Author Archives: LHEAf Project

Date | 14 June 2023 Location | online Maarten Mous and Christian Rapold – Cushitic–Nilotic Contacts: Tanzanian Cushitic and Kalenjin

Date | 10 June 2023 Location | Leiden On the 10th of June, 2023, our project received Amani Lusekelo (University of Dar es Salaam) and Gerrit Dimmendaal (University of Cologne) to present our results so far. Further, we discussed our findings in comparative botanical terminology as well as a planned collaboration with the University ofContinue reading “LHEAf Day”

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 weContinue reading “DCLS Colloquium”

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 andContinue reading “Fieldwork in Tanzania”

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).