PAST EVENTS
DCLS Colloquium
Date | 21 March 2023 Location | University of Zurich Presentation by Maarten Mous at the Department of Comparative Language Sciences Colloquium: Fusion of related languages: the case of the Rangi and Mbugwe Bantu languages of Tanzania. Abstract: Within our project on the linguistic history of East Africa (https://lheaf.org/), one of contact zones that we…
See moreFieldwork in Tanzania
Date | 5 – 20 March 2023 Location | Tanzania Fieldwork in Tanzania (Maarten Mous) From 5-20th March 2023 Maarten Mous accompanied Didier Demolin on a research trip to Tanzania. They did phonetic research on the Mbugu nasals in the Usambara mountains with Michael Karani of DSM university; checked Iraqw number marking on nouns and…
See moreLUCL Colloquium
Date | 11 November 2022 Location | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics Presentation by Maarten Mous, Christan Rapold, Ahmed Sosal: The relevance of Cushitic for the linguistic history of East Africa.
See moreBantUGent-ILCAA Joint Research Workshop
Date | 1-2 September 2022 Location | Ghent University The Past and Present of Bantu Languages Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography Presentation by Maarten Mous & Iris Kruijsdijk: The complex history of Mbugwe (F34, Tanzania).
See more52nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Date | 29-31 August 2022 Location | Leiden East Africa Workshop
See moreInternational Conference on Historical Linguistics
Date | 1-5 August 2022 Location | Oxford Posters: Historical development of pluratives in Cushitic (Ahmed Sosal) Proto-Southern Nilotic *ɬVɬ was *RVɬ (Christian Rapold) Presentation: “Numerals as history of East African languages” (Maarten Mous).
Read MoreLUCL Summer School
Date | 13-18 June 2022 Location | Leiden University Courses taught by Ahmed Sosal, Christian Rapold, Andrew Harvey and Maarten Mous.
Read MoreFieldwork in Tanzania
Date | 20 June-14 July 2022 Location | Tanzania Fieldwork in Tanzania (Maarten Mous) Arusha: phonetic experiments on Iraqw with Didier Demolin and Alain Ghio Kwermusl: Iraqw nominal number, onomatopoeia, interjections, expectational tense, vowel length before NC clusters, vowel length in verbal derivation, hither Haydom: Datooga loans in Iraqw dictionary Magugu: Mbugwe, Nyiramba, Nyaturu lexicon,…
Read MoreLIME Field School
Date | 13-18 June 2022 Location | University of Zomba, Malawi Maarten Mous teaching at LIME field school at University of Zomba, Malawi; discussions with Jean Chavula.
Read More9th Bantu Conference
Date | 7-10 June 2022 Location | Blantyre, Malawi Presentation (key note) by Maarten Mous: Ethnic and linguistic reconstitution among Bantu languages: The cases of Rangi (F33) and Mbugwe (F34) in Tanzania.
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