MMS focused on the reconstruction of the political traditions that organised the interplay between powerful individuals, political institutions and social interactions in 15th-century Egypt and Syria, in the so-called Mamluk ...read more
The present PhD project aims at refining current knowledge about the driving forces in Dutch constituent ordering of non-predicate prepositional phrases (PPs) as well as re-evaluating the common assumption in ...read more
Episode II is the centre piece in a trilogy that deals with the consumption of images in relation to poverty, violence, social commitment and duplicity. Within the context of Episode ...read more
A pragmatic theory of scientific explanation can be characterized as follows: (1) it starts from the idea that why-questions originate in different epistemic interests, (2) it answers questions about the ...read more
The general aim of this project is to study the structure and dynamics of values and norms from a formal logical point of view. Conflicts between values and/or norms will ...read more
This dissertation investigates the language development of young deaf children in Flanders in both spoken Dutch and Flemish Sign Language or VGT. In the current context of cochlear implantation this ...read more
In today's literature on scientific explanation causal-mechanist accounts have become so dominant that they have pushed unificationism into the background. However, scientists themselves still apply the concept of unification in ...read more
The central topic of this PhD project is the representation of one specific Viking-age woman in medieval and early modern Icelandic literature over a period spanning roughly from the middle of the 12th century ...read more