Projects

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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
ArcheOs. Research laboratory for biological anthropology

2020

The ArcheOs research laboratory for biological anthropology at Ghent University was established in 2020 within the Department of Archaeology. It aims to study the health, kinship, lifestyle and mobility of ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Africa
Anthropology
Antiquity
Archaeology
Belgium
Central Europe
Comparative
Contemporary
Field research
History
Isotopes
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
osteoarchaeology
Osteology
Prehistory (Stone Age)
proteomics
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
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
Diminutive expressions in Spanish-English codeswitching contexts. A multifactorial and multimethod account

2020

This project wants to contribute to a better understanding of the grammar underlying Spanish-English codeswitching phenomena. In particular, it looks into the factors governing an overlooked but highly productive construction in codeswitching contexts, ...read more
Bilingualism
Codeswitching
Comparative
Contemporary
Diminutive
English
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
North America
Quantitative
South America
Spanish
In search of the pristine environments in the lowland river system of Flanders for assessing the impact of past human occupation on current phosphate concentrations

2019

The Flemish region cannot cope with the guidelines set out in the European Water Framework Directive for good water quality, mainly due to excess nutrients. Over 80% of the rivers and ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
Comparative
Field research
human impact
past demography
past land-use
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
Scheldt basin
Surveys
Scanning electron microscopy at the core of earth sciences. Reading 4 billion years of history in backscattered light

2019

This project aims to replace the Dept. of Geology’s aging Scanning Electron Microscope with a model
that is up to challenges of modern Earth Science research in geology, archaeology and soil ...read more
Archaeology
Comparative
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
Back to the roots. Agroforestry and the rediscovery of Roman viticulture

2019

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
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Antiquity
Archaeology
Comparative
Contemporary
English
Field research
Geographic and map based
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Italian
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Southern Europe
Surveys
Syntax, semantics and discourse function of shell nouns in French and Romanian

2019

Shell nouns are a nominal category that has first been conceptualized by cognitive linguists such as Schmid (2000). This concept was later translated and further explored by French researchers (Legallois, 2006; ...read more
20th Century
Communication
Comparative
Construction grammar
Contemporary
Corpus-based
Corpus linguistics
Didactics
Eastern Europe
French
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Quantitative
Romanian
shell nouns
Western Europe
Forensic history

2019

I am finishing a book for Cambridge University Press on the use of history and historians by judges and lawyers in US litigation.read more
19th Century
20th Century
Comparative
Contemporary
English
Field research
History
Language and text analysis
North America
Quantitative
WW II conflict archaeology in Flanders

2019

Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been enormous progress in the field of conflict archaeology, especially in the First World War. This was further reinforced by the ...read more
20th Century
Archaeology
Belgium
Conflict archaeology
Field research
Geographic and map based
Quantitative
Second World War
Surveys
Western Europe

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