On January 27 and 28, the international workshop Angola: Bantu Languages, Portuguese. Historical Contact and Postcolonial Linguistic Normalizations will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt (January 27: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM; January 28: 10:00 AM–1:30 PM; SKW building, GU Frankfurt, Campus Westend, 5th floor).

The workshop is organized by the research group Bantu Languages and Luso-Bantu Contact, based at Goethe University Frankfurt (Prof. Axel Fanego), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Jun.-Prof. David Paul Gerards, Prof. Nico Nassenstein), and the University of São Paulo (Prof. Alexander Cobbinah).

The program includes the following talks from the fields of Lusophone and Bantu Linguistics. All talks are explicitly dedicated to bridging the gap between these two disciplines and are followed by discussion slots.

• Ana Paulla Braga Mattos (Århus): Leveraging Technology to Document Linguistic Data
• Maria do Céu Fonseca (Évora): Português de Angola e literatura angola: entre norma e variação
• Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (Augsburg): Angolan Portuguese as a non-Creole and a non-Pidgin
• Sebatião Iken (Köln): … e o você angolano? – On the pragmatics of address with você in the context of Afro-Portuguese language contact
• Liliana Inverno (Coimbra): A state of the art of Angolan Portuguese: opportunities and challenges for Romance and Bantu Studies
• Jacky Maniacky (Tervuren [Royal Museum for Central Africa]): Language contact in Northeastern Angola: the case of Minungu
• Lutz Marten (London [SOAS]): Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu languages of Angola
• Abel Massiala (Cabinda [ISCED], Angola): As 10 principais fatores que concorrem para o desparecimento das línguas africanas em Cabinda, Angola
• Paulo Osório (Lissabon [Universidade Aberta]): The Syntactic Individuality of Angolan Portuguese in relation to European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese: the Position of the Clitics
• Maud Devos (Gent & Tervuren [Royal Museum for Central Africa]): Portuguese influence on Shangaji, a Swahili language of Mozambique
• Sebastian Dom (Gent): A historiography of missionary linguistics in Cabinda: The Congrégation du Saint-Esprit (19th-20th century)
• Heidi Goes (Gent): Historical linguistic literature by laymen on the Kikongo language varieties spoken in Cabinda (Angola)
• Rozénn Guérois (Paris [LLACAN–CNRS]): The role of Angolan Bantu languages in education and the challenge of teacher training: A focus on the ISCED of Luanda
• David Paul Gerards (Mainz): Angola between Portugal and Brazil: attitudes, perception, and linguistic schizophrenia

We warmly invite you to participate in the workshop. For further details or to express your interest, please feel free to reach out to david.gerards@uni-mainz.de.