Reconstruction and contact

Comparative and diachronic study of the vowels of the B20 lects - quantitative and systemic approaches   Lolke VAN DER VEEN B20, Kota-Kele, Gabon, final vowels, vowel cooccurrences, consonants, quantitative approach, systemic approach, typology of phonological processes, synchrony, diachrony, spatial distribution, diffusion, contact, multilingualism, classification, reconstruction Read more...

Database of etyma of the Bantu languages of Gabon and neighbouring countries   Lolke VAN DER VEEN reconstruction, regional reconstruction, etyma, spatial distribution, lexical diversity, lexical variability, phonological changes, morphological changes, database, Northwest Bantu, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville Read more...

The phonology of Ntumu Fang (Bantu, A75) revisited   Lolke VAN DER VEEN Fang, A75, Ntumu, Gabon, phonology, synchrony, diachrony, phonological changes, description, instrumental phonetics, drum language, psycholinguistics, tone, syllables, word-final consonants Read more...

The role of language contact in language diversification   Brigitte PAKENDORF Even, Siberia, contact, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics Read more...

Evolution and environment

Variation, Change and Complexity in Linguistic and Health-related Behaviours (V2C)   Dan DEDIU individual variation, linguistic diversity, statistics, phylogenetics, networks, fricatives Read more...

Early social experience and the development of communicative abilities in bonobos   Elisa DEMURU Bonobo (Pan paniscus), Developmental and comparative approach, Acquisition Socio-emotional competence, Communicative competence Read more...

Linguistic complexity and spoken communication at the intersection of cognitive and ecological constraints   François PELLEGRINO Linguistic complexity, Zipf law Adaptation and regulation processes, Quantitative and cross-language approaches Read more...

Modeling the competition between languages   Vincent ARNAUD , François PELLEGRINO Mathematical Models Language diversity and competition Language ecology Read more...

Molecular anthropological perspectives on prehistory in southern Africa   Brigitte PAKENDORF mtDNA, autosomal DNA, Y-chromosome, Khoisan, Bantu Read more...

The emergence of symbolic communication systems   Christophe COUPÉ sound symbolism, origins of language, symbolic systems, experimental semiotics, psychollinguistics Read more...

The influence of the environment on linguistic diversity   Christophe COUPÉ ecology, vegetation, linguistic diversity, phonemic diversity, spatial analysis, geographic information systems, databases, statistics Read more...

Vocal communication in bonobos (Pan paniscus)   Vincent ARNAUD , François PELLEGRINO Bonobo, vocalization, nonhuman primate, complexity, sound inventory Read more...

Old projects

Internal Classification of the Cariban languages using phylogenetic methods   Natalia CHOUSOU-POLYDOURI Cariban family, Internal classification, Semantic shift, Bayesian phylogenetic methods Read more...

Internal Classification of West Coastal Bantu using phylogenetic methods   Natalia CHOUSOU-POLYDOURI West Coastal Bantu, Bayesian phylogenetic methods Read more...

African Pygmies and their languages   Jean-Marie HOMBERT Read more...

Bantu specialized lexicon   Patrick MOUGUIAMA-DAOUDA , Lolke VAN DER VEEN , Jean-Marie HOMBERT Read more...

Biodiversity and Endangered Languages   Jean-Marie HOMBERT biodiversity, endangered languages, endangered ancestral knowledge Read more...

Comparison and reconstruction of the Bantu languages of Gabon and neighbouring countries   Lolke VAN DER VEEN Read more...

Contribution of linguistic sciences to the history of sub-Saharan Africa (CLHASS project)   Jean-Marie HOMBERT classification, isolates, reconstruction, modelization, specialized vocabulary Read more...

Diachronic approaches to Berber languages : advances in Berber reconstruction   Cécile LUX , Gérard PHILIPPSON Berber, Niger, Tuareg, Tetserret, Tamacheq, diachrony, comparison, language contact, verbal apophony Read more...

Eol-DiaDM: Language Evolution: Diachronic Data and Methods   Mahé BEN HAMED database development, phonological change, diachrony, evolution, distribution patterns, phylogenies, models. Read more...

Internal and external dynamics of Makina lineages in Gabon   Raymond MAYER Makina, Shiwa, lineages, kinship system, mating system, ethnic groups, ethnicity, ethnogenesis, identity, Gabon Read more...

Language, culture and genes in Bantu   Lolke VAN DER VEEN Gabon, linguistics, (cultural) anthropology, population genetics, archaeology, history, correlations, Bantu expansion, peopling Read more...

Linguistic Atlas of Gabon (ALGAB)   Lolke VAN DER VEEN Bantu, languages of Gabon, lexicon, classification, peopling of Gabon, migration paths Read more...

Phylogenetic Analysis of Tupí-Guaraní Morphology   Natalia CHOUSOU-POLYDOURI Tupi-Guarani family, Morphology, Evolution and diversification, Computational Approaches, Evolutionary biology Read more...

Space, territory and mobility: the Baka of Gabon   Lolke VAN DER VEEN Gabon, hunter-gatherers, mobility, space, sedentarization, transformation, environment, Baka, Ubangian Read more...

The Diachrony of Subject Marking in the Sáliban Languages   Jorge Emilio ROSÉS LABRADA Sáliban, subject marking, diachrony, grammaticalization Read more...

The role of contact in the diffusion of linguistic traits among Bantu lects   Lolke VAN DER VEEN Read more...

Tone systems in Bantu   Sophie MANUS , Gérard PHILIPPSON Read more...