Projects

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Documenting the Bantu languages of the last hunter-gatherer communities of the Mai-Ndombe and Lower Kasai regions (DRC). A pioneering phonetic and laboratory phonological study

2020

Linguistic diversity is disappearing (almost) as fast as biological diversity: very soon, we may no longer be able to know the sounds and structures of many of the world's languages. ...read more
Africa
African languages
Area studies
Bantu historical linguistics
Comparative
Evolutionary linguistics
Field research
Historical sociolinguistics
Laboratory phonetics and speech science
laboratory phonology
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
phonetic documentation
Phonetics and phonology
sociophonetics
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
Working the land, searching the soil. A geophysical framework for diachronic land-use studies

2020

Through an interdisciplinary approach, this project aims to redress current understanding of Neolithic land-use. Hereby, a synergy between archaeology, environmental studies and applied geophysics will provide insight into diachronic human-environment ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
Environmental Studies
Field research
Geoarchaeology
Geographic and map based
Geophysical prospection
Neolithic
past land-use
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
Soil Physics
Surveys
Western Europe
Directionality in morphosyntactic change: West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theory

2020

The proposed research will shed new light on a debate within Bantu, the largest language family in Africa and a recent offshoot of Niger-Congo, the world’s largest phylum. Many non-Bantu ...read more
Africa
African languages
Bantu
Bantu comparative linguistics
Bantu historical linguistics
Bantu linguistics
Comparative
Comparative linguistics
Comparative Method
degrammaticalization
Field research
Grammaticalization
Historical linguistics
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
morphosyntactic reconstruction
Niger-Congo
Proto-Bantu
West-Coastal Bantu
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
Queering narratives of ageing. Older queer women's unruly sexuality-assemblages

2020

Discourses on ageing women are changing from predominantly negative to more positive representations, but this is mainly true for people who fit the narrowly defined narratives of what is considered ...read more
Field research
Gender
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
Rethinking African gender histories. Time, change, and the deeper past in Northern Mozambique

2019

This project aims at rethinking ways of reading and writing change in African gender history. Looking at oral historical narratives and the transgenerational communication of historical knowledge among the Yaawo-speaking ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Contemporary
Field research
Gender
History
Water landscapes of Turfan

2019

This research contains the water landscapes in the arid region of Turfan (Xinjiang, China). The focus will be both on the anthropological and cultural ties to the elements used to ...read more
Archaeology
Asia
Far East
Field research
Geographic and map based
Surveys
The development of standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Yunnan, Southwest China

2019

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
Akha
Area studies
Asia
Chinese
Chinese education
Contemporary
Didactics
English
Far East
Field research
Hani culture
Hani dialects
Hani language
Hani minority
Hani standard language
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Minority education in China
Oriental languages
Surveys
Tibeto-Burman languages

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