This project investigates how Chinese Buddhist translations shaped the grammaticalization of modal and quasi-modal expressions in Middle Chinese. Rather than treating Buddhist texts as passive transmitters of linguistic change, the ...read more
MaTIAS, which stands for Machine Translation for Asylum Seekers, is a project designed to support multilingual communication in asylum reception centres in Belgium through the development of a multilingual messaging ...read more
OTTOWAQF will examine how religious foundations shaped state building in the Ottoman Empire during a crucial period between 1450 and 1650. Religious foundations controlled vast swaths of land and property ...read more
This PhD project explores the interplay between travel, translation, heritage and memory through a study of a 13th-century Chinese travel writing of Cambodia—the only surviving eyewitness account of heyday Angkor ...read more
The Middle Bronze Age in Crete is a period of demographic expansion, stunning material cultural production, and growing interaction with the broader Eastern Mediterranean. The archaeological deposits associated with this ...read more
Elective Egg Freezing (EEF) provides women with the possibility to delay childbearing and still have a genetically related child. This project aims to contribute ethnographic insights from India - an Asian lower-middle-income country ...read more
This project explores the use of space, place, and landscape in a group of historical narratives of the late eleventh and early twelfth century Byzantium, a time of immense territorial ...read more
This projects fits within the vast body on politeness research, but focuses on one specific politeness strategy in Spanish, namely the speech act of apologizing. Although a large number of ...read more
From the late fourteenth century onwards, collegiate chapters in the Meuse-Rhine region started to coordinate their relics displays. Every seven years they put their relics on display in July, thus ...read more
This project uses methods from Discourse analysis (DA) and Conversation Analysis (CA) to investigate interpreter-mediated communication (IMC) in neuropsychological assessments (tests of cognitive performance) and doctor-patient consultations targeting neurological and ...read more