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Project

A diachronic and spatial analytical approach to linguistic micro-variation in the Kikongo dialect continuum.
Code
01N02114
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 January 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
Bantu Kikongo historical-comparative linguistics spatiale analysis dialectology
 
Project description
 

The proposed research project aims at: (a) identifying the broadest possible set of linguistic parameters along which Kikongo manifests micro-variation; (b) calculating linguistic distances between Kikongo varieties through computational techniques; (c) understanding how the Kikongo dialect continuum was shaped through time; (d) comprehending the role extra-linguistic phenomena played in the shaping of patterns of regional variation.