This project focuses on the intonational differences between diatopically closely related varieties. The case study is represented by the intonation of Salerno Italian, which will be compared with two neighboring ...read more
Almost fifty years ago, a team of scientists sent a wave of excitement throughout the scientific world when they successfully managed to transfer genes from one microbacterium to another, thereby ...read more
In today’s world, tertiary education institutions globally are increasingly fostering international professional and academic ambitions in their students, while purposefully equipping them with the cross-disciplinary skill sets needed to turn ...read more
PhD research Ioanna Kostopoulou, joint PhD Ghent University - Universität Tübingen. The scheduled PhD project aims at achieving a better understanding of the multicultural character of the site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos ...read more
Legacies of slavery tend to affect societies deeply, but in inland East Africa have remained little explored. This project aims [1] to establish what happened to the hundreds of thousands ...read more
Research on dictionary use, which has grown in importance since the 1990s, is a type of dictionary research which aims to provide the foundation for the refinement of completed and ...read more
This project examines a representative corpus of digital comics from a narratological perspective, analyzing the way they experiment with the possibilities offered by the digital format. This includes reflecting on the forms ...read more
Negation is a universal property of human language. Every language has a means to negate a sentence. However, languages vary as to how many different forms they have at their disposal to ...read more
In IV century BC, many important terms that had to do with wisdom (sophia), such as “philosophy” (philosophia), “philosopher” (philosophos), “sophistry” (sophistikê) and “sophist” (sophistês), had not yet received the definition they ...read more