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  1. Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, November 2022, Brill

    Koen Bostoen, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri

  2. Erratic velars in West-Coastal Bantu

    Article • Journal of Historical Linguistics, June 2022, John Benjamins

    Sara Pacchiarotti, Koen Bostoen

  3. Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (drc) as a Contact-Induced Change

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, December 2021, Brill

    Koen Bostoen, Sara Pacchiarotti

  4. A diachronic corpus-driven study of the expression of possibility in Luganda (Bantu, JE15)

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, August 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen

  5. Kisikongo (Bantu, H16a) present-future isomorphism

    Article • Journal of Historical Linguistics, August 2020, John Benjamins

    Koen Bostoen, Professor Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Mr Sebastian Dom

  6. Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, July 2019, De Gruyter

    Koen Bostoen

  7. Valency-decreasing derivations and quasi-middles in Bantu: A typological perspective

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Sebastian Dom, Dr Leonid Kulikov, Koen Bostoen

  8. On the origins of passive allomorphy in Cuwabo (Bantu P34)

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Koen Bostoen

  9. The middle as a voice category in Bantu: Setting the stage for further research

    Article • Lingua Posnaniensis, December 2017, De Gruyter

    Mr Sebastian Dom, Koen Bostoen

  10. Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, January 2017, Brill

    Koen Bostoen

  11. 14. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Kirundi (JD62): A case for its abolition

    Article • January 2016, De Gruyter

    Koen Bostoen

  12. Combined Spectroscopic Analysis of Beads from the Tombs of Kindoki, Lower Congo Province (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

    Article • Applied Spectroscopy, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Koen Bostoen

  13. Entre verbe et adverbe : Grammaticalisation et dégrammaticalisation du marqueur épistémique umeengo/umeenga en kirundi (bantou, JD62)

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Mr Ferdinand Mberamihigo, Mr Ferdinand Mberamihigo, Koen Bostoen

  14. Linguistic innovation, political centralization and economic integration in the Kongo kingdom

    Article • Diachronica, October 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen

  15. Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Koen Bostoen

  16. The Elusive Archaeology of Kongo Urbanism: the Case of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi (Lower Congo, DRC)

    Article • African Archaeological Review, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Koen Bostoen

  17. Antipassive/associative polysemy in Cilubà (Bantu, L31a)

    Article • Studies in Language, August 2015, John Benjamins

    Mr Sebastian Dom, Koen Bostoen

  18. African-European Contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries): New Archaeological Insights from Ngongo Mbata (Lower Congo, DRC)

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Koen Bostoen

  19. Middle to Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Change and the Early Bantu Expansion in the Rain Forests of Western Central Africa

    Article • Current Anthropology, June 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Koen Bostoen

  20. Event-centrality and the pragmatics–semantics interface in Kikongo: From predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa

    Article • Folia Linguistica, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Koen Bostoen

  21. Prehistoric language contact in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier area: Khoisan influence on southwestern Bantu languages

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Koen Bostoen

  22. The antipassive in Bantu

    Article • Linguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Mr Sebastian Dom, Koen Bostoen

  23. Migration and Interaction in a Contact Zone: mtDNA Variation among Bantu-Speakers in Southern Africa

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2014, PLOS

    Koen Bostoen

  24. Diachronic semantics of the modal verb -sóból- in Luganda

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, April 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen

  25. Migration and interaction in a contact zone: mtDNA variation among Bantu-speakers in southern Africa

    Article • February 2014, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Koen Bostoen

  26. Bantu-Ubangi language contact and the origin of labial-velar stops in Lingombe (Bantu, C41, DRC)

    Article • Diachronica, December 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr DONZO JP BUNZA, Koen Bostoen

  27. Umlaut in the Bantu B80 Languages of the Kwilu (DRC)

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, October 2013, Wiley

    Koen Bostoen

  28. Archaeological charcoals as archives for firewood preferences and vegetation composition during the late Holocene in the southern Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Koen Bostoen, Hans Beeckman

  29. Climate-induced vegetation dynamics and the Bantu Expansion: Evidence from Bantu names for pioneer trees (Elaeis guineensis, Canarium schweinfurthii, and Musanga cecropioides)

    Article • Comptes Rendus Géoscience, July 2013, Elsevier

    Koen Bostoen

  30. Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012

    Article • November 2012, Stellenbosch University

    Professor Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen

  31. Genetic perspectives on the origin of clicks in Bantu languages from southwestern Zambia

    Article • European Journal of Human Genetics, August 2012, Nature

    Koen Bostoen

  32. Subject marking, object-verb order and focus in Mbuun (Bantu, B87)

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, June 2012, Informa UK Limited

    Koen Bostoen

  33. The applicative in ciLubà grammar and discourse: A semantic goal analysis

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, March 2012, Informa UK Limited

    Koen Bostoen

  34. First farmers in the Central African rainforest: A view from southern Cameroon

    Article • Quaternary International, February 2012, Elsevier

    Koen Bostoen

  35. Vowel split in Hungan (Bantu H42, Kwilu, DRC): A contact-induced language-internal change

    Article • Journal of Historical Linguistics, December 2011, John Benjamins

    Prof. Joseph Koni Muluwa, Koen Bostoen

  36. Passiveness and inversion in Mbuun (Bantu B87, DRC)

    Article • Studies in Language, July 2011, John Benjamins

    Koen Bostoen

  37. Molecular Perspectives on the Bantu Expansion: A Synthesis

    Article • Language Dynamics and Change, January 2011, Brill

    Koen Bostoen

  38. The causative/applicative syncretism in Mbuun (Bantu B87, DRC): Semantic split or phonemic merger?

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Koen Bostoen

  39. Un recueil de proverbes nsong (R.D. Congo, Bantu B85d)

    Article • Annales Aequatoria, November 2010, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Koen Bostoen

  40. Un recueil de proverbes mbuun d’Imbongo (RD Congo, bantu B87)

    Article • Annales Aequatoria, November 2010, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Koen Bostoen

  41. On how “middle” plus “associative/reciprocal” became “passive” in the Bantu A70 languages

    Article • Linguistics, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Koen Bostoen

  42. Early Plant Cultivation in the Central African Rain Forest: First Millennium BC Pearl Millet from South Cameroon

    Article • Journal of African Archaeology, October 2009, Brill

    Koen Bostoen

  43. Bantu Spirantization

    Article • Diachronica, December 2008, John Benjamins

    Koen Bostoen

  44. Bantu Spirantization<BR> Morphologization, lexicalization and historical classification

    Article • Diachronica, November 2008, John Benjamins

    Koen Bostoen

  45. POTS, WORDS AND THE BANTU PROBLEM: ON LEXICAL RECONSTRUCTION AND EARLY AFRICAN HISTORY

    Article • The Journal of African History, July 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Koen Bostoen

  46. Research Mate in African Linguistics: Focus on Cameroon, edited by Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Sammy B. Chumbow

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Koen Bostoen