In certain varieties of Flemish, a possessor need not be structurally adjacent to its possessee. Examples of this are the Flemish External Possessor (FEP) (Haegeman & van Koppen 2012), Flemish ...read more
Recent studies have suggested that teacher and learner beliefs and expectations have significant influence in language teaching and learning process and, consequently, in the students’ learning outcome. However, in the ...read more
This project is a study of Subject and Theme in a parallel corpus of a Chinese text and its translation into English. The focus in on the relation between subjecthood ...read more
The Centre for Diversity and Learning (Steunpunt Diversiteit & Leren) supported the development of Community Schools in Flanders. This support consisted off (1) Developing a website on Community Schools ( ...read more
In this research project, I investigate the development of complex sentence structures in Swedish as a foreign language. In this longitudinal study, the learners’ use and development of finite subordinate ...read more
The Belgian Dutch language is characterized by an impressive amount of variation. Not only the wide array of dialect variants accounts for this, but also the variation within the substandard ...read more
Between 2010 and 2016, Steven Delarue studied the language use, language perceptions and language ideologies of Flemish teachers in primary and secondary schools. Which (Dutch) language features do teachers use? Is there ...read more
In the past few years, a lot has been published on spoken Dutch in Flanders, and especially on the use of tussentaal, a mixture of dialect and Standard Dutch. Due ...read more
This project fits within the research into the possibly universal polysemy of perception verbs, but concentrates especially on a very complex but neglected element. More particularly, the project aims at ...read more
This project investigates to what extent register influences language use in Dutch translations in the same way as it influences non-translated Dutch. Building on the Dutch Parallel Corpus, we apply ...read more