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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
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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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- The earliest iron-producing communities in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa : new insights from the Bu, Kindu and Mantsetsi sites(2019)
Authors: Bernard-Olivier Clist, Wannes Hubau, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Hans Beeckman, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 221 - 244 - Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-vowel language? Bantu spirantization and vowel merger in the Kikongo language cluster(2019)
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Heidi Goes
Pages: 25 - 68 - Reconstructing proto-Bantu(2019)Edition: 2Series: Routledge Language Family Series
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Mark Van de Velde, Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson
Pages: 308 - 334 - Introduction(2019)Edition: 2Series: Routledge Language Family Series
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Mark Van de Velde, Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson
Pages: 1 - 13 - Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu(2019)
Authors: Heidi Goes, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 23 - 73 - Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess : identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 languages(2019)
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 155 - 229 - Kitala ware : a new early iron age pottery group from the lower Congo region in Central Africa(2019)
Authors: Bernard-Olivier Clist, Mandela Kaumba, Igor Roland Matonda Sakala, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 455 - 477 - The Bantu languages(2019)
Authors: Mark Van de Velde, Koen Bostoen, Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson
- Les pipes en terre cuite et en pierre(2018)
Authors: Bernard-Olivier Clist, Pierre de Maret, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 303 - 334 - Fouilles et prospections dans le territoire de Tshela(2018)
Authors: Bernard-Olivier Clist, Igor Roland Matonda Sakala, Roger Kidebua, Pierre de Maret, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 203 - 209