In this Joint PhD project (Sichuan University / Ghent University) the focus is on Chan (Zen) Buddhist phrases in texts of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty periods, as ...read more
My research deals with the relation between the languages Kikongo and Lingala and the way the opposition between them has been activated throughout the history of the Congolese capital (1950s-present ...read more
The project deals with an important mechanism in Chinese writing, the use of “phonetic loan characters”, as exemplified in the Dunhuang manuscript corpus and with an emphasis of non-canonical material ...read more
This study will make a new interpretation of the 'Yongming poetic style' poems from a political perspective and argues that these poems are not a reaction to "a peaceful flourishing ...read more
All West Germanic languages have undergone Jespersen’s cycle, the directional development of the expression of negation by which an original preverbal negation particle (e.g. Old English ne) – stage I ...read more
Stylometry, a subfield of Digital Humanities, offers new methods for segregating different writing styles. So far, stylometry has been especially popular in authorship attribution studies. This project will approach issues ...read more
The aim of this project is to investigate the evolution of the gerund and the present participle from Late Latin to Medieval French. As a result of phonetic evolutions these ...read more
The aim of this project entitled ‘The internal syntax of QPs’, is to look inside quantifiers (Qs) and to identify the building blocks they are composed of. At first sight, ...read more
This PhD project is situated within the field of Romance comparative Linguistics and studies the behavior of verbs of putting, which are commonly used to express placement movements in space. ...read more
The Mamluk Sultanate was an Islamic regime that ruled over Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. While the population at large was Arab and spoke Arabic, its ruling elite ...read more