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Linguistics Service (Cultural Anthropology)
Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren (Belgium)
Tel: 32 2 769 56 73 - Fax: 32 2 769 56 42 
jacky.maniacky@africamuseum.be 

PERSONAL INFO

Date and place of birth: May 1, 1970, Brazzaville (Congo)


CURRENT POSITION

Researcher, Head of Linguistics Service, RMCA, Tervuren

OTHER POSITIONS

2003 - present	Linguistics Service, RMCA, Tervuren (Belgium): post-doc researcher
2002	Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France): scientific collaboration
2001 -2002	Laboratoire Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale, CNRS. Villejuif (France): scientific collaboration.
1997 - 2002	Centre de recherches sur l'Afrique orientale et centrale, INALCO, Paris (France): scientific collaboration

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

2009	Visiting professor at Universidade Federal de Rondônia (Guajara-Mirim, Brazil): Post-graduate cursus "Tonologia comparativa Bantu"
2008	Visiting professor at Department of African languages & cultures, Universiteit Gent (Belgium):  Undergraduate cursus "Lingala I"

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris, France):

2002	Doctorat (PhD) d'études africaines, mention linguistique
1997	DEA de langues, littératures et civilisations, option linguistique
1996	Diplôme de recherche et d'études appliquées en bantu
1996	Licence de langues, littératures et civilisations, mention études africaines: bantu
1993	Diplôme unilingue de langues et civilisations orientales, option bantu, swahili

Académie de Créteil (France):

1994	BTS commerce international

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Bantu languages, focusing on zones H and K. Bantu descriptive and comparative studies. Tonology. Ethnobotany / Phytonymy. Ethnozoology / zoonymy. Grammaticalization

• (Co-)oordination of Research Projects:
  - [with universities of Rondônia (Brazil) and Luanda (Angola)] As Origens Etimológicas dos Brasileirismos de Origem Bantu: 2009 -
  - [with universities of Rondônia (Brazil) and Luanda (Angola)] Descrição das Línguas Bantu de Angola: 2009 –
  - [with universities of Brazzaville (Congo) and Kinshasa (RDCongo)] Contribution à la valorisation du savoir local et à l'intégration des langues nationales dans le système éducatif: le cas de l'aire kitubaphone (kikongo véhiculaire) (Promotor): 2009 – 2013
  - [with Universities of Louvain, Leuven, Gent, Antwerpen (Belgium) and Hannover (Germany)] Grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification (RMCA Promotor): 2007 – 2011
  - Crossing borders: An Integrated Archaeological and Linguistic approach to Population Dynamics in southern Central Africa: 2005 – 2009
  - [with IRST Butare (Rwanda)] Compilation  assistée du dictionnaire kinyarwanda (Promotor): 2007 –
  - Bantu Lexical Reconstructions: 2003 –
  - Words and Plants: étude linguistique comparative et historique sur le vocabulaire des plantes alimentaires dans les langues bantu (Promotor): 2003 – 2006
  - [with Max Planck Institute, Leipzig (Germany)] Languages, Genes and the Bantu Problem: Western Zambia as a Case Study (Promotor): 2007 – 2010

• Other ongoing research topics:
  - Kibeembe (Bantu H11, Congo): mainly on nominal and verbal tonology
  - Ngangela (Bantu (K12, Angola): lexicography
  - Bantu comparative issues mainly on ‘tone case’ languages and final negative elements

PUBLICATIONS

Co-editor of the journal Africana Linguistica

1. Books

(2005) (co-edition with Koen Bostoen) Studies in African Comparative Linguistics with Special Focus on Bantu and Mande.Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa, Human Sciences Collection n°1. 495p.

(2003) Tonologie du ngangela, variété de Menongue (Angola). München: Lincom. 240p.

2. Articles 

(forthcoming) Review of Halme, Riikka: A Tonal Grammar of Kwanyama. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln 2004. Afrika und Übersee.

(submitted) Thèmes régionaux bantu et africanismes brésiliens. Proceedings of the Special Word Congress of African Linguistics 6.  São Paulo: Gela.

(2007) Review of Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig and Karl Peter Shiyaka-Mberema 2005: A Dictionary of the Rumanyo Language. (SouthernAfrican languages and cultures, 2). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 28 (2): 239-241

(2006) Pan paniscus, sometimes a linguistic issue. Pan Africa News 13 (1)
Online publication: http://mahale.web.infoseek.co.jp/PAN/13_1/PAN13(1).pdf

(2005) Quelques thèmes pour "igname" en bantu, in Bostoen K. & J. Maniacky (eds), Studies in African Comparative Linguistics, with Special Focus on Bantu and Mande, Tervuren: MRAC, pp. 165-187

(2000) Le vocabulaire de la faune en kibeembe (H.11), Afrikanistische ArbeitsPapier 62, Köln, pp. 151-161

(1997) Les particularités de la langue française parlée à Brazzaville.
Online publication: http://www.bantu-languages.com/fr/francong.html

DISSERTATIONS

(2002) Tonologie du ngangela, variété de Menongue (Angola). Thèse de doctorat. Paris: INALCO. 408p.

(1997) Contribution à l'étude des langues bantoues de la zone K: analyse comparative et sous-groupements. Mémoire de DEA Paris: INALCO. 101p.

(1996) Contribution à l'étude des noms de primates dans les langues bantoues. Mémoire de DREA Paris: INALCO. 123p.

TALKS

(2009) Notes on Nyinungu (Unclassified Bantu, Cokwe-Lunda group). 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, August 17-21, Cologne (Germany)

(2009) Contribution de la linguistique à l'Histoire ancienne de l'Afrique. May 5, Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Congo (Invited)

(2009) (with Maud Devos) Multilingualism in Africa: sometimes more than 250 languages to manage. Translation forum, February 12 & 19, European Commission, Brussels (Belgium) & Luxemburg (Luxemburg) (Invited)

(2008) (with Michael Kasombo) Les formes verbales absolutives en kanincin (Bantu L53), 38th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)

(2008) A importância do estudo das línguas africanas, II Seminário Internacional "Acolhendo as Línguas Africanas", 18/08-20/08, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Salvador da Bahia (Brasil) (Invited)

(2008) Singularités lexicales dans les langues bantus du sud-ouest (Angola, Namibie, Zambie), Special Word Congress of African Linguistics 6, 11/08-15/08, Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil)

(2008) Banana: what further information can Bantu comparatives linguistics offer? World Archaeological Congress VI, 29/06-04/07, Dublin (Ireland)

(2008) Imbrication et haplologie en langue kibeembe, présentation au Département des langues africaines de l'UNILU, 11 février, Lubumbashi (RDCOngo) (Invited)

(2008) Le suffixe *-ide en kibeembe (Bantu, H11), présentation au Séminaire de Langues et Cultures Africaines, 1 février, Tervuren

(2007) 'Kibeembe Words at the Border of the Invisible'. Conference on the Perception of the Invisible: Religion, Historical Semantics and the Role of Perceptive Verbs, University of Köln, Germany, 14-17 November 2007 (Invited)

(2007) '-ko & co.: final negative elements. Evidences of grammaticalization?'  International Conference on Bantu Languages: Analysis, Description and Theory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, October 4-6, 2007

(2006) Les langues bantu dites à 'cas tonals', présentation au Séminaire de Langues et Cultures Africaines, 1er décembre, Tervuren

(2006) On the so -called Bantu 'Tone case ' languages. Second TIE Conference on the Typology of Tone and Intonation, ZAS, Berlin, Germany (poster)

(2006) Comparative Bantu: que dire des mots désignant les primates? 36th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)

(2006) (with Koen Bostoen & Mark Stoneking) An integrated linguistic and genetic approach to population dynamics in western Zambia, 36th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)

(2006) (with Koen Bostoen & Mark Stoneking) Languages, Genes and the Bantu Problem: Western Zambia as a Case Study for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Population History of Southern Central Africa, Languages and Genes: An Interdisciplinary Conference , University of California, Santa Barbara (poster)

(2006) (with Alexandre Livingstone Smith, Els Cornelissen, Koen Bostoen, Baudouin Janssens) Crossing Borders: an integrated archaeological and linguistic approach to population dynamics in southern central Africa, SAfA 2006 Conference June 22-26, Calgary (Canada).

(2005) Some notes on Lwimbi ( Bantu K12a , Angola )’, 35th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)

(2003) Le mbwela, langue bantu K.17 du sud de l'Angola’, 33rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)

(2003) Le vocabulaire des tubercules dans les langues bantu’, présentation au Séminaire de Langues et Cultures Africaines, 5 décembre, Tervuren

(2002) Language situation in south-eastern Angola’, 32nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University of Leiden (The Netherlands)

(2001) Le futur en ngangela (K12b)’, Exposé LACITO, 24 septembre, Villejuif (France)

(2001) Tonologie nominale du ngangela, Exposé Dynamique du Langage,  8 janvier, Lyon (France) (Invited)

(2001) ‘Some Aspects of Ngangela Tonology (Bantu K.12b)’, 31st Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics , University of Leiden (The Netherlands)

(1998) ‘Bilan d'une étude comparative des noms de primates dans les langues bantu’, Exposé Dynamique du Langage, 27 janvier, Lyon (France) (Invited)


(CO-)SUPERVISION OF DOCTORATS/PhD

PhD co-supervised

2009 Michael Kasombo (UNILU, Lubumbashi) ‘Le kanincin : description grammaticale et interprétation prospective des unité prosodiques’

Ongoing PhD co-supervisions

• Onomastique teke-lali dans l’espace beembe du 15ème au 19ème siècle. Lucien Niangui Goma (UMNG, Brazzaville): since 2007
• Etude sémantico-pragmatique des noms des écoles en RDC. Cas de la ville de Lubumbashi. Kasongo Tshinzela (UNILU, Lubumbashi): since 2009
• Fonologia, Morfologia e Léxico da Língua bantu Lwimbi (K12a). Oziel Marques da Silva (UAN, Luanda), since 2009
• Fonologia, Morfologia e Léxico da Língua bantu Nyengo (K16). Maria de Fátima Lima de Sousa (UAN, Luanda), since 2009
• Fonologia, Morfologia e Lèxico do Mbwela(K17). Janine Félix da Silva (UAN, Luanda), since 2009

• Co-organizer of the Séminaire de Langues et Cultures Africaines (4-5 times a year). RMCA, Tervuren (Belgium)
• Co-organizer of the 3rd International Conference on Bantu Languages, March 25-27, 2009. RMCA: Tervuren (Belgium)
  

LANGUAGE EXPERTISE

kibeembe (Congo-Brazzaville), kiswahili (East Africa), vehicular kikongo (munukutuba), lingala (Congo-Brazzaville et RDCongo), ngangela (Angola), creole (French West Indies).

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