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Field research
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  • Mountains, Mobility and Memory

    2021

    The Apennine mountain chain in Italy is often described as a crossroads of cultures during the pre-Roman Metal Ages (ca. 3000-300 BC), but archaeologists know little about how, why and ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pollino Archaeological Landscape Project

    2020

    The Pollino Archaeological Landscape Project is a research collaboration between the departments of Archaeology of the universities of Ghent (Belgium) and Groningen (The Netherlands), and the Gruppo Speleologico 'Sparviere' (Italy), ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Area studies
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • 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