This project concerns the development of a historical dialect database of the Flemish dialects for studying dialect syntax, based on the Reeks Nederlandse Dialectatlassen (RND). The concerned dataset is part ...read more
This project explores how prosody interacts with syntactic structure at different stages of an ongoing syntactic change. Innovatively, it will do so using experimental methods, studying the interaction of syntax and prosody. ...read more
Previous studies have argued that remote interpreting raises new issues with respect to the management of understanding and the organization of turn-taking in spoken interpreter-mediated interactions. However, little is known about how remote ...read more
This historical sociolinguistics project analyses the usage of the unstressed personal pronouns le(s), la(s) and lo(s) in a corpus of 16th-century Andalusian texts characterised by communicative immediacy or conceptional orality ...read more
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
This project focuses on the intonational differences between diatopically closely related varieties. The case study is represented by the intonation of Salerno Italian, which will be compared with two neighboring ...read more
Since the second half of 2015, Europe has faced a substantial increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers in need of international protection (UNHCR, 2015). EU law requires ...read more
The PhD project "A Socio-semiotic Approach to Code-switching and Bigraphism in Late Antique Documentary Papyri" is part of the ERC-funded project "Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt (I ...read more
MATCH-eN is a TETRA research project funded by VLAIO. The aim of the project is to develop, test and evaluate an open, shared knowledge platform that allows Flemish social profit ...read more
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