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Transitivity oppositions in a diachronic typological perspective. Labile verbs in the history of the Indo-European languages

2021

Many linguists believe that the language of our Indo-European ancestors had a considerable number of verbs which may appear both in intransitive and transitive constructions with no formal change in ...read more
Antiquity
Asia
Central Europe
Comparative
Dutch
Eastern Europe
Eastern European languages
English
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Icelandic
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Linguistics
Middle Ages
Northern Europe
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Russian
Sanskrit
Southern Europe
Western Europe
WiLMa. Writing in a second language with machine translation

2021

Second language (L2) learners often resort to machine translation (MT) to help them during the writing process, which is why it is important to understand how L2 learners use MT ...read more
CAF measures
Dutch
Eye-tracking
Keystroke logging
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistic features
Linguistics
Machine translation
Quantitative
Second language acquisition
Stimulated recall
Surveys
Swedish
Translation Studies
Writing
Local communities between the cracks of history. Changing traditions, materiality and regional networks in the (former) Roman North during the 5th century

2021

The 5th century marks the transition from the Roman to the Medieval world, an essential turning point in European history. However, when we try to identify it in the archaeological ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
Belgium
Dutch
English
French
German
History
Late Antiquity
Western Europe
Newly arrived migrants in secondary schools. Charting linguistic expectations and didactic practices, exploring new possibilities

2020

The aim of this project is to compare the linguistic reality of Dutch immersion classes for newly arrived migrants to the linguistic reality of Dutch-medium instruction in secondary education. Additionally, ...read more
Dutch
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
Shared interest or mutual competition? The organization of voluntary jurisdiction in the Southern Low Countries during the late Middle Ages (1278-1433)

2020

The status of the present-day Belgian notariat is currently being questioned by politicians, and its prominent social position in the recording and authentication of private transactions is at stake. This ...read more
15th Century
Belgium
Comparative
comparative legal history
Counties of Flanders and Hainaut
customary legal practices
Dutch
French
High and Late Middle Ages
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Pragmatic literacy
Quantitative
Western Europe
Connections between semantically or formally similar Dutch auxiliary constructions: the nature of horizontal links and their influence on grammar

2020

This project is aimed at the investigation of horizontal links in two clusters of constructions featuring the auxiliarized Dutch verbs komen ‘to come’ and krijgen ‘to get, receive’. Horizontal links, ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
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
Hub Developing in Diversity

2019

The Hub Developing in Diversity wants to apply social innovation to increase opportunities for all children, youth and adults in Ghent. We mainly address social inequality in a learning context, by ...read more
Belgium
Contemporary
Didactics
Diversity in education
Dutch
Gender
Interculturalism
Social innovation
Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology, 1830-1952

2018

In Belgium, Egyptology emerged later than elsewhere in Europe, but once under steam, it went through a rapid growth in the course of the first half of the 20th century. ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Africa
Archaeology
Belgium
Digital humanities
Dutch
English
French
History
History of science
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Middle East
Quantitative
Western Europe
Turning diversity into capacity

2018

Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Belgium
Capacity building
Comparative
Contemporary
Cross-sectoral valorisation
Diversity
Dutch
English
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
North-South exchange
Social inequalities in education

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