This doctoral project investigates the role of polysemy (the phenomenon where a word has multiple meanings) and word families (groups of words derived from the same root) in the process ...read more
Science is supposed to produce knowledge that is empirically verifiable, reproducible, and allows for the explanation of regularities and the prediction of events in the world. Because of its reliability, ...read more
This project focuses on the question to what degree the functioning of language norms is invidually and culturally determined. This question is key to fully fathom the social and cognitive functioning ...read more
The AICAP project will create a fully annotated digital corpus of the inscriptions that were collected by the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) in their 2018-2020 surveys. Funded by the ...read more
Cancer is currently the leading cause of death in Belgium, accounting for ca. 27.000 yearly deaths. Despite an abundance of medical research, the history of cancer (victims) is basically unwritten. ...read more
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
Voices of Brussels is an Internationalisation at Home initiative organized at Ghent University. The project brings together students from the Department of Languages and Cultures and other humanities disciplines for ...read more
This project studies the overlooked history of peer review in the humanities between 1950 and today. In this period, peer review, i.e., the institutionalized evaluations of research and researchers by ...read more
In Spring 2024, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) is dedicating an archive presentation to Art Systems in Latin America, an exhibition of contemporary Latin American art that traveled to ...read more
The aim of this project is (1) to address Immanuel Kant’s view that a ‘transcendental grammar’ can be extracted from the pure concepts or ‘categories’ of the understanding, and (2) ...read more