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  • The system of Mohist logic and its methodology (新原辩)

    2018

    The research project The System of Mohist Logic and Its Methodology engages with the work «Mozi» (《墨子》, mò zǐ), ascribed to the philosopher Mozi (墨子, trad. ca.470–391 BCE). The scholarship does not agree ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Asia
    • Chinese
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • French
    • German
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Philosophy

  • Writing the past in exile. The interwar Russian émigré historical novel (1917-1939)

    2018

    The research project aims to scrutinize the interwar Russian émigré historical novel, i.e. the phenomenon itself, how it relates to émigré culture, and its relation to other (older and contemporary) ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • Area studies
    • Cultural history
    • Cultural identity
    • Cultural memory
    • Cultural trauma
    • Emigration
    • English
    • Exile
    • Historical novel
    • History
    • Interwar period
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Russian
    • Russian literature
    • Émigré culture

  • Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology, 1830-1952

    2018

    In Belgium, Egyptology emerged later than elsewhere in Europe, but once under steam, it went through a rapid growth in the course of the first half of the 20th century. ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Digital humanities
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • History
    • History of science
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Middle East
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • 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

  • David, our Orpheus. Reception, rewritings and adaptations of the psalms in Byzantine poetry

    2018

    The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the poetical features of the ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Book epigrams
    • Byzantine poetry
    • Byzantium
    • Eastern Europe
    • Greek
    • Greek palaeography
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Literary studies
    • Middle Ages
    • Psalms
    • Religion

  • 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

  • Genocide commemoration in the Rwandan diaspora

    2018

    This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe

  • A semantic and etymological study on Greek ἀραρίσκω 'to adapt' and its cognates

    2018

    The purpose of this project is to perform a semantic and etymological study of the Greek verb ἀραρίσκω ‘to adapt’ and its cognates. The origin of the word, i.e. its ...read more

    • Africa
    • Antiquity
    • Asia
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • Eastern European languages
    • English
    • Etymology
    • Far East
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • History
    • Icelandic
    • Language and text analysis
    • Latin
    • Linguistics
    • Middle East
    • Northern Europe
    • Oriental languages
    • Proto-Indo-European
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Russian
    • Sanskrit
    • Southern Europe
    • Western Europe

  • Sociolinguistic aspects of Greek vocabulary in documentary sources. Atticism, register, and diachrony in Koine and early Byzantine Greek

    2018

    The documentary (non-literary) Greek material of Egypt (papyri, ostraca, inscriptions), as well as additional literary and semi-literary comparanda, will be collated and analysed to contextualise the processes of change taking ...read more

    • Africa
    • Antiquity
    • Greek
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Linguistics
    • Middle East
    • Southern Europe

  • The contribution of inscriptional evidence for the analysis of the vulgar Latin vowel system (ranging from the republican age to the proto-romance period). Rome and Italy, a comparative study

    2018

    The project investigates the evolution of the vowel system within the so-called 'Latin-Romace transition'. This research will be devoted to determining whether a sociolinguistic variation (both stylistic, diastratic and diatopic) ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Comparative
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Latin
    • Linguistics
    • Quantitative