Koen BOSTOEN Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres tel 02 769 56 74, fax 02 769 56 42, Koen.Bostoen@ulb.ac.be Campus du Solbosch ULB CP175, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles

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Présentation des enseignements

Histoire des langues et des cultures d'Afrique (5 ECTS)
Littératures orales africaines (5ECTS)

Présentation des thèmes de recherche

linguistique historique et comparative
langues bantoues
reconstruction lexicale
semantique diachronique
étude interdisicplinaire de l'histoire ancienne de l'Afrique

Centre(s) de recherche

Centre de recherche en linguistique

Dernière(s) publication(s)

Bostoen, Koen, & Mundeke, L. (2011). The Causative/Applicative Syncretism in Mbuun (Bantu B87, DRC): Semantic Split or Phonemic Merger? Journal of African languages and linguistics.

de Filippo, C., Barbieri, Carlo, Whitten, M., Gunnarsdottir, E., Bostoen, Koen, Nyambe, T., Beyer, K., Schreiber, H., de Knijff, P., Luiselli, D., Stoneking, M., & Pakendorf, B. (2011). Y-chromosomal variation in Sub-Saharan Africa: insights into the history of Niger-Congo groups. Molecular biology and evolution.

Bostoen, Koen, & Mundeke, L. (2011). Passiveness and inversion in Mbuun (Bantu B87, DRC). Studies in language.

Neumann, K., Bostoen, Koen, Hohn, T, Kahlheber, S., Ngomanda, A., & Tchiengué, B. (2011). First farmers in the Central African rainforest: A view from southern Cameroon. Quaternary international.

Pakendorf, B., Bostoen, Koen, & de Filippo, C. (2011). Molecular perspectives on the Bantu expansion: a critical appraisal. Language dynamics and change.

Muluwa, Koni, & Bostoen, Koen (2010). Les plantes et l’invisible chez les Mbuun, Mpiin et Nsong (Bandundu, RD Congo): une approche ethnolinguistique’. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, 21, 92-122.

Ricquier, Birgit, & Bostoen, Koen (2010). Retrieving Food History through Linguistics: Culinary Traditions in Early Bantuphone communities. In Richard Hosking (Ed.), Food and Language (pp. 258-269). Totnes: Prospect Books.

Bostoen, Koen, Marck, J., Hage, Pierre, & Kamba Muzenga, J.-G (2010). Kin terms in the Bantu protolanguages: initial findings. In B. Milicic & D. Jones (Eds.), Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Marck, J., & Bostoen, Koen (2010). Proto Oceanic (Austronesian) and Proto East Bantu (Niger-Congo) kin terms ca. 1000 BC. Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Bostoen, Koen (2010). Review of Maho, Jouni Filip. 2008. The Bantu Bibliography. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Reihe: African Linguistic Bibliographies Band 8. ISBN 978-3-89645-181-1. 844 p. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 105, 260-262.

Kahlheber, S., Bostoen, Koen, & Neumann, K. (2009). Early Plant Cultivation in the Central African Rain Forest: First Millennium BC Pearl Millet from South Cameroon. Journal of African archaeology, 7(2), 253-272.

Bostoen, Koen (2009). Semantic Vagueness and Cross-linguistic Lexical Fragmentation in Bantu: Impeding Factors for Linguistic Palaeontology. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, 20, 51-64.

De Grauwe, J., & Bostoen, Koen (2009). Lexique yoombe-français avec index français yoombe. Tervuren: RMCA.

Bostoen, Koen (2009). Shanjo and Fwe as Part of Bantu Botatwe: A Diachronic Phonological Approach. In Ojo Akinloye & Moshi Lioba (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (pp. 110-130). Sommerville, MA: Proceedings Project.

Van der Veken, Anneleen (2008). Vocabulaire de la fonte de l'aluminium en zarma et en hausa du Niger. Innovations lexicales et transmissions culturelles./Vocabulary of Aluminium Casting in Zarma and Hausa of Niger. Lexical Innovation en Cultural Transmission. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.

Bostoen, Koen (2008). Bantu Spirantization: Morphologization, Lexicalization and Historical Classification. Diachronica, 25(3), 299-356.

Bostoen, Koen, Kahlheber, S., & Neumann, K. (2008). Resolving phonological variability in Bantu lexical reconstructions: the case of 'to bake in ashes'. Africana Linguistica, 14, 109-149.

Muluwa, Koni, & Bostoen, Koen (2008). Un recueil de proverbes mbuun d'Imbongo (RD Congo, bantu B87). Annales aequatoria, 29, 381-423.

Muluwa, Koni, & Bostoen, Koen (2008). Noms et usages de plantes utiles chez les Nsong (RD Congo, bantu B85F). Göteborg: University of Gothenburg, Department of Oriental and African Languages.

Bostoen, Koen (2007). Pots, words and the Bantu problem: On lexical reconstruction and early African history. Journal of African history, 48(2), 173-199.

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