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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- 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 → TodayFunding: 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
- 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
- Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan speakers in southern AfricaFrom1 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 → TodayFunding: 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 → TodayFunding: H2020 - Frontier Research (ERC)
- Tense and aspect in Kikongo: A descriptive, comparative and
diachronic approach to form and functionFrom1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: FWO fellowships, BOF - Other initiatives
Publications
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- Kolonialisme en modern imperialisme (19e eeuw)(2023)
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Birgit Reusens, Margot De Meyer, Inge Brinkman, Hans Smolderen
Pages: 112 - 147 - 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 - 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 - Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques 2021 dans la province de Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo(2022)
Authors: Igor Matonda Sakala, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 22 - 28 - 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 - 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 - The BantuFirst project : 2021 Fieldwork report on the Kwilu-Kasaï-Kamtsha-Loange River reconnaissance mission(2022)
Authors: Peter Coutros, Igor Matonda Sakala, Arnold Mabuaka Duki, Isidore Nkanu Tsatsa, Koen Bostoen
Pages: 14 - 21 - An introduction to reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar(2022)Series: Niger-Congo Comparative Studies
Authors: Koen Bostoen, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, 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, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Rozenn Guérois
Pages: 309 - 341