In this research project, the concept ‘sheltering and heating programs’ of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk will be applied to the study of contemporary German language literary travel texts. Programs of sheltering and ...read more
This research project addresses the development of corporate identities in Benedictine monasteries situated in the bishopric of Liège in the late eleventh and twelfth century. This development can be uniquely studied through ...read more
This project aims for a structural and comparative study of Roman trade, trying to pinpoint which features are essentially Roman and which are shared with other pre-industrial societies. By confronting ...read more
The project is situated in the field of phonology and aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how childrenacquire the sound system of a second language (L2). While previous research ...read more
This project consists in a contrastive study of the English and Dutch verbs of appearance seem/appear/turn out and lijken/schijnen/blijken, which may serve an evidential function in that they indicate the ...read more
This project aims to provide a historical and contextual study of the authorized and unauthorized poems by the Victorian poets Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti in nineteenth-century British and American ...read more