Events

• Fri

  03

  Oct

  2025

  Lorenzo Maselli (Ghent University) - "Documenting the implosives and labial-velars of the Ubangi River Basin"

  1:30 pmBlandijn 2 1.91

  Documenting the implosives and labial-velars of the Ubangi River Basin

  This contribution reports on a recent field mission carried out in the Ubangi River Basin (Central African Republic). Work focused on 31 varieties belonging to the Bantu, Ubangi, and Central Sudanic subfamilies of Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan. The primary objective was to document implosive and labial-velar consonants. To this end, acoustic, electroglottographic, and aerodynamic (pneumotachographic) data were collected. In the context of this presentation: I will present a detailed report on activities within the framework of this mission; I will illustrate the quality and typology of the data and exemplify the usefulness of integrated phonetic research with instances from Central Sudanic Bagiro; I will present a few general remarks on the merit of instrumental data collection for phonetic typology and phonological theory. The hope is that this will serve as a handy reference for fellow researchers interested in instrumental work in the field.

   

  Joint talk with BantUGent.

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Event Information:

• Fri

  18

  Sep

  2015

  The Language(s) of the Papyrus Archives

  10:00 amKoninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- & Letterkunde (KANTL)

  The conference “The Language(s) of the Papyrus Archives” will be held at the conference center KANTL (Koningstraat, Ghent) on 18 September 2015.
  The conference focuses on the linguistic approach of (documentary) papyri, and on papyri preserved in papyrological archives in particular.
  It has a multilingual scope with contributions about Greek, Demotic and Latin.
  It not only presents scientific results of scholars working within the field of the linguistic study of papyri, but it also aims to discuss the potential of this relatively new subdiscipline.

  Programme
  10.00-10.30       Coffee
  10.30-10.45       Welcoming speech (Delphine Nachtergaele, Ghent University)
  10.45-11.30       Bilingual documents in Greco-Roman Egypt (Willy Clarysse, KU Leuven)
  11.30-12.15       Some Aspects of the Language of Individuals and Social Groups in Zenon Papyri (Trevor Evans, Macquarie University, Sydney)
  12.15-13.30       Lunch
  13.30-14.15       Further observations on senders, scribes and language (Hilla Halla-aho, University of Helsinki)
  14.15-15.00       DIA in the Archive of Basil the Pagarch (VIII AD) (Klaas Bentein, Ghent University)
  15.00-15.45       Digital Humanities and the future of linguistic papyrology (Mark Depauw, KU Leuven)

  Registration
  Attendance of the conference is open to the public. A fee of €25 is asked for coffee & tea and lunch; therefore advance registration is necessary. If you plan to attend, please inform the organizers (Delphine.Nachtergaele@UGent.be)

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