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Project

The interface between information structure, syntax and prosody in Kikongo. An integrated descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach
Code
3F006612
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
Kikongo comparative linguistics information structure Bantu syntax historical linguistics prosody African languages Africa Linguistics
 
Project description

The proposed PhD Project aims at studying Information Structure (IS) of Kikongo. Such study is unprecedented for a western Bantu language. The research is both descriptive and comparative, since IS of different Kikongo languages will be compared. Moreover, a historical dimension will be added through the integration of the oldest remaining written Bantu sources (17th century), which are in Kikongo.