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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Redemption or death. Jainism’s transformation of the Hindu villain Kīcaka in Jaina Mahābhāratas

    2019

    Jainism as a living and influential minority religion on the Indian subcontinent came into being around the sixth century BCE. Despite sharing key concepts with Hindu traditions such as dharma, ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Asia
    • Comparative
    • Jainism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Literary studies
    • Middle Ages
    • Religion
    • Religious identity
    • Sanskrit
    • Sanskrit literature

  • Reading Pushkin, supporting Putin. Russian literature and the Kremlin’s nation-building agenda

    2018

    This project explores recent efforts by the Russian state to restore the flowering reading culture of Soviet times. The purpose of this policy is not fighting declining reading figures, but ...read more

    • Area studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Crisis of reading
    • Cultural politics
    • Eastern Europe
    • English
    • Field research
    • Globalization
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary canon
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • National identity
    • Post-soviet nostalgia
    • Russia
    • Russian
    • Russian literature

  • Turning diversity into capacity

    2018

    Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Belgium
    • Capacity building
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Cross-sectoral valorisation
    • Diversity
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • North-South exchange
    • Social inequalities in education

  • Production and diffusion of bronze age solid-hilted swords in Western Europe

    2018

    The proposed study region, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France, belongs during the Bronze Age to an area of contact between different cultural complexes. Its western part was integrated in ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax

    2018

    Lusoga has a form of nouns and verbs involving duplication of the root. For example, there are two copies of the verb root -w- ‘give’ in the sentence a-lii-ku-w-a bu-w-e ...read more

    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Bantu corpus linguistics
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Lusoga
    • Quantitative
    • Surveys
    • Uganda