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Researcher

Sifra Van Acker

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5 Results

2025

The lifeworld of the Kwilu-Kasai region’s first Bantu speakers : insights from lexical reconstruction

Koen BostoenJessamy DomanSara PacchiarottiSifra Van Acker

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

2024

The introduction of sugarcane in West-Central Africa : insights from comparative Bantu word histories

Sifra Van AckerSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in NORDIC JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES

2021

Reconstructing West-Coastal Bantu vocabulary as evidence for early banana cultivation in Central Africa

Sifra Van AckerSara PacchiarottiEdmond De LangheKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in STUDIES IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS

2020

Inheritance and contact in the genesis of Gisamba (Bantu, L12a, DRC) : a diachronic phonological approach

Sifra Van AckerKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in LINGUISTIQUE ET LANGUES AFRICAINES

2018

A historical-linguistic approach to the subsistence of the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest : the banana case

Sifra Van AckerSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen