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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
21 - 30 of 191
- The evolution of the noun class system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861, DRC)(2021)
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 11 - 67 - Vansina (Jan)(2021)
Authors: Koen Bostoen
Number of pages: 1 - Inheritance and contact in the diversification of Southern Bantu languages(2021)
Authors: Hilde Gunnink, Natalia Chousou Polydouri, Koen Bostoen
Number of pages: 1 - Typology and evolution of diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster(2021)
Authors: Heidi Goes, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 59 - 102 - The emergence of interior vowels and heterosyllabic vowel sequences in Ngwi (Bantu B861, DRC)(2021)
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Lorenzo Maselli, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 107 - 146 - Final vowel loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (DRC) as a contact-induced change(2021)
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 438 - 476 - Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques le long du bas Kasaï dans les provinces du Kwilu et du Mai-Ndombe (RDC)(2021)
Authors: Igor Roland Matonda Sakala, Suzanne Bigohe Mugisha, Clément Mambu, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 25 - 30 - Labial-velar stops outside the Macro-Sudan Belt : new evidence from Lwel (West-Coastal Bantu, B862)(2021)
Authors: Lorenzo Maselli, Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 141 - 164 - Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion(2021)
Authors: Dirk Verschuren, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Pierre de Maret, Carina M. Schlebusch, Koen Bostoen
- Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers(2021)
Authors: Dhriti Sengupta, Ananyo Choudhury, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Shaun Aron, Gavin Whitelaw, Koen Bostoen, Hilde Gunnink, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Peter Delius, Stephen Tollman, et al.