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The Bantu languages

Mark Van de Velde, Koen Bostoen (UGent) , Derek Nurse and Gérard Philippson

(2019) In Routledge Language Family Series
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Introduction

Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Mark Van de Velde

(2019) The Bantu languages. In Routledge Language Family Series p.1-13
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Word formation

Thilo C. Schadeberg and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2019) The Bantu languages. In Routledge Language Family Series p.172-203
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Reconstructing proto-Bantu

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2019) The Bantu languages. In Routledge Language Family Series p.308-334
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Nsong B85d

Joseph Koni Muluwa (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2019) The Bantu languages. In Routledge Language Family Series p.414-448
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A corpus-driven study of the expression of necessity in Luganda (Bantu, JE15)

Deo Kawalya, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2019) SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES. 37(4). p.361-381
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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu

Heidi Goes (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2019) JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS. 40(1). p.23-73
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Linguistics terminology and neologisms in Swahili : rules vs. practice

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Jutta De Nul (UGent)

(2019) 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America and Studies in the History of the English Language 11. p.56-57
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The fronted-infinitive construction in Fwe

Hilde Gunnink (UGent)

(2019) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 25. p.65-88
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Les réflexes du proto-bantu en cíbìnjì cyà ngúsú, langue bantu L231 (Kasaï Central, RD Congo)

Michel Onokoko Onyumbe and Joseph Koni Muluwa (UGent)

(2019) NORDIC JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES. 28(3). p.1-30
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Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax

Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2019) Get to know your colleagues.
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Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, part 3 : mapping meaning onto use in Lusoga

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2018) LEXIKOS. 28. p.112-151
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Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, part 1 : organic corpus building for Lusoga

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2018) LEXIKOS. 28. p.32-78
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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography, part 2 : lemmatisation and rulers for Lusoga

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2018) LEXIKOS. 28. p.79-111
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Introduction : Valency-decreasing derivations and quasi-middles in Bantu : a typological perspective

Sebastian Dom (UGent) , Leonid Kulikov (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2018) SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES. 36(3). p.165-173
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The diachronic semantics of the dissociative past completive construction in the Kikongo language Cluster (Bantu)

Sebastian Dom (UGent) , Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2018) FOLIA LINGUISTICA. 52(Suppl 39). p.297-340
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Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective : the Kikongo Language Cluster and beyond

Sebastian Dom (UGent)

(2018)
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Langues et évolution linguistique dans le royaume et l’aire kongo

Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2018) Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo. p.51-55
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The Bantu expansion

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2018) Oxford research encyclopedia of African history.
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Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus

Manoah-Joël Misago (UGent)

(2018)
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The middle as a voice category in Bantu : setting the stage for further research

Sebastian Dom (UGent) , Leonid Kulikov (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2018) LINGUA POSNANIENSIS. 58(2). p.129-149
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A grammar of Fwe : a Bantu language of Zambia and Namibia

Hilde Gunnink (UGent)

(2018)
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Reconstructing the origins of the Luganda (JE15) modal auxiliaries -sóból- and -yînz-: A historical-comparative study across the West Nyanza Bantu cluster

Deo Kawalya (UGent) , Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2018) SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES. 38(1). p.13-25
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From conditionality to modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) : a synchronic and diachronic corpus analysis of the verbal prefix -andi-

Deo Kawalya (UGent) , Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2018) JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS. 127. p.84-106
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On the origins of passive allomorphy in Cuwabo (Bantu P34)

Rozenn Guérois (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2018) SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES. 36(3). p.211-233
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The Kongo kingdom : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity

Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Inge Brinkman (UGent)

(2018)
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Bibliometrics in Bantu Lexical and Grammatical Reconstructions: A.E. Meeussen and Beyond

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2018)
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The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Kirundi (JD62) : a case for its abolition

Ernest Nshemezimana (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2017) The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu. p.390-425
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A sketch of Lower Nyole tone

Michael R. Marlo, Minah Nabirye (UGent) , Deo Kawalya (UGent) and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2017) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 23. p.215-257
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Locative clitics in Fwe

Hilde Gunnink (UGent)

(2017) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 23. p.119-136
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Locative enclitics in Cuwabo

Rozenn Guérois (UGent)

(2017) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 23. p.85-117
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Linguistique historique

Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2017) Manuel de terrain en archéologie africaine. p.257-260
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Cleft constructions and focus in Kirundi

Mena Lafkioui, Ernest Nshemezimana (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2016) AFRICANA LINGUISTICA. 22. p.71-106
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A corpus-based grammar of Lusoga

Minah Nabirye (UGent)

(2016)
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Morphosyntaxe et structure informationnelle en kirundi: focus et stratégies de focalisation

Ernest Nshemezimana (UGent)

(2016)
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A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho

Elsabé Taljard and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2016) SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES. 34(2). p.169-185
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Bantu lexical reconstruction

Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Yvonne Bastin

(2016) Oxford Handbooks Online. p.1-31
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Langues bantoues de l’entre Congo-Ubangi (RD Congo): documentation, reconstruction, classification et contacts avec les langues oubanguiennes

Jean-Pierre Donzo Bunza Yugia (UGent)

(2015)
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Prehistoric language contact in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier area: Khoisan influence on southwestern Bantu languages

Hilde Gunnink (UGent) , Bonny Sands, Brigitte Pakendorf and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2015) JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS. 36(2). p.193-232
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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa

Jasper De Kind (UGent) , Sebastian Dom (UGent) , Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2015) FOLIA LINGUISTICA HISTORICA. 36(1). p.113-163
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The antipassive in Bantu

Koen Bostoen (UGent) , Sebastian Dom (UGent) and Guillaume Segerer

(2015) LINGUISTICS. 53(4). p.731-772
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Antipassive/associative polysemy in Cilubà (Bantu, L31a): a plurality of relations analysis

Sebastian Dom (UGent) , Guillaume Segerer and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2015) STUDIES IN LANGUAGE. 39(2). p.354-385
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A grammar of Cuwabo (Mozambique, Bantu P34)

Rozenn Guérois (UGent)

(2015)
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On the most innovative outer access structure of any Bantu dictionary: the lexique kikongo: français by Charles Polis (1938)

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2015) LEXIKOS. 25. p.56-135
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Linguistic innovation, political centralization and economic integration in the Kongo kingdom: reconstructing the spread of prefix reduction

Koen Bostoen (UGent) and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)

(2015) DIACHRONICA. 32(2). p.139-185
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Lexique comparé des langues bantu du Kwilu (République démocratique du Congo)

Joseph Koni Muluwa (UGent) and Koen Bostoen (UGent)

(2015) 48.

Central African hunter-gatherer music lexicon does not predate the Bantu expansion

Yeyi : a phylogenetic loner in Eastern Bantu

Modality in Swahili : epistemic modal adverbs in Swahili : insights from a historical Swahili corpus

The Early Bantu expansion into Central Africa : new data and insights from population genetics

Niger-Congo archaeolinguistics, including Bantu

Verb-final subject suffixes in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu B861, DRC) : language-internal innovation or language-external imposition?

Language and history in Bantu-speaking Africa

The history of Bantu languages

Out-of-the-box GPTs for lexicography

Recordings and database on Tunen syntax and information structure

The road towards fine-tuned LLMs for lexicography

The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest : the first archaeological investigations around Idiofa (Congo), c. 146 BC - AD 1648

The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Generative Artificial Intelligence & Three Lexicographic Fs : FANTASTIC for monolingual English dictionaries, FAKE for translation dictionaries, FAIL for exotic dictionaries

Syntactic control and progressive-evidential polyfunctionality : the conjoint/disjoint in Ndengeleko (Bantu P11-12)

Vowel harmony and the morphophonology of the verb ending *-ide in the Kikongo Language Cluster (West-Coastal Bantu) : a historical-comparative analysis

Phonetic and phonological research in Mai-Ndombe : a few preliminary notes on rhotics and double-articulations

Sound change versus lexical change for subgrouping : word-final lenition of Proto-Bantu *ŋg in West-Coastal Bantu

Reflexive-reciprocal syncretism in eastern Bantu languages of Tanzania : distribution and origins

The applicative and the focalization of Event Location in Rundi (Bantu JD62)

Du tipoj de vokalharmonio en la Kikongo Lingvo-Areto

Reflexive morphology in the Kikongo language cluster : variation and diachrony

Reflexive-reciprocal polysemy in South-Western Bantu : distribution, typology, and origins

Grammatical tone in the Tense-Aspect-Mood-Polarity system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu B861, DRC)

Mbosi concessive conditionals in typological perspective

Tunen syntax and information structure

Aspect and evidentiality in four Bantu languages

Bantu expansion

Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history : a new phylogeny in cross-disciplinary perspective

Contact influence in the Tjhauba variety of Kgalagadi

The noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, an East Ruvu Bantu language of Tanzania

Middle voice in Bantu : in- and detransitivizing morphology in Kagulu

Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations

Indirect truth marking via backgrounding : evidence from Bantu

A historical-comparative approach to the Kikongo Language Cluster, with a special focus on Cabinda

Éléments de description de la phonologie et de la morphologie du cíbìnjì cyà ngúsú, langue bantoue (L231) du Kasaï Central, R.D. Congo

Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga

Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga

Reconstructing suffixal phrasemes in Bantu verbal derivation

An introduction to reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar

Kisikongo (Bantu, H16a) present-future isomorphism

A grammar sketch of the Shetjhauba variety of Shekgalagadi

The impact of autochthonous languages on Bantu language variation : a comparative view on southern and central Africa

Reduplication in Lusoga

The early history of clicks in Nguni

Morphological Khoisan influence in the Southern African Bantu language Yeyi

The insubordinated infinitive in Makhuwa-Enahara and the expression of feelings

The noun class system of Bwala, an undocumented Teke language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)

Bantu lexicography in Asia

Typology and evolution of diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster

The Bantu expansion : some facts and fiction

Linguistics terminology and neologisms in Swahili : rules vs. practice

Kisikongo (Bantu, H16a) present-future isomorphism : a diachronic conspiracy between semantics and phonology

(Non-)specificity and case in Gorwaa : the -oo/-(h)ee suffix

The Bantu languages

Introduction

Word formation

Reconstructing proto-Bantu

Nsong B85d

A corpus-driven study of the expression of necessity in Luganda (Bantu, JE15)

Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu

Linguistics terminology and neologisms in Swahili : rules vs. practice

The fronted-infinitive construction in Fwe

Les réflexes du proto-bantu en cíbìnjì cyà ngúsú, langue bantu L231 (Kasaï Central, RD Congo)

Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax

Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, part 3 : mapping meaning onto use in Lusoga

Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, part 1 : organic corpus building for Lusoga

Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography, part 2 : lemmatisation and rulers for Lusoga

Introduction : Valency-decreasing derivations and quasi-middles in Bantu : a typological perspective

The diachronic semantics of the dissociative past completive construction in the Kikongo language Cluster (Bantu)

Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective : the Kikongo Language Cluster and beyond

Langues et évolution linguistique dans le royaume et l’aire kongo

The Bantu expansion

Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus

The middle as a voice category in Bantu : setting the stage for further research

A grammar of Fwe : a Bantu language of Zambia and Namibia

Reconstructing the origins of the Luganda (JE15) modal auxiliaries -sóból- and -yînz-: A historical-comparative study across the West Nyanza Bantu cluster

From conditionality to modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) : a synchronic and diachronic corpus analysis of the verbal prefix -andi-

On the origins of passive allomorphy in Cuwabo (Bantu P34)

The Kongo kingdom : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity