Hilde Gunnink
@hildegunnink.bsky.social
Linguist, focusing on African languages. FWO postdoctoral researcher @UGent || Linguistics teacher @Leiden
[ˈhɪlˠdə ˈχønɪŋk]
[ˈhɪlˠdə ˈχønɪŋk]
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CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
Call collaborators
Call for collaborators MapLE project The NWO Vici project ‘Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity’ (MapLE) invites 5 collaborators to help with data collection and analysis. Come join the MapLE team! Desc…
epistemicity.net
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...
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✨New issue alert (Vol 34, No 3)!✨
As always, NJAS is fully free and #OpenAccess. Check it out now!
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njas.fi/njas/issue/v...
As always, NJAS is fully free and #OpenAccess. Check it out now!
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njas.fi/njas/issue/v...
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
✨New issue alert (Vol 34, No 3)!✨
As always, NJAS is fully free and #OpenAccess. Check it out now!
⬇️⬇️⬇️
njas.fi/njas/issue/v...
As always, NJAS is fully free and #OpenAccess. Check it out now!
⬇️⬇️⬇️
njas.fi/njas/issue/v...
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Come join us in Ghent next year for #Bantu11! The first cfp is out, with workshop proposals due October 15th (the next deadline will be December 1st for abstract submissions, which can be to a workshop or the general session)
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/
Bantu 11 Conference – BantUGent – UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
www.bantugent.ugent.be
September 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Come join us in Ghent next year for #Bantu11! The first cfp is out, with workshop proposals due October 15th (the next deadline will be December 1st for abstract submissions, which can be to a workshop or the general session)
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/
"She was living in her Updown world"
According to the excavators of the sites:
“The complete incorporation of Updown girl within her community and its customs strongly implies that her father, and potentially the deeper paternal line, was known to that community.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...
“The complete incorporation of Updown girl within her community and its customs strongly implies that her father, and potentially the deeper paternal line, was known to that community.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/investigat...
Investigating Africa's historic links with the Old World: ancient DNA and autobiographical evidence from England.
In 2022, archaeologists working on a cluster of early medieval cemeteries near the southern coast of England found the remains of two individuals with West African ancestry whose burials were dated to...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"She was living in her Updown world"
Click insertions in the wild (thread)
September 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Click insertions in the wild (thread)
Share your favourite words, etymologies, idioms, proverbs and riddles in African languages!
stemmenvanafrika.nl/contact/
stemmenvanafrika.nl/contact/
Contact – Stemmen van Afrika
stemmenvanafrika.nl
August 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Share your favourite words, etymologies, idioms, proverbs and riddles in African languages!
stemmenvanafrika.nl/contact/
stemmenvanafrika.nl/contact/
Who invented wine glasses? Who designed the most instable type of glass and said right, let's put the stuff that make you clumsy in it
August 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Who invented wine glasses? Who designed the most instable type of glass and said right, let's put the stuff that make you clumsy in it
Subtle (and not so subtle) racism in old (and not so old) publications on South African languages: a thread
July 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Subtle (and not so subtle) racism in old (and not so old) publications on South African languages: a thread
Why is it always "my collaborators don't speak English" and never "I don't speak isiZulu"?
(from Corrigan et al. 2011, "Ethnobotanical plant uses in the KwaNibela Peninsula, St Lucia, South Africa", South African Journal of Botany 77: 346-359)
(from Corrigan et al. 2011, "Ethnobotanical plant uses in the KwaNibela Peninsula, St Lucia, South Africa", South African Journal of Botany 77: 346-359)
July 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Why is it always "my collaborators don't speak English" and never "I don't speak isiZulu"?
(from Corrigan et al. 2011, "Ethnobotanical plant uses in the KwaNibela Peninsula, St Lucia, South Africa", South African Journal of Botany 77: 346-359)
(from Corrigan et al. 2011, "Ethnobotanical plant uses in the KwaNibela Peninsula, St Lucia, South Africa", South African Journal of Botany 77: 346-359)
Auer (1977: 459) reconstructs the word *ngamote 'room' to Proto-Sotho, whose perfect regularity clearly proves that Afrikaans contact predated the break-up of Proto-Sotho. 🙃
July 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Auer (1977: 459) reconstructs the word *ngamote 'room' to Proto-Sotho, whose perfect regularity clearly proves that Afrikaans contact predated the break-up of Proto-Sotho. 🙃
Metalinguistic data only it's data about which linguists hate each other, which linguists are married to each other, etc.
July 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Metalinguistic data only it's data about which linguists hate each other, which linguists are married to each other, etc.
No Turnitin, the student did not "swap letters with similar characters from another alphabet". They're called phonetic symbols
July 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
No Turnitin, the student did not "swap letters with similar characters from another alphabet". They're called phonetic symbols
How many South African place names are relics from languages that are no longer spoken there? Well, since 15% of recorded place names don't have an etymology in a known South African language, my guess is close to 15%.
July 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
How many South African place names are relics from languages that are no longer spoken there? Well, since 15% of recorded place names don't have an etymology in a known South African language, my guess is close to 15%.
I just read and graded a thesis in less time than it took Turnitin to check it for plagiarism, but please, do tell me about how AI will make humans obsolete.
June 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I just read and graded a thesis in less time than it took Turnitin to check it for plagiarism, but please, do tell me about how AI will make humans obsolete.
I have two review speeds: right away and never.
June 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I have two review speeds: right away and never.
Came across three versions of a Xhosa children's song played while counting the fingers in the Greater Xhosa Dictionary. Version three is a bit disturbing:
June 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Came across three versions of a Xhosa children's song played while counting the fingers in the Greater Xhosa Dictionary. Version three is a bit disturbing:
New data! The origin of Sesotho click words:
osf.io/txp87/files/...
osf.io/txp87/files/...
OSF
osf.io
June 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New data! The origin of Sesotho click words:
osf.io/txp87/files/...
osf.io/txp87/files/...
Why does every noun change into an adjective-modified noun phrase? "Urban spaces" instead of "cities", "female bodies" instead of "women", "linguistic codes" instead of "languages"...
June 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Why does every noun change into an adjective-modified noun phrase? "Urban spaces" instead of "cities", "female bodies" instead of "women", "linguistic codes" instead of "languages"...
I gave a talk about noun class assignment of non-Bantu loans in Bantu languages at the LUCL Brainstorm on Gender and Nominal Classification yesterday
(www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...). Slides and handout are here:
osf.io/ar7uv/files/...
(www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...). Slides and handout are here:
osf.io/ar7uv/files/...
LUCL Brainstorm on Gender and Nominal Classification - Leiden University
In this brainstorm session we would like to reflect on the role played by cognition and culture in nominal classification and gender systems. What are the gender assignment criteria in the nominal cl...
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl
June 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I gave a talk about noun class assignment of non-Bantu loans in Bantu languages at the LUCL Brainstorm on Gender and Nominal Classification yesterday
(www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...). Slides and handout are here:
osf.io/ar7uv/files/...
(www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...). Slides and handout are here:
osf.io/ar7uv/files/...
📣Publicly available dataset: Khoisan loanword database
Freely available here: osf.io/6gk3m/
Freely available here: osf.io/6gk3m/
Khoisan loanword database
This file contains a database of previously proposed loanwords from different Khoisan languages into different Bantu languages of Southern Africa.
This database only contains data from previously pub...
osf.io
June 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📣Publicly available dataset: Khoisan loanword database
Freely available here: osf.io/6gk3m/
Freely available here: osf.io/6gk3m/
Er is nog nooit een Ugandese paus geweest, maar dat wil niet zeggen dat de paus in Uganda geen rol speelt - tot de taalkunde aan toe! Op Stemmen van Afrika legt Jenneke van der Wal uit waarom de paus een doorslaggevende rol kan spelen in taalkundig onderzoek: stemmenvanafrika.nl/een-eekhoorn...
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Er is nog nooit een Ugandese paus geweest, maar dat wil niet zeggen dat de paus in Uganda geen rol speelt - tot de taalkunde aan toe! Op Stemmen van Afrika legt Jenneke van der Wal uit waarom de paus een doorslaggevende rol kan spelen in taalkundig onderzoek: stemmenvanafrika.nl/een-eekhoorn...
One of my more obscure hobbies is pronouncing words that aren't Bantu as if they are Bantu. Today: Megalake Makgadikgadi (mɪ-χalake ma-kxadikxadi) is obviously a Tswana class 4 word
May 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
One of my more obscure hobbies is pronouncing words that aren't Bantu as if they are Bantu. Today: Megalake Makgadikgadi (mɪ-χalake ma-kxadikxadi) is obviously a Tswana class 4 word
1970's South African linguistics: Mr Volschenk, Mr ǁowaseb and Mr Satyo are all mentioned, but only Mr Volschenk is prasied for his kindness and excellence
April 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
1970's South African linguistics: Mr Volschenk, Mr ǁowaseb and Mr Satyo are all mentioned, but only Mr Volschenk is prasied for his kindness and excellence
📣New paper: "Inheritance and contact in the development of lateral obstruents in Nguni languages", by Nina van der Vlugt & me, based on her MA thesis research. Now out open access: www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...
www.mdpi.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
📣New paper: "Inheritance and contact in the development of lateral obstruents in Nguni languages", by Nina van der Vlugt & me, based on her MA thesis research. Now out open access: www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...
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‘We died the day we left the forests’ - join us for this online lecture by prof Saudah Namyalo on documenting the lost heritage of the Basua (Uganda)
20 May, register for the zoom link
20 May, register for the zoom link
April 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
‘We died the day we left the forests’ - join us for this online lecture by prof Saudah Namyalo on documenting the lost heritage of the Basua (Uganda)
20 May, register for the zoom link
20 May, register for the zoom link