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
This project is a contribution to the ongoing typological debate on alignment patterns in the languages of the world, and in particular how referential hierarchies interact with these patterns. Alignment ...read more
This postdoctoral project focuses on representations of Holocaust memory by authors of the second and third generations, and examines more precisely how the body serves as a vector for memories of ...read more
In line with recent claims that media research should not only chart the professional cultures of “privileged” full-time reporters and hence marginalize other news workers (Wahl-Jorgenson 2009), the project investigates ...read more
This project’s aim is to gain insights into the various linguistic devices of Chilean speakers when addressing each other in conversation. For instance, usted is generally known as an expression ...read more
The project's aim is to deepen our understanding of the syntactic properties of the Latin clause. Assuming the traditional division of the clause in Vorfeld, Mittelfeld and Nachfeld, the focus ...read more
In this project we contribute to one of the major issues in the Generative approach, namely how much the interpretive component of languages – and more specifically the interpretive component referred to ...read more
This dissertation is a detailed study of the reinforced demonstrative pronoun (RDem) of the oldest Northwest Germanic (NWGmc) languages: Runic Norse (RN) súsi, sási, þatsi; Old Norse (ON) sjá/þessi, sjá/þessi, ...read more
Sociolinguistic study of all Greek private letters on papyri and ostraca (approx 4,000-5,000), with focus on (1) the letter formulas and (2) their language. Both topics have a distinctive value ...read more