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
This project studies the role of the child (defined as younger than 18) from a sensorial perspective in a transnational corpus of contemporary US-Mexican border literature for adults, in which ...read more
The visibility of queerness in mainstream culture is increasing, including a wider representation of gender expressions and sexual orientations – meaning that they are now named (such as transgender and non-binary). ...read more
The PhD project studies the development of Standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Pu'er (Yunnan), with the following questions as key issues: (1) What is ...read more
There is still a widespread view that Rome’s expanding economic influence over the Mediterranean in the Late Republic (ca. 200-50 BC) triggered a dramatic change in Italy’s wine industry. This ...read more
This PhD investigates Tanzania's covert politics through a focus on Bhoke Munanka's role in nationalism during the colonial era and Tanzania's post-colonial development through a thematically focused biographical approach. ...read more
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to work on ‘directed evolution’. The latter is not a new theory or discovery, but a technique to let natural selection shape ...read more
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
In our fast-changing world that is ever-more characterised by global flows, systems and networks, intercultural communication is a dynamic field. The ubiquity of cultural and linguistic contact in a ‘flat’ ...read more