"[…] pour éviter qu’aujourd’hui une guerre en Ukraine accable tant les portefeuilles et que demain un autre événement vienne encore appuyer sur la plaie, il est urgent de mettre en
Linguistic changes often follow a cyclical path whereby the original formal expressions are worn down and first reinforced and later replaced by new ones. In how far such ‘micro-cycles’ conspire ...read more
Every year, the VRT selects the 'Tienerwoord van het Jaar'. In 2024, the honor went to noncha ('chill, carefree'), while in 2023, heftig (used to emphasize something striking) was chosen. The ...read more
This project proposal seeks to bridge significant gaps in the understanding of Migration or Integration Language Tests (MILTs) by scrutinizing their rationale, construction, operationalization, and impact within the contexts of migration and ...read more
Bésɨro and Bolivian Guaraní are two communities in Bolivia that share a history of forced migrations and, to this day, face linguistic and cultural erasure. However, they adopted opposite survival ...read more
During the Post-Classical period (III BC - VI AD), Greek underwent significant changes in relation to its case-system, among which the development of the genitive case. Despite the importance of ...read more
This PhD project pursues a comprehensive study of Anyue (Sichuan) stone carvings related to Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang and Song dynasties, using a mixed methodology of iconographic analysis and tracing Esoteric Buddhist ...read more
By the end of the ninth century CE, vernacular languages had definitively replaced Latin in everyday oral interactions throughout the Carolingian world. However, Latin remained by and large dominant in ...read more
This study examines gendered linguistic practices in Post-Classical Greek (31 BC–600 AD) by analyzing bidirectional texts, i.e. written exchanges that reflect an interaction between sender and recipient, including documentary letters, ...read more
Ancient Greek distinguishes between imperfective and perfective aspect in all moods of the verb, including the imperative mood. Although this is an rare feature typologically, we still only have a ...read more