Projects

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The expression of modality in Kirundi. A corpus-based approach

2009

The overall goal of this doctoral study is to investigate the different types of modal markers in Kirundi, to describe their syntactic properties and semantic values, and to establish their ...read more
Africa
African languages
Linguistics
Secularism, colonialism and the Enlightenment. European toleration and the rise of fundamentalism in South Asia

2009

This project built on three hypotheses that resulted from earlier research on the development of the liberal model of secularism and toleration:

(1) The basic structure of this model fails to ...read more
Innovation (bidʿa), apostasy (irtidād) and blasphemy (sabb) according to Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328). A diachronic study of an influential Islamic doctrine

2009

Ik beoog de diachrone studie en reconstructie van de ideeën inzake apostasie (irtidād), blasfemie (sabb) en innovatie (bid‘a) van Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), één van de invloedrijkste moslimdenkers in heden en ...read more
History
Religion
MP3. Mamluk political prosopography project

2009

MP3 is an ongoing 'open' relational database that operates as the basic research tool ('laboratory') for those members of the UGent Mamluk team that use prosopographical, sociographical and discourse-oriented methodologies; ...read more
15th Century
Arabic
Arabic literature
Biography
Conflict
Digital humanities
History
Institutions
Language and text analysis
Medieval chronicles
Middle Ages
Middle East
Prosopography
Relational database
Social networks
Early warning system

2009

The Kosovo Early Warning System Project is aimed at building the capacity of local analysts to foresee potential crises, and based on its findings to advise on crisis prevention policies. ...read more
Area studies
Communication
Ethics and morality
Gender
Interculturalism
Media
Cooking life. The vibrant entanglement of food and human beings in Sri Lanka

2009

Creatively operationalizing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ predicament that food is good to think with, I initiate a methodological conceptualization of food by exploring the ways in which it is apt to study ...read more
Filafani in Folona. Moddertextiel en Sadogo-divinatie bij de Senufo van Folona, Mali

2009

Het proefschrift behandelt Filafani, ‘Fila-stof‘ of door de Fila/Peul beschilderd moddertextiel, in de periode van 1997-2007 in de Senufo-gemeenschap van Folona in Zuid-Mali. In een combinatie van kunstwetenschappelijke en antropologische ...read more
Methusalem

2009

This project aims at closing the gap between musical experience and the digital/electronic environments that provide this experience (see Leman, 2007). Solutions will be based on empirical methods and advanced ...read more
Relevance marking in lectures. A corpus-based study

2009

This research focuses on relevance marking in lectures. On the basis of an analysis of lectures from the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus, the lexicogrammatical devices are identified that ...read more
Contemporary
English
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Western Europe
Accoucher la citoyenneté. Expériences et témoignages de femmes sans-papiers à propos de le leur travail maternel

2009

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Ethics and morality
Gender