Project

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

Code

DOCT/012594

Duration

11 October 2024 → 21 September 2025 (Ongoing)

Doctoral researcher

Arnaud Bizongwako

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- African languages

Keywords

Bantu Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa historical-comparative linguistics corpus linguistics pragmatics syntax verb conjugation aspect & tense

Project description

My PhD-project combines a corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highlands Bantu, a group of closely related languages from the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa including Kirundi and Kinyarwanda. The in-depth study of this grammatical phenomenon involves building a new Kinyarwanda corpus and collecting new fieldwork data in four poorly known languages from Tanzania.