The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the ...read more
In linguistic research, opinions vary on how language variation functions and how it is structured. One vision emphasizes that free variation does not exist, that language variation is structured along ...read more
This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The ...read more
Logic is the discipline which studies reasoning. Logic has its roots in our argumentative practice,and was developed as a tool for the critical description and evaluation of natural languagearguments. These ...read more
Fellowship for Advanced Postdoc Mobility awarded to Dr. Thalia Brero (Université de Genève) by the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique - September 2018-February 2020.read more
This research project, a typology of passive constructions in Bantu, involves several fields of linguistics. It focuses on a particular language family, i.e. Bantu, and addresses the question of variation and micro-variation within ...read more
The project seeks to expand the histories of early modern art and science by recalibrating the definition and scope of Renaissance mathematical knowledge through the drawings, prints, and treatises that ...read more
In the mid-20th century, authors increasingly took to the new sonic medium of radio to expand their audience, experiment with new techniques, and express their cultural identity. If modernist scholars ...read more
This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more
Many languages have a basic V2 word order. This means that the verb linearly takes the second position in declarative main clauses, for instance in Standard Dutch (SD, 1).