Sara Pacchiarotti
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2500106 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara Pacchiarotti |
| NOMBRES | Sara |
| APELLIDO | Pacchiarotti |
| FIRMA | PACCHIAROTTI S |
| AFILIACIONES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1360-5060 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Vanishing Potters in the Ubangi River Basin
The coevolution of languages, peoples and environments in Central Africa’s Kwilu-Kasai region since ∼1000 BCE
In this article, Jan Vansina’s essay on the deep-time population history of the Kwilu-Kasai region, now more than half a century old, is revisited through the kaleidoscopic lens of newly collected linguistic, archaeological, palaeoecological and genetic evidence collected between 2018 and 2023. In contrast to Vansina’s view of the region as a terminus for the settlement of diverse Bantu speech communities, the area was likely an important center …
Noun Incorporation in Bribri
Sound change versus lexical change for subgrouping
This article focuses on languages of the Kwilu-Ngounie subbranch within a branch of the Bantu language family known as West-Coastal Bantu. Within Kwilu-Ngounie, B70 and B80 languages emerge as paraphyletic in the most comprehensive lexicon-based phylogeny of the branch. We assess whether the impossibility to group them into lexicon-based monophyletic subgroups can be bypassed by using the phonological innovation of word-final loss of Proto-Bantu …
Labial-velar stops in Sakata (Bantu C34)
The present contribution bears on the documentation and description of a few unusual sounds, i.e. double labial-velar articulations, in a number of Bantu zone C varieties belonging to the so-called “Sakata cluster” in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These phonemes, often considered typical of a linguistic area known as the “Macro-Sudan Belt”, are considerably more common in southern Central Africa than previously thought. The…
The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest
Archaeological investigations of the Idiofa region in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo have yielded the earliest evidence for iron production, combined with ceramics and lithic artefacts, south of the Congo rainforest during the second century BC. Palaeoecological data show that the producers of this industry did not settle in open grasslands but in a habitat where the forests had started to undergo climate-induced degradati…
Nouvelle contribution à l’inventaire et la description des parlers teke (bantou, B70‐80)
Le présent article constitue une importante contribution à l’inventaire des parlers « teke » (bantou, B70‐80) de la République du Congo et de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Il rend compte de nos missions en pays « teke » du 8 avril au 15 juin 2021 et du 29 juin au 15 août 2022. Visant à combler le vide sur la répartition des parlers teke surtout en RDC, ce travail fait un inventaire général des variétés teke de la République du Congo,…
Erratic velars in West-Coastal Bantu
In this article, we present the first quantitative study of what we call multiple unconditioned reflexes (MUR) in Bantu, more specifically of Proto-Bantu velar stops *k and *g in the West-Coastal Bantu (WCB) branch of the Bantu language family. MUR, also known as “doubles reflexes” in Bantu studies, represent a situation where one and the same proto-sound has two or more reflexes in a given language which cannot be accounted for by phonological c…
Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -rderives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots. Second, we focus on five media tantum verbs, i.e., forms that synchronically carry the -rsuffix and have no counterpart without -r. Unlike most other verbs, these five forms are labile, i.e., they can occur in syntactically in…
Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (drc) as a Contact-Induced Change
In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss ( fvl ) in the Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We argue that this diachronic sound shift rose relatively late in Bantu language history as a contact-induced change and affected adjacent West-Coastal and Central-Western Bantu languages belonging to different phylogenetic clusters. We account for its …
Ancient West-Coastal Bantu Banana Vocabulary
Lexical data has been key in attempts to reconstruct the early history of the banana (Musa sp.) in Africa. Previous language-based approaches to the introduction and dispersal of this staple crop of Asian origin have suffered from the absence of well-established genealogical classifications and inadequate historical-linguistic analysis. We therefore focus in this article on West-Coastal Bantu (WCB), one specific branch within the Bantu family who…
Metáfora y tabú en anuncios en inglés entre 1920 y 1930
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el componente léxico-gramatical y dos dimensiones del lenguaje (estructura y sistema) en relación con el uso de las metáforas estructurales, ontológicas y en laorientacionales en anuncios en inglés de toallas sanitarias marca Kotex década 1920-1930. Se utilizarán para este propósito la gramática sistémico-funcional de Halliday (2004) y la propuesta de Lakoff y Johnson (1998) sobre metáforas. Finalmente, s…
The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest
Archaeological investigations of the Idiofa region in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo have yielded the earliest evidence for iron production, combined with ceramics and lithic artefacts, south of the Congo rainforest during the second century BC. Palaeoecological data show that the producers of this industry did not settle in open grasslands but in a habitat where the forests had started to undergo climate-induced degradati…
Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (drc) as a Contact-Induced Change
In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss ( fvl ) in the Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We argue that this diachronic sound shift rose relatively late in Bantu language history as a contact-induced change and affected adjacent West-Coastal and Central-Western Bantu languages belonging to different phylogenetic clusters. We account for its …
Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -rderives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots. Second, we focus on five media tantum verbs, i.e., forms that synchronically carry the -rsuffix and have no counterpart without -r. Unlike most other verbs, these five forms are labile, i.e., they can occur in syntactically in…
Metáfora y tabú en anuncios en inglés entre 1920 y 1930
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el componente léxico-gramatical y dos dimensiones del lenguaje (estructura y sistema) en relación con el uso de las metáforas estructurales, ontológicas y en laorientacionales en anuncios en inglés de toallas sanitarias marca Kotex década 1920-1930. Se utilizarán para este propósito la gramática sistémico-funcional de Halliday (2004) y la propuesta de Lakoff y Johnson (1998) sobre metáforas. Finalmente, s…
Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (drc) as a Contact-Induced Change
In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss ( fvl ) in the Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We argue that this diachronic sound shift rose relatively late in Bantu language history as a contact-induced change and affected adjacent West-Coastal and Central-Western Bantu languages belonging to different phylogenetic clusters. We account for its …
Ancient West-Coastal Bantu Banana Vocabulary
Lexical data has been key in attempts to reconstruct the early history of the banana (Musa sp.) in Africa. Previous language-based approaches to the introduction and dispersal of this staple crop of Asian origin have suffered from the absence of well-established genealogical classifications and inadequate historical-linguistic analysis. We therefore focus in this article on West-Coastal Bantu (WCB), one specific branch within the Bantu family who…
Erratic velars in West-Coastal Bantu
In this article, we present the first quantitative study of what we call multiple unconditioned reflexes (MUR) in Bantu, more specifically of Proto-Bantu velar stops *k and *g in the West-Coastal Bantu (WCB) branch of the Bantu language family. MUR, also known as “doubles reflexes” in Bantu studies, represent a situation where one and the same proto-sound has two or more reflexes in a given language which cannot be accounted for by phonological c…
Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -rderives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots. Second, we focus on five media tantum verbs, i.e., forms that synchronically carry the -rsuffix and have no counterpart without -r. Unlike most other verbs, these five forms are labile, i.e., they can occur in syntactically in…
Nouvelle contribution à l’inventaire et la description des parlers teke (bantou, B70‐80)
Le présent article constitue une importante contribution à l’inventaire des parlers « teke » (bantou, B70‐80) de la République du Congo et de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Il rend compte de nos missions en pays « teke » du 8 avril au 15 juin 2021 et du 29 juin au 15 août 2022. Visant à combler le vide sur la répartition des parlers teke surtout en RDC, ce travail fait un inventaire général des variétés teke de la République du Congo,…
Sound change versus lexical change for subgrouping
This article focuses on languages of the Kwilu-Ngounie subbranch within a branch of the Bantu language family known as West-Coastal Bantu. Within Kwilu-Ngounie, B70 and B80 languages emerge as paraphyletic in the most comprehensive lexicon-based phylogeny of the branch. We assess whether the impossibility to group them into lexicon-based monophyletic subgroups can be bypassed by using the phonological innovation of word-final loss of Proto-Bantu …
Labial-velar stops in Sakata (Bantu C34)
The present contribution bears on the documentation and description of a few unusual sounds, i.e. double labial-velar articulations, in a number of Bantu zone C varieties belonging to the so-called “Sakata cluster” in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These phonemes, often considered typical of a linguistic area known as the “Macro-Sudan Belt”, are considerably more common in southern Central Africa than previously thought. The…
The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest
Archaeological investigations of the Idiofa region in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo have yielded the earliest evidence for iron production, combined with ceramics and lithic artefacts, south of the Congo rainforest during the second century BC. Palaeoecological data show that the producers of this industry did not settle in open grasslands but in a habitat where the forests had started to undergo climate-induced degradati…
The coevolution of languages, peoples and environments in Central Africa’s Kwilu-Kasai region since ∼1000 BCE
In this article, Jan Vansina’s essay on the deep-time population history of the Kwilu-Kasai region, now more than half a century old, is revisited through the kaleidoscopic lens of newly collected linguistic, archaeological, palaeoecological and genetic evidence collected between 2018 and 2023. In contrast to Vansina’s view of the region as a terminus for the settlement of diverse Bantu speech communities, the area was likely an important center …
Noun Incorporation in Bribri
Vanishing Potters in the Ubangi River Basin
Philosophy (8 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Bantu languages (6 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · History (3 obras) · Language and cultural evolution (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras)