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Rebecca GROLLEMUND

Assistant Professor

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2016-present: Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, MO.

2012-2016: Postdoctoral Researcher at Reading University (UK), in Mark Pagel's Evolutionary Biology Group (Mother Tongue Starting Grant 268744 from the European Research Council).

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Grollemund, R., 2012, "Nouvelles approches en classification : Application aux langues bantu du Nord-Ouest", Thèse, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 550 p. (pdf)

Grollemund, R., 2006, "Les Okande du Gabon, locuteurs d'une langue en danger (langue bantu du groupe B 30). Langue et culture", Mémoire de Master 2, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, 249 p.  (pdf)

Grollemund, R., 2005, "Esquisse de description de l'okande - Langue bantu du groupe B 30", Mémoire de Master 1, Sciences du Langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, 49 p.

Grollemund, R., Branford, B., Hombert, J.M. & Watters, J., à paraître, "Towards a new phylogenetic classification of Bantoid languages", in Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction, Watters, J. (ed), Language Science Press

Philippson, G. & Grollemund, R., 2019, "Classifying Bantu Languages", in The Bantu Languages, Second Edition, Van de Velde, M., Bostoen, K., Nurse, D. & Philippson, G. (eds), Routledge Language Family series, London-New-York, Routledge Press, pp. 335-354

Hombert, J.M. & Grollemund, R., 2018, "Phylogenetic Classification of Grassfields Languages", in Revealing structure: Finding patterns in grammars and using grammatical patterns to elucidate language. A Festschrift to honor Larry M. Hyman, Buckley, G., Crane, T. & Good, J. (eds), Stanford, California, CSLI Publications, pp. 85-103

Grollemund, R. & Hombert, J.M., 2012, "Use of Plant Names for the Classification of the Bantu Languages of Gabon", in Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Connell, B. & Rolle, N. (eds), Somerville, MA, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 150-163 (pdf)

Patin, E., Lopez, M., Grollemund, R., Verdu, P., Harmant, C., Quach, H., Laval, G., Perry, G., Barreiro, L., Froment, A., Heyer, E., Massougbodji, A., Fortes-Lima, C., Migot-Nabias, F., Bellis, G., Dugoujon, J.M., Pereira, J., Fernandes, V., Pereira, L., Van der Veen, L., Mouguiama-Daouda, P., Bustamante, C., Hombert, J.M. & Quintana-Murci, L., 2017, "Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America ", Science, 356:6337, pp. 543-546

Bostoen, K., Clist, B., Doumenge, C., Grollemund, R., Hombert, J.M., Koni Muluwa, J. & Maley, J., 2015, "Middle to Late Holocene Palaeoclimatic Change and the Early Bantu Expansion in the Rain Forests of West Central-Africa", Current Anthropology, 56:3, pp. 354-384

de Schryver, G.M., Grollemund, R., Branford, S. & Bostoen, K., 2015, "Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo language cluster", Africana Linguistica, 21, pp. 87-162

Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Bostoen, K., Meade, A., Venditti, C. & Pagel, M., 2015, "Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 112:43, pp. 13296-13301 (article)

Bostoen, K., Grollemund, R. & Muluwa, J., 2013, "Climate-induced vegetation dynamics and the Bantu Expansion: Evidence from Bantu names for pioneer trees (Elaeis guineensis, Canarium schweinfurthii, and Musanga cecropioides)", C.R. Geoscience, 345:7-8, pp. 336-349 (article)

Grollemund, R., 2015, "Bantu expansion: genetic classification and emergence of agriculture", Biological Anthropology Seminar Talk, University College London (UCL), London, United Kigndom, 17th March 2015

Grollemund, R., 2015, "A phylogenetic classification of Bantu languages and its implications for ancient migration", Cambridge Classics Research Seminar, Cambridge, 11th March 2015

Grollemund, R., 2015, "TBA", SOAS Departmental Seminars, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London, postponed

Grollemund, R., 2015, "Bantu population dispersal throughout Africa shows preference for routes following familiar habitats", Séminaire du Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Lyon, 12th June 2015

Grollemund, R., 2015, "Linguistic and archaeological evidence shows that the Bantu expansion followed savannah corridors", McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 16th November 2015

Grollemund, R. & Philippson, G., 2019, "A tentative new phylogenetic classification of zone A languages, based on consonant correspondences", 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Workshop "Languages of Cameroon", Vancouver, Canada, 22-25/05/2019

Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Hombert, J.M. & Pagel, M., 2016, "Genetic unity of the Niger-Congo family", Towards Proto-Niger Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction (2nd International Congress), Paris, Sept 1-3

Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Bostoen, K., Meade, A., Venditti, C. & Pagel, M., 2015, "Bantu population dispersal throughout Africa shows preference for routes following the savannah", World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 8), Kyoto, Japan, 21-24 August 2015

Grollemund, R., Branford, S., Field, S., Hombert, J.M. & Pagel, M., 2015, "Towards a new phylogeny of Niger-Congo languages", World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 8), Kyoto, Japan, 21-24 August 2015

Verkerk, A. & Grollemund, R., 2015, "Diachronic change in Niger-Congo noun class systems", World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 8), Kyoto, Japan, 21-24 August 2015