Cities such as Paris, Bruges, Ghent and Florence experienced remarkable growth from the High Middle Ages onwards. Recent scholarship indicates that this economic complexity was primarily driven by local and ...read more
My PhD-project combines a corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highland Bantu, a group of closely related languages from the Great Lakes region of Eastern ...read more
The starting point of this research proposal is that shedding light onto the question of whether there could be a markedly Kantian philosophy of language must pass through a thorough ...read more
Ce projet s’inscrit dans le cadre des réflexions qui élaborent des réponses à la crise écologique. Parmi celles-ci, l’idée de transition énergétique domine : elle consiste à chercher des solutions ...read more
COSMOPOET aims to rethink the relationship between poetry and astronomy and ultimately, it investigates medieval Greek solutions to the question as to how to explain the cosmos through literary means. ...read more
The Digo subgroup are tone of the groups in the Mijikenda community in Kenya. They primarily inhabit the southern coast and interior regions of Kwale, Kenya. The Digo people possess a ...read more
The project sets out to write a history of knowledge that takes the interaction between disciplines as its primary subject. The project’s historical framework is the postformative period, 1200-1800 CE, ...read more
Formulaic texts constitute a core interest of researchers working at UGent. Within the Greek section, there are two major ongoing research projects about such genres, an ERC-project about ‘everyday’ texts ...read more
This project will analyse the last revival of Manichaeism in the Eastern Mediterranean and the imperial persecution that seems to produce its disappearance from the region in the 6th century. ...read more
This doctoral research aims to reconceptualize the design and application of online Chinese-English specialized dictionaries for learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), with a particular focus on writing support. ...read more