ECSO brings together members of the RHEA Expertise Centre in Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality at VUB Brussels, and CRCG, Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at UGent. Members collaborate regularly ...read more
This project is looking for the Resultative Construction (= RC), e.g. John hammered the metal flat, in 2 Romance (i.e. French, Spanish) and 2 Germanic Languages (i.e. English and Dutch). ...read more
Machine translation systems cannot guarantee that the text they produce will be fluent and coherent in both syntax and semantics. Erroneous words and syntax occur frequently in machine-translated text, leaving the reader ...read more
This research project explores the idea that new things can be learned in interaction with devices outside of us. In my practice as a media-artist, the notion of a 'Dialogue ...read more
In 1992 I carried out fieldwork in Central Kenya, collecting Gikuyu oral narratives and discussing their historical relations to gender-identity and morality with the performers. Eventually this resulted in my ...read more
My dissertation “Encountering Psychogeographical Literary Moments: Readers’ Affective Enactment in Contemporary British Novels (2000-)” examines how embodied readers affectively enact fictional urban environments and the affordances mentioned through textual cues ...read more
In recent years, the Belgian colonial past and its contemporary legacies have increasingly become the subject of a public debate. This FWO-funded project starts from the hypothesis that the tensions in ...read more
In Romanian, a broad range of predicates is used with a subject-like experiencer argument in the dative (e.g. Mi-e somn ‘I feel sleepy’, lit. me.DAT is sleep) or, more rarely, ...read more
In 1529, the Order of the Knights of St John accepted the offer of a Mediterranean base from Charles V and relocated to the islands of the Maltese archipelago. During ...read more