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
31 - 40 of 191
- The noun class system of Bwala, an undocumented Teke language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)(2021)
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 1 - 40 - Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa(2020)
Authors: Ke Wang, Steven Goldstein, Madeleine Bleasdale, Bernard-Olivier Clist, Koen Bostoen, Paul Bakwa-Lufu, Laura T. Buck, Alison Crowther, Alioune Dème, Roderick J. McIntosh, et al.
- The Bantu expansion : some facts and fiction(2020)
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Mily Crevels, Pieter Muysken
Pages: 227 - 239 - Language and archaeology(2020)
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Rainer Vossen, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Pages: 972 - 982 - The proto-West-Coastal Bantu velar merger(2020)
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 139 - 195 - Kisikongo (Bantu, H16a) present-future isomorphism : a diachronic conspiracy between semantics and phonology(2020)
Authors: Sebastian Dom, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 251 - 288 - Entre modalité et conditionnalité : l’analyse de corpus du préfixe verbal oo- en kirundi (bantou, JD62)(2020)
Authors: Ferdinand Mberamihigo, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 241 - 272 - Word formation(2019)Edition: 2Series: Routledge Language Family Series
Authors: Thilo C. Schadeberg, Koen Bostoen, Mark Van de Velde, Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson
Pages: 172 - 203 - Nsong B85d(2019)Edition: 2Series: Routledge Language Family Series
Authors: Joseph Koni Muluwa, Koen Bostoen, Mark Van de Velde, Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson
Pages: 414 - 448 - Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques 2019 dans les provinces du Kwilu et de Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo(2019)
Authors: Igor Roland Matonda Sakala, Suzanne Bigohe Mugisha, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 19 - 24