Political centralization, economic integration and language evolution in Central Africa: An interdisciplinary approach to the early history of the Kongo kingdom

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 Africa

A historical-comparative approach to phonological and morphological variation in the Kikongo Language Cluster, with a special focus on Cabinda

Chikunda in space and time : A historical-sociolinguistic account

Classifying Chikunda: A reconstruction of morphology and syntax in lower Zambezi Bantu languages

Divergence and convergence in the history of the Shona languages: contact, migration, and change in a subgroup of Southern African Bantu

Doctoral project Barbara Westerveld

Doctoral project Els Cranshof

Doctoral project Ernest Nshemezimana

Doctoral project Ferdinand Mberamihigo

Doctoral project Igor Roland Matonda Sakala

Doctoral project Jasper De Kind

Doctoral project Jean-Pierre Donzo Bunza Yugia

Doctoral project Julien Mbwangi Mbwangi

Doctoral project Sebastian Dom

Doctoral project Sifra Van Acker

Doctoral project So Young Ko

Documenting the sounds of the West-Coastal Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region (DR Congo): an integrated phonetic and diachronic phonological approach

Éléments de description de la phonologie et de la morphologie du cíbìnjì cyà ngúsú, langue bantoue (L231) du Kasaï Central, R.D. Congo

Is it syntax and/or discourse? A combined corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in East-African West Highlands Bantu

Production et circulation de la céramique des trois derniers siècles dans l’aire kongo : une approche combinée des données ethnographiques, muséales et archéologiques

Aspects of the grammar of Ndunga-le, an Ubangi enclave variety spoken around Lisala (DR Congo)

Doctoral project Hilde Gunnink

Doctoral project Jutta De Nul

Doctoral project Katharina Jungnickel

Doctoral project Pieter De Coene

Language contact and shift in the Congo-Ubangi watershed: driving forces, directionality and outcomes

A corpus-driven study of the expression of modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15)

A diachronic and spatial analytical approach to linguistic micro-variation in the Kikongo dialect continuum.

A typology of the passive voice in Bantu

BOF staff support in the framework of an ERC-Grant

BOF-ZAP professorship in Swahili and African linguistics

Directionality in morphosyntactic change: West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theory

Divergence and convergence in the history of the Shona languages: contact, migration, and change in a subgroup of Southern African Bantu

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 Study

Is it syntax and/or discourse? A combined corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in East-African West Highlands Bantu

Language contact and linguistic reconstruction: (pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspective

Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan speakers in southern Africa

Modelling Bantu Analytic Morphosyntax (MBAM): The Mbam languages as a case study in morphosyntactic change

Tense and aspect in Kikongo: A descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach to form and function

The interface between information structure, syntax and prosody in Kikongo. An integrated descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach

The past and present of Bantu languages and speakers

An archaeological approach on early interactions between hunter-gatherers and sedentary food-producers in Western Central Africa.

BOF-ZAP professorship in Swahili and African linguistics