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Browsing Research Articles (African Languages) by Author "Bostoen, Koen"
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Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Herremans, Davy; Karklins, Karlis; Matonda, Igor; Steyaert, Fanny; Bostoen, Koen (Springer, 2015-08)Ngongo Mbata, the main and most affluent center of the Kongo kingdom’s Mbata province in the seventeenth century, is well known from the historical sources, but virtually unexplored in archaeological publications. Ngongo ...
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Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Maret, Pierre; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Kaumba, Mandela; Matonda, Igor; Nikis, Nicolas; Bostoen, Koen (Antiquity Publications, 2015-10)The Kongo kingdom, which arose in Central Africa’s Atlantic coast region, is an emblem of Africa’s past and an important cultural landmark for Africans and the African Diaspora (Figure 1). As a result of its early ...
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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2019)This article reports on the analysis of three major markers of necessity in Luganda, i.e. the modal auxiliaries -téekw- and -lina and the verbal prefix -andi-. On the basis a 4-million-word corpus it is argued that, overall, ...
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Kawalya, Deo; Bostoen, Koen; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (John Benjamins Publishing, 2021-08)This article employs a 4-million-word diachronic corpus to examine how the expression of possibility has evolved in Luganda since the 1890s to the present, by focusing on the language’s three main potential markers -yînz-, ...
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Dom, Sebastian; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (De Gruyter, 2018)This article aims to give a semantic study of the reflexes of one specific tense/aspect form, namely the so-called *-a-B-a construction, in a cluster of about 40-odd Kikongo language varieties spoken in a wide area around ...
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Kawalya, Deo; Bostoen, Koen; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (John Benjamins Publishing, 2014)In this article the semantic evolution of the modal verb -sóból- in Luganda is examined through the analysis of a diachronic corpus spanning the last 120 years. It is shown that the usage frequency of this verb increased ...
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Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Herremans, Davy; Karklins, Karlis; Matonda, Igorff; Polet, Caroline; Sengeløv, Amanda; Steyaert, Fanny; Verhaeghe, Charlotte; Bostoen, Koen (Springer, 2015-09)We present results, analyses, and an in-depth historical contextualization of the fieldwork undertaken in 2012 and 2013 at the Kindoki site in the Lower Congo (DRC). This site is linked to Mbanza Nsundi, one of the ...
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Mberamihigo, Ferdinand; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (University of Florida Press, 2020-09)In the Bantu language Kirundi (JD62), the verbal prefix oo- has traditionally been described as either conditional or potential. In this article, we show by means of a corpus-based analysis of its uses that it is first and ...
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Mberamihigo, Ferdinand; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (De Gruyter, 2016-10)La présente étude concerne l’évolution sémantique et formelle d’un adverbe épistémique du kirundi, umeengo/umeenga, les deux formes constituant des variantes libres. Elle est une des premières études s’inscrivant en ...
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De Kind, Jasper; Dom, Sebastian; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (De Gruyter, 2015-11)Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo ...
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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (Elsevier, 2018-04)This article offers a synchronic and diachronic analysis of the use and meaning of the verbal prefix -andi- in the Great Lakes Bantu language Luganda (JE15). On the basis of a text corpus of 4 million tokens, we show that ...
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Dom, Sebastian; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (John Benjamins Publishing, 2020)The North-Angolan Bantu language Kisikongo has a present tense (O-Rang- a; R=root) that is morphologically more marked than the future tense (O-R-a). We reconstruct how this typologically uncommon tense-marking feature ...
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Matonda, Igor; Cranshof, Els; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Clist, Bernard; Bostoen, Koen (Centre d'études pour l'action sociale, 2015-06)No abstract available.
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Bostoen, Koen; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (John Benjamins Publishing, 2015-02)In this article we reconstruct the actuation and transmission of a phonological innovation known as prefix reduction within the Kikongo language cluster situated in the wider Lower Congo region of Central Africa. We argue ...
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Bostoen, Koen; Tshiyayi, Odjas Ndonda; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Peeters Online Journals, 2013)This article offers an in‑depth historical‑comparative linguistic account of the origin and etymology of ngangula. This term is not only a widespread blacksmith term in the Lower Congo region, but also a traditional royal ...
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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2018)In this article, a comparison is made of the expression of possibility in West Nyanza Bantu languages in order to reconstruct the origins of Luganda’s two most frequent possibility markers, viz. the near-synonymous auxiliaries ...
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