Soon after the release of ChatGPT, the state of the art of generative AI in lexicography was surveyed (cf. de Schryver 2023). If one is to believe that survey, as ...read more
This project aims to describe and analyze the use of modal expressions (such as can, must, and maybe) in Swahili, focusing on variation and change across time and space. Spoken ...read more
This project aims to investigate the role of structural priming in translation. This cognitive mechanism has received only little attention in Empirical Translation Studies compared to the field of psycholinguistics. ...read more
In Latin classes in Flemish secondary schools, reading authentic Roman texts is the main objective. These texts are characterised by a high degree of complexity in terms of vocabulary, morphology ...read more
This research solves knowledge gaps concerning Vietnamese religion and philosophy in the 18th century (“zoomed-out”) by analyzing the inclusion of the Chinese Three Teachings (i.e., Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) in Le ...read more
Emotions have attracted a lot of attention in psychology, socio- and psycholinguistics and communication science, but since the past decade also in the fields of computational linguistics and natural language ...read more
This project sets out to provide a historiography of Kikongo language studies and management between 1624 and 1960. It will provide a detailed analysis and historical contextualization of linguistic sources ...read more
The late Qing Reformists were a Chinese political faction that advocated for a transition from monarchy to constitutional monarchy in the 1890s, and rose to prominence by leading the Hundred ...read more
This project examines interpreting practices in marriage fraud investigations conducted by Belgian authorities, in which a complex chain of interviews and reports results in the decision whether a transnational couple's ...read more