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
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- 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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- An introduction to reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar(2022)Series: Niger-Congo Comparative Studies
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Rozenn Guérois, Sara Pacchiarotti
Pages: v - xlviii - Reconstructable main clause functions of Proto-Bantu applicative suffix *-ɪd(2022)Series: Niger-Congo Comparative Studies
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen, Rozenn Guérois
Pages: 309 - 341 - The BantuFirst project : 2021 Fieldwork report on the Kwilu-Kasaï-Kamtsha-Loange River reconnaissance mission(2022)
Authors: Peter Coutros, Igor Roland Matonda Sakala, Arnold Mabuaka Duki, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 14 - 21 - Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques 2021 dans la province de Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo(2022)
Authors: Igor Roland Matonda Sakala, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 22 - 28 - A multi-analytical characterization of fourteenth to eighteenth century pottery from the Kongo kingdom, Central Africa(2022)
Authors: Anna Tsoupra, Bernard Clist, Maria da Conceição Lopes, Patricia Moita, Pedro Barrulas, Maria da Piedade de Jesus, Sónia da Silva Domingos, Koen Bostoen, José Mirao
- Reconstructing suffixal phrasemes in Bantu verbal derivation(2022)Series: Niger-Congo Comparative Studies
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Rozenn Guérois, Sara Pacchiarotti
Pages: 343 - 383 - Erratic velars in West-Coastal Bantu : explaining irregular sound change in Central Africa(2022)
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 381 - 445 - Kisikongo (Bantu, H16a) present-future isomorphism(2022)Series: Benjamins current topics
Authors: Sebasian Dom, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen, Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Pages: 105 - 141 - The impact of autochthonous languages on Bantu language variation : a comparative view on southern and central Africa(2022)Series: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Hilde Gunnink, Salikoko Mufwene, Anna Maria Escobar
Pages: 152 - 186 - Reconstructing West-Coastal Bantu vocabulary as evidence for early banana cultivation in Central Africa(2021)
Authors: Sifra Van Acker, Sara Pacchiarotti, Edmond De Langhe, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 285 - 325