Between 2006 and 2008, I was involved in the 
Bantu-Romance
    Connection project
    with 
Katherine
    Demuth.  The aim was to investigate the similarities between
    Bantu and Romance languages.  It started with an exploratory
    workshop funded by the
    
Euroopean Science Foundation,
    and resulted in the publication of
    an 
edited volume based on work
    presented at the workshop and revised to incorporate a
    cross-linguistic perspective.  Click 
here to
    access the project webpage.