Projects

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Prosodic cues to syntactic reanalysis. Experimentally tracking Jespersen's cycle in progress

2019

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
Linguistics
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
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
Multilingual practices in Liège and Ghent. Code-switching in the Italian FL classroom

2019

This project aims at investigating the multilingual practices in Italian L2 classrooms in two urban areas of Belgium: the French-speaking city of Liège and the Dutch-speaking city of Ghent. The ...read more
Didactics
Linguistics
Language and legal counselling. A linguistic ethnography of multilingual support in the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium

2019

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
Communication
Interculturalism
Linguistics
EmotioNL: Emotion detection for Dutch

2019

This research project is situated in the field of NLP and focuses on automatic emotion detection in Dutch texts. Supervised machine learning techniques are currently considered as a state-of-the-art methodology ...read more
Contemporary
Language technology
Linguistics
The intonation of closely related varieties. The case of Campania Italian

2019

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
Linguistics
The Discourse of E-commerce Live-streamers in China and Its Influence on Viewers’ Post-feminist Ideologies

2019

E-commerce Livestreaming

When it comes to video-mediated communication, existent research primarily focuses on camgirls (Senft, 2008) and most lately, gaming and ordinary life livestreaming (Hamilton, Garretson & Kerne, 2014; Tylor, 2018). ...read more
Communication
Linguistics
Media
A socio-semiotic approach to code-switching and bigraphism in late antique documentary papyri

2019

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
Communication
Interculturalism
Linguistics
BantuFirst

2018

The Bantu Expansion is not only the principal linguistic, cultural and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa. It has also become one of the most controversial issues in African History. ...read more
Archaeology
History
Linguistics

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