Suffixal phrasemes in Bantu verbal derivation

On May 26, 2021, BantUGent and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) in Tokyo (Japan) have the second kick-off meeting of their FWO-JSPS-funded collaborative project on “The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography“. It also covers BantuFirst research.

9:30-9:40: Opening remarks

9:45-11:15: The first session

9:45-10:15 Koen Bostoen: “Suffixal phrasemes in Bantu verbal derivation”

10:15-10:45 Nobuko Yoneda: “Properties of the subject in Bantu languages”

10:45-11:15 Minah Nabirye: “Information Structure in Lusoga: New Corpus-based Research”

11:15-11:30 Coffee

11:30-13:00: The second session

11:30-12:00 Daisuke Shinagawa: “Morphosyntactic local variation in Chaga”

12:00-12:30 Gilles-Maurice de Schryver: “Bantu lexicography in Asia”

12:30-13:00 General discussion about the project’s research agenda