This project maps the mental representation of pluricentricity in the Dutch language area by empirically studying perceptions of and attitudes towards national grammatical and lexical variation. It will address the ...read more
Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
The ERC Consolidator project DAEDALOS aims to challenge the predominant metanarrative that uniformly sees monuments as an attribute of centralised, hierarchical political economies and top-down power structures, a view that ...read more
Regional pronunciations can result from the phonological contact between a standard language and its dialectal substrate. Such pronunciations might be less diversified compared to their substrate dialects, since regional varieties ...read more
A plethora of previous research has shown early beneficial effects of bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) on cognitive control (CC) (e.g. Crivello et al., 2016), working memory (WM), and ...read more
This project aims to determine the text characteristics of reading materials used in the Flemish EFL and FFL classroom, as well as the influence of these text characteristics on learners' ...read more
Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages. The same issues are observed ...read more
This project aims to investigate China's relational power and critique the so-called 'China's sharp power’ in China's diplomacy. This research will theorise the ‘relational power’ derived from pluralistically imagined ‘Chineseness’. The ...read more
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
The research project Hive Mind proposes a community- and institution-based approach to the study of early modern women and of their contributions to the arts and culture of the Low Countries. ...read more