Legacies of slavery tend to affect societies deeply, but in inland East Africa have remained little explored. This project aims [1] to establish what happened to the hundreds of thousands ...read more
Language patterns are more or less ‘productive’, depending on their lexical scope. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to compare attested productivity, in present-day language use as well as through history, ...read more
This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks ...read more
Time Machine is a FET-Flagship/LSRI CSA project in preparation of a full FET Flagship/LSRI proposal, funded by the EU through the H2020 programme. ...read more
Digitalization has increased the importance of algorithms in society, and in the production and consumption of news. This project is conceived as an interdisciplinary investigation to develop an algorithm that ...read more
Second phase of the VLIRUOS-IUS with Mzumbe U, now with focus on transversal themes, after successful midterm evaluation in April 2018 (yet still pending formulation week of May 2018). The ...read more
Generally speaking, the main focus in Cuban migration studies has been on recent emigration streams to the United States, following the fall of the USSR and its consequences for Cuba’s ...read more
Cross-linguistic comparison of language's diachronies has shown that new negators arise from an originally optional pragmatic reinforcer – i.e. an expression equivalent to ‘(not) a drop/a thing' in English. This ...read more
The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely ...read more