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”
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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 weContinue reading “DCLS Colloquium”
Fieldwork 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 andContinue reading “Fieldwork in Tanzania”
LUCL 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.
BantUGent-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).
52nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Date | 29-31 August 2022 Location | Leiden East Africa Workshop
International 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).
LUCL Summer School
Date | 13-18 June 2022 Location | Leiden University Courses taught by Ahmed Sosal, Christian Rapold, Andrew Harvey and Maarten Mous.
Fieldwork 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,Continue reading “Fieldwork in Tanzania”
LIME 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.
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