Immigrant children’s poor school results are often linked to their linguistic background. More traditional measurements which compare groups of non-native and native speakers pose serious limitations and result in too ...read more
Alignment and argument structure lies at the heart of all current theoretical models in linguistics, both syntactic models and research within typology. In spite of that, no large-scale comprehensive study ...read more
Historiography begins with narrations of the ancient Greek historians Herodotos and Thucydides on the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, and subsequent historians tend to share their preoccupation with great actors of ...read more
This PhD research aims at a systematic and corpus-driven study in Luganda of how the modal core concepts of possibility and necessity are expressed, along with closely related categories, such as ...read more
The project traced the historical development of the ‘conditional’ use of modal verbs in the West Germanic (WG) languages, seen in 'If there should be a problem/Should there be a problem, don’t ...read more
The history of the Kongo area has been more thoroughly studied than that of any other region in Central Africa. We have unequalled insights in the area’s history of the last ...read more
The aim of this PhD project was to provide a comprehensive grammatical description of Fwe, an underdocumented Bantu language spoken in Zambia and Namibia.read more
The starting point of the research was the construction illustrated in (1), reported for West Flemish in Haegeman and Van Koppen (2012) and so far not described in the literature. ...read more
This project aims to explore the motivations behind the case alternation between accusative (ACC) and dative (DAT) after two-way prepositions in present-day German (PDG). Special attention goes to those instances ...read more
The main objective of the Validiv project is to valorise existing linguistic diversity and the linguistic repertoires of pupils (e.g., English, French, immigrant languages) within educational processes in primary education ...read more