Books By Mark L. O. van de Velde, Koen A. G. Bostoen, Derek Nurse, Gérard Philippson - Author

Mark Van de Velde is a researcher at LLACAN (CNRS-INaLCO) in Paris, of which he has been the director since 2015. He works on the grammatical analysis and documentation of the north-western Bantu languages and the languages of the Benue valley in Nigeria, especially those currently classified as Adamawa. He is also interested in linguistic typology and in the comparative study and reconstruction of Bantu grammar, particularly in the domain of the noun phrase.

Koen Bostoen is Professor of African Linguistics and Swahili at Ghent University and member of the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies. His research focuses on Bantu languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the African past. He obtained an ERC Starting Grant for the KongoKing Project (2012-2016) and an ERC Consolidator's Grant for the BantuFirst project (2018-2022). Apart from several research articles, he is the author of Des mots et des pots en bantou: une approche linguistique de l'histoire de la céramique en Afrique (