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KONGOKING : Publications

| Journal articles | Master theses | Conference papers | Conference posters |

Journal articles:

  • 1. Key articles

  • Submitted and accepted:

    > De Schryver (G.-M.). On the most innovative outer access structure of any Bantu dictionary: the lexique kikongo – français by Charles Polis (1938). Lexikos 25: (80 pages). (Accepted).

    > Kaumba (M.W.). Un dernier atelier de poterie Kongo-Mbata à Nsangi-Binsu (Bas-Congo, R.D. Congo). Anthropos. (Accepted).

    2016:
    > Rousaki (A.), Coccato (A.), Verhaeghe (C.), Clist (B.), Bostoen (K.), Vandenabeele (P.) & Moens (L.), 2016, Combined spectroscopic analysis of beads from the tombs of Kindoki, Lower Congo Province (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Applied spectroscopy, 70 (1), pp.76-93.

    2015:

    > Bostoen (K.), Clist (B.), Doumenge (C.), Grollemund (R.), Hombert (J.-M.), Koni Muluwa (J.) & Maley (J.), 2015, Middle to Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Change and the Early Bantu Expansion in the Rain Forests of West Central-Africa, Current Anthropology, 56 (3): 354-384.

    > Bostoen (K.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2015, Linguistic innovation, political centralization and economic integration in the Kongo Kingdom: Reconstructing the spread of prefix reduction, Diachronica, 32 (2): 139-185.

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), de Maret (P.), de Schryver (G.-M.), Kaumba (M.), Matonda (I.), Nikis (N.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Archaeological research on the Kongo kingdom in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa. October Project Gallery of Antiquity journal. Online http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/clist347. Click here

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), de Schryver (G.-M.), Herremans (D.), Karklins (K.), Matonda (I.), Polet (C.), Sengeløv (A.), Steyaert (F.), Verhaeghe (C.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, The elusive archaeology of Kongo urbanism: The case of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi (Lower Congo, DRC), African Archaeological Review, 32 (3): 369–412.

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), de Schryver (G.-M.), Herremans (D.), Karklins (K.), Matonda (I.), Steyaert (F.), & Bostoen (K.), 2015, African-European Contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries): New Archaeological Insights from Ngongo Mbata (Lower Congo, DRC), International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 19 (3): 464–501.

    > De Kind (J.), Dom (S.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo: From predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa. Folia Linguistica Historica, 36: 113-163.

    > De Schryver (G.-M.), Grollemund (R.), Branford (S.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster, Africana Linguistica, 21: 87-162.

    > Dom (S.) & Bostoen (K.), 2015, Examining variation in the expression of tense/aspect to classify the Kikongo Language Cluster, Africana Linguistica, 21: 163-211.

    2014:

    > Bostoen (K.), Cranshof (E.), Clist (B.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2014, KongoKing, een vergeten koninkrijk in Congo, Exsitu: Tijdschrift voor Vlaamse Archeologie, 6: 6-11.

    > Clist (B.), Nikis (N.), Nkanza Lutayi (A.), Overmeire (J.), Praet (M.), Scheerlinck (K.) & Bostoen (K.), 2014, Le projet KongoKing: Les prospections et fouilles menées en 2014 à Misenga, Sumbi et Ngongo Mbata (Province du Bas-Congo, RDC), Nyame Akuma, 82: 48-56.

    > De Kind (J.), 2014, Pre-verbal focus in Kisikongo (H16a, Bantu), ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 57: 95-122.

    > Kaumba (M.), 2014, Le projet Kongoking : Enquêtes sur la poterie kongo contemporaine menées en 2014 dans la province du Bas-Congo (République Démocratique du Congo), Nyame Akuma, 82: 66-72.

    > Matonda (I.), Cranshof (E.), Mambu (C.), Kidebua (R.) & Bostoen (K.), 2014, Le projet KongoKing : Prospections archéologiques et enquêtes ethnoarchéologiques dans la vallée de l'Inkisi et régions avoisinantes (Province du Bas-Congo, RDC), Nyame Akuma, 82: 57-65.

    > Nikis (N.) & Champion (L.), 2014, Fouilles, prospections, et prélèvements archéobotaniques dans les zones cuprifères de Mindouli et Boko-Songho en République du Congo, Nyame Akuma, 82: 73-83.

    > Verhaeghe (C.), Clist (B.), Fontaine (C.), Karklins (K.), Bostoen (K.), & De Clercq (W.), 2014, Shell and glass beads from the tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo, Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers, 26: 23-34.

    2013:

    > Bostoen (K.), Ndonda Tshiyayi (O.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2013, On the Origin of the Royal Kongo Title ngangula, Africana Linguistica, 19: 53-83.

    > Clist (B.), 2013, Our iron smelting 14C dates from Central Africa: from a plain appointment to a full blown relationship, in Humphris (J.) and Rehren (T.) eds., The World of Iron, Archetype Publications, London: 22-28.

    > Clist (B.), de Maret (P.), de Schryver (G.-M), Kaumba (M.), Matonda (I.), Cranshof (E.), & Bostoen (K.), 2013, The KongoKing Project: 2012 fieldwork report from the Lower Congo Province (DRC), Nyame Akuma, 79: 60-73.

    > Clist (B.), de Maret (P.), Livingstone-Smith (A.), Cranshof (E.), Kaumba (M.), Matonda (I.), Mambu (C.), Yogolelo (J.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, The KongoKing Project: 2013 Fieldwork Report from the Lower Congo Province (DRC), Nyame Akuma, 80: 22-31.

    > Nikis (N.), de Maret (P.), Lanfranchi (R.), Nsania (J.), Goma (J.-P.), Clist (B.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, Projet KongoKing. Prospections en République du Congo (Brazzaville) : le cuivre et l'origine des anciens royaumes Kongo et Teke, Nyame Akuma, 80: 32-42.

    2012:

    > Clist (B), 2012, Pour une archéologie du royaume Kongo : la Tradition de Mbafu, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 47 (2): 175-209.

    > De Kind (J.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & Bostoen (K.), 2012, Pushing back the origin of Bantu lexicography: the Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012, Lexikos, 22: 159-194.

  • 2. More publications by project members

  • > See https://biblio.ugent.be/project/kongoking

Master theses:

  • 2016

  • > SAELENS (D.), 2016, Terracotta tabakspijpen uit Ngongo Mbata en Kindoki (Democratische Republiek Congo): X-stralen fluorescentie spectrometrisch onderzoek (= Clay tobacco pipes from Ngongo Mbata and Kindoki (Democratic Republic of Congo): XRF research), MA Thesis, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Archaeology Department, 146 pages.

  • 2014:

  • > Drieghe (S.), 2014, Het oudste Kakongo woordenboek (1772): Digitalisatie, lexicografische analyse en historischtaalkundige studie (= The oldest Kakongo dictionary (1772): Digitalization, lexicographic analysis and historical-linguistic study), M.A. Thesis, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, African Languages and Cultures, 312 pages.

    > Sengeløv (A.), 2014, Mbele a Lulendo: een studie naar de herkomst en context van de zwaarden gevonden op het gravfeld te Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Bas-Congo (= a study of the provenance and context of the swords found at Kindoki cemetery, Mbanza Nsundi, Bas-Congo), MA Thesis, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Archaeology Department, 132 pages.

    > Vergaert (E.), 2014, Teledetectie van het Kongo koninkrijk. Inventariserend en methodologisch onderzoek naar de bruikbaarheid van satellietbeelden en luchtfoto's in het archeologish onderzoek van het Kongo Koninkrijk (= Remote sensing of the Kongo kingdom. Inventory and methodological research into the usefulness of satellite and aerial imagery for archaeological research on the Kongo kingdom), MA Thesis, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Archaeology Department, 157 pages.

    > Verhaeghe (C.), 2014, Funeraire rituelen in het Kongo Koninkrijk: de betekenis van de schelp- en glaskralen in de begraafplaats van Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Neder-Congo (= Funerary rites in the Kongo Kingdom: the meaning of the shell- and glassbeads in the burial site of Mbanza Nsundi, Bas-Congo), MA Thesis, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Archaeology Department, 121 pages.

  • 2013:

  • > Dom (S.), 2013, Tijd en aspect in Kikongo (Bantoe H16): Een comparatieve benadering van het Kimbata, Kimbeko, Kinkanu, Cizali, Ciwoyo en Kisolongo (= Time and aspect in Kikongo (Bantu H16): A comparative approach to Kimbata, Kimbeko, Kinkanu, Cizali, Ciwoyo and Kisolongo), MA Thesis, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, African Languages and Cultures.

  • 2012:

  • > De Kind (J.), 2012, Taalvariatie in het Kikongo van Angola vanuit historisch perspectief: fonologie en morfologie (= Language variation from a historical perspective in Angolan Kikongo: phonology and morphology), M.A. Thesis, Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, African Languages and Cultures.

Conference papers:

  • 2015:

  • > Bostoen (K.), Clist (B.), de Maret (P.) & de Schryver (G.-M.). Linguistic and archaeological perspectives on population dynamics in the Lower Congo: Matches and mismatches. XVth Nordic TAG conference, Copenhagen University, April 16-18 2015.

    > Brinkman (I.), Knowledge = Power. Politics and formal education in the precolonial Kongo kingdom. Leiden University, 23 April 2015.

    > Matonda (I.), Déconstruire les modèles: la démographie du bassin de l'Inkisi à l'époque du royaume Kongo (16-18e siècle). Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 3 mars 2015.

  • 2014:

  • > Bostoen (K.), 2014, Kikongo: Ongoing research and potentialities for future research on the Gulf of Guinea Creoles. Workshop on the Origins and Development of Creole Societies in the Gulf of Guinea, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, September 4-5, 2014.

    > Bostoen (K.), de Maret (P.), Clist (B.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2014, Probing the Kongo Past: New Archaeological and Linguistic Insights (2014 Gwendolen M. Carter Conference), Kongo Atlantic Dialogues: Kongo culture in Central Africa and in the Americas, 21-22 February 2014, Center for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States.

    > Brinkman (I.), Interpreters in the Kongo Kingdom, 16th-19th Century, Paper presented at the Robert Ross Valedictory Workshop, 17-18 September 2014, Leiden, The Netherlands.

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), de Schryver (G.-M.), Herremans (D.), Karklins (K.), Matonda (I.), Steyaert (F.), & Bostoen (K.), 2014, The Ngongo Mbata archaeological site (Lower-Congo Province, DRC): A 16th-18th century commercial center of the Kongo kingdom, 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and 22nd Biennal meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists 14-18 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    > Clist (B.), Cranshof (E.), Karklins (K.), Polet (C.), Sengeløv (A.), Steyaert (F.), Verhaeghe (C.), & Bostoen (K.), 2014, The Kindoki archaeological site (Lower-Congo Province, DRC): The 18th – early 19th century cemetery, 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and 22nd Biennal meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists 14-18 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    > Cranshof (E.), 2014, A new pottery style in Lower Congo, the ceramic assemblage of trenches 23 and 28 at Kindoki, 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and 22nd Biennal meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists 14-18 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    > De Kind (J.), 2014, On word order change in Kikongo (Bantu H16), with special focus on southern and southwestern varieties, 44th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 25-27 August 2014.

    > De Kind (J.), 2014, Word order in Kikongo (H16): on the origins of a preverbal focus position and the pragmatic neutralization of SOV, Workshop on the Syntax/Phonology/Information Structure of Preverbal Domains in Bantu Languages, November 14-15 2014, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany.

    > de Maret (P.), Bostoen (K.), Clist (B.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2014, Ancient Kongo: New Insights into its Past. Kongo, Power & Majesty Meeting, Williamstown, USA, 28 February 2014.

    > de Maret (P.) Clist (B.), Livingstone-Smith (A.), Cranshof (E.), Kaumba Mazanga (M.), Matonda (I.), Nikis (N.), Ricquier (B.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & Bostoen (K.), 2014, The KongoKing project: an interdisciplinary approach to the early history of the Kongo kingdom. 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and 22nd Biennal meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists 14-18 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    > de Schryver (G.-M.), Grollemund (R.), Branford (S.), & Bostoen (K.), 2014, Establishing the rate of language change in the Lower Congo Region: A phylogenetic approach to the diachronic Kikongo corpus. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Poznan, September 11-14, 2014.

    > Drieghe (S.), 2014, The oldest Kakongo dictionary (1772): digitization and lexicographical analysis, 44th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 25-27 August 2014.

    > Nikis (N.), 2014, Copper ingots, polities, and exchange networks in Central Africa, 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and 22nd Biennal meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists 14-18 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    > Ricquier (B.), 2014, Proto- Bantu *-dung-, A Web of Power and Faith, 44th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 25-27 August 2014.

  • 2013:

  • > Bostoen (K.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & De Kind (J.), 2013, Nasal Prefix Evolution in Kikongo Between the 17th and 20th century, 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France, 12-15 June 2013.

    > Bostoen (K.), Ricquier (B.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2013, Power Talk: From Royal Kongo Words to Royal Kongo Origins, 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France, 12-15 June 2013.

    > Clist (B.), Bostoen (K.), Doumenge (C.), Hombert (J.-M.), Grollemund (R.), Koni Muluwa (J.) & Maley (J.), Impact of Late Holocene palaeoclimatic changes on the Bantu expansion: A multidisciplinary view. 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France, 12-15 June 2013.

    > De Kind (J.), 2013, Negation markers, focus markers and Jespersen cycles in Kikongo (Bantu, H16): a comparative and diachronic corpus-based approach, 5th Workshop on African Language Technology, Ghent University, Belgium, 6 December 2013.

    > De Kind (J.), 2013, The augment and its correlation with tone cases: a diachronic Kikongo case study. 43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 26-28 August 2013.

    > De Kind (J.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, Preverbal Focus Strategies in Kikongo: A preliminary typology, 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France, 12-15 June 2013.

    > De Kind (J.), Devos (M.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & and Bostoen (K.). Negation markers, focus markers and Jespersen cycles in Kikongo (Bantu, H16): a comparative and diachronic corpus-based approach. Workshop on Information Structure in Bantu, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, 10-11 December 2013.

    > De Kind (J.), Dom (S.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, Fronted-infinitive Constructions, Progressive Aspect and Predication Focus in Kikongo, 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split University, Croatia, 18–21 September 2013.

    > de Schryver (G.-M.), 2013, Building a hybrid set of diachronic Kikongo corpora, 5th Workshop on African Language Technology, Ghent University, Belgium, 6 December 2013.

    > de Schryver (G.-M.), Grollemund (R.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, A Diachronic Phylogenetic Approach to the Internal Classification of the Kikongo Group. The 43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 26-28 August 2013.

    > de Schryver (G.-M.), Grollemund (R.), De Kind (J.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, Language Dynamics in the Lower Congo Region of Central-Africa: A Phylogenetic Approach, The 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oslo, Norway, 5-9 August 2013.

    > Dom (S.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, Microvariation in the expression of tense and aspect in the Kikongo dialect continuum. 43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 26-28 August 2013.

    > Drieghe (S.), 2013, How to classify Cilinji & Kizobe, two poorly documented Kikongo varieties? 43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 26-28 August 2013.

    > Ricquier (B.), de Schryver (G.-M.), De Kind (J.) & Bostoen (K.), 2013, A Diachronic Corpus for African Languages: The Exceptional Case of Kikongo, The 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oslo, Norway, 5-9 August 2013.

  • 2012

  • > Bostoen (K.), Grollemund (R.), de Schryver (G.-M.), De Kind (J.), Dom (S.) & Bleyenberg (E.), 2012, Kikongo dialect continuum: internal and external classification. The Niger-Congo International Congress, Paris, September 18-21, 2012: http://www.nigercongo.com/

    > Clist (B.), Bostoen (K.) & de Schryver (G.-M.), 2012, The KongoKing research project – origins of the Kongo kingdom (Republic of Congo / Democratic Republic of Congo / Republic of Angola): first results of the 2012 field season, African Archaeological Research Days (3rd – 4th November 2012), University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

    > De Kind (J.), de Schryver (G.-M.) & Bostoen (K.), 2012, Bantu Forensic Lexicography: a Kikongo case study. 17th International Conference of the African Association for Lexicography, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2-5 July 2012. Pdf abstract here.