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Projects

• Verbal derivation in the A70 Bantu languages
  Researcher: Yolande Nzang-Bie (Université Omar Bongo / GRELACO / MRAC)
• Compilation of a bilingual dictionary Fang-French and French-Fang
  Researcher: Yolande Nzang-Bie  (Université Omar Bongo / GRELACO / MRAC)
• Crossing borders : an integrated archaeological and linguistic approach to population dynamics in southern Central Africa
  Researchers : Alexandre Livingstone-Smith (Archaeology) / Anneleen Van der Veken (Linguistics). 
  As complementary researcher to this project, Birgit Ricquier  undertook a preliminary survey in Lubumbashi (August-September 2007).
• Languages, Genes and the Bantu Problem : Western Zambia as a Case Study for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Population History of Southern Central Africa
  Researcher : Koen Bostoen
• Grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification
  Researcher: Maud Devos
  More info : http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/index.html

PhD projects

• Description of the syntax of Mbuun (Bantu B87)
  PhD-student: Léon Mundeke
• Vocabulary of Forest Products in Bantu: A Comparative Study in Some Languages of Bandundu (DRC)
  PhD-student: Joseph Koni Muluwa (RMCA/ULB/ERAIFT)
• A Comparative Linguistic Approach to the History of Culinary Practice in Bantu-Speaking Africa
  PhD-student: Birgit Ricquier (ULB/RMCA)
•  Teke-Lali onomastics on the Beembe country from 15th to 19th century
  PhD-student : Lucien Niangui Goma