Projects

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The life of a Buddhist manuscript. The Mūlasarvastivadin Dīrghāgama manuscript, its influence on Buddhist textual production, and the development of canonical Buddhist material in the first millennium of the common era

2019

The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the ...read more
Asia
Chinese
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Oriental languages
Philosophy
Religion
Sanskrit
On the ontological status of linguistic systems. An empirical study on coherence in spoken Surinamese and Belgian Dutch

2019

In linguistic research, opinions vary on how language variation functions and how it is structured. One vision emphasizes that free variation does not exist, that language variation is structured along ...read more
Multilingual encounters in the late medieval town. Rewriting history in multilingual social and political contexts in late medieval Flanders and Brabant, 1380-1500

2019

This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The ...read more
15th Century
Dutch
English
French
History
Italian
Language and text analysis
Latin
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Western Europe
The intonation of closely related varieties. The case of Campania Italian

2019

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
Linguistics
Tracing the roots of resistance. Critical communities and the protest against genetically modified organisms in Europe (1980 - 2005)

2019

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
The EMI content lecturer as a language policy broker

2019

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
The multicultural character of the Pyla-Kokkinokremos settlement around 1200 B.C. by means of pottery analysis and interpretation

2019

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
Archaeology
The aftermath of slavery in East Africa

2019

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
Specialized digital frame-based lexicography from the perspective of dictionary use research

2019

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
Contemporary
English
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Lexicography
Linguistics
Portuguese
Quantitative
South America
Digital comics. Forms and functions

2019

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
Literary studies
Media

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