Bantu lexicography in Asia

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