Researcher
Koen Bostoen
- Disciplines:African languages, Linguistic typology, Diachronic linguistics
Affiliations
- Department of Languages and Cultures (Department)
Member
From1 Jun 2012 → Today - Department of African languages and cultures (Department)
Member
From1 Mar 2005 → 31 May 2012
Projects
1 - 10 of 15
- Divergence and convergence in the history of the Shona languages: contact, migration, and change in a subgroup of Southern African BantuFrom1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Language contact and linguistic reconstruction: (pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspectiveFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- Directionality in morphosyntactic change: West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theoryFrom1 Nov 2020 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- 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 StudyFrom1 Nov 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan speakers in southern AfricaFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
- An archaeological approach on early interactions between hunter-gatherers and sedentary food-producers in Western Central Africa.From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
- A typology of the passive voice in BantuFrom1 Apr 2018 → 30 Mar 2020Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Education replacement ERC Koen BostoenFrom1 Feb 2018 → 31 Jan 2024Funding: Department of Culture, Youth and Media
- ZAP office in Swahili and African linguisticsFrom1 Feb 2018 → 31 Jan 2023Funding: BOF - ZAP BOF mandates
- The First Bantu Speakers South of the Rainforest: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Human Migration, Language Spread, Climate Change and Early Farming in Late Holocene Central AfricaFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
Publications
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- Grammatical tone in the Tense-Aspect-Mood-Polarity system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu B861, DRC)(2024)
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
- The applicative and the focalization of Event Location in Rundi (Bantu JD62)(2024)
Authors: Manoah-Joël Misago, Ernest Nshemezimana, Koen Bostoen, Sara Pacchiarotti, Huy-Linh Dao, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville [missing], Daniel Petit [missing]
Pages: 121 - 163 - The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa(2024)
Authors: Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, Concetta Burgarella, Rickard Hammarén, Anders Eriksson, Mário Vicente, Cecile Jolly, Armando Semo, Hilde Gunnink, Sara Pacchiarotti, Leon Mundeke, et al.
Pages: 540 - 547 - First archaeological excavations along the Atlantic ocean coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo : the Iron Age sites at Muanda(2023)
Authors: Bernard Clist, Philippe Béarez, Caroline Mougne, Joséphine Lesur, Wannes Hubau, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 711 - 739 - Bantu expansion(2023)
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Daniel T. Potts, Ethan Harkness, Jason Neelis, Roderick J. McIntosh
Pages: 1 - 7 - The BantuFirst project : 2022 fieldwork report on the Kwilu-Kasai River reconnaissance and Mashita Mbanza excavations (Democratic Republic of the Congo)(2023)
Authors: Peter Coutros, Igor Roland Matonda Sakala, Arnold Mabuaka Duki, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 29 - 34 - Indigenous knowledge and use of medicinal plants among the Kuria communities in the Tarime and Serengeti districts of Mara Region, Tanzania(2023)
Authors: Mary Zacharia Charwi, Neema Gideon Mogha, Joseph Koni Muluwa, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 288 - 307 - Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history : a new phylogeny in cross-disciplinary perspective(2023)
Authors: Hilde Gunnink, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 74 - 131 - Doorloper : het Kongo-rijk in de vroegmoderne tijd(2022)
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Wouter Smets, Dries De Saveur, Li's Verheyden, Els Vinckx, Tiffany Bousard, Wim Heylen, Frederik Van den Broeck, Sofie Van Eyken
Pages: 27 - 35 - On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar(2022)
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Rozenn Guérois, Sara Pacchiarotti