Position: Researcher, Head of Service

Research unit: Service for Linguistics, Department of Cultural Anthropology

GRAMIS research: Jacky Maniacky works on possible implications of grammaticalization in 'tone cases' and final negative elements in Bantu languages (diachronic perspective). He is also concerned with the expression of evidentiality in Kibeembe (Bantu H11).

Homepage:

e-mail: jacky.maniacky at africamuseum.be

Koen Bostoen

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Service for Linguistics, Department of Cultural Anthropology

GRAMIS research: Koen Bostoen is a historical linguist doing research on diachronic semantics, lexical reconstruction and phonological/morphologi-cal evolution in Bantu. He currently focuses on the descriptive and comparative study of some hitherto non-described Bantu languages of the Western Province of Zambia (Kwamashi, Fwe and Shanjo), with special interest for their tense, mood and aspect systems.

Homepage: http://www.africamuseum.be/research/anthropology/linguistic/kB

e-mail: koen.bostoen at africamuseum.be

Maud Devos

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Service for Linguistics, Department of Cultural Anthropology

GRAMIS research: Maud Devos works on the grammaticalization of modality in Bantu languages,
with a special interest for the expression of prohibition and the meaning of the Subjunctive.

Homepage:

e-mail: maud.devos at africamuseum.be

Jenneke van der Wal

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Service for Linguistics, Department of Cultural Anthropology

GRAMIS research: Jenneke van der Wal works on the grammaticalisation of information structure in Bantu languages, specifically the conjoint and disjoint verb forms found in East and Southern Africa.

Homepage: www.jennekevanderwal.nl

e-mail: jenneke.van.der.wal at africamuseum.be