This project aims to determine the text characteristics of reading materials used in the Flemish EFL and FFL classroom, as well as the influence of these text characteristics on learners' ...read more
This project explores the early modern attitude toward nature through the very popular literary medium of the "hofdicht". In this genre the gardens and country houses of the elite are ...read more
Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages. The same issues are observed ...read more
PhiSci develops a novel framework to understand how philology – the historical study of text and language – once reigned as ‘queen of the sciences.’ This project pioneers a new ...read more
The project investigates the fundamental philosophical and ethical concepts that influenced Kauṭilya and their impact on the social and political realm as reflected in the treatise “Arthaśāstra” (1- 2nd cent. ...read more
This project investigates alternating predicates in Romanian (Ma enerveaza atitudinea lui, lit. me.ACC irritates attitude.the.NOM his vs. Atitudinea lui ma enerveaza, lit. attitude.the.NOM his me.ACC irritates), and their evolution over ...read more
Memory scholars have been criticising the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the 20th century have neither reduced racism nor ...read more
This research project aims at analysing Oromo oral narratives from econarratological perspectives. Econarratlogy is often viewed as a new approach in literary and cultural studies in relation to the other ...read more
This one-year postdoctoral research project investigates how 1930s-1960s children’s periodicals from the Van Passen collection demanded their child readers to interact with their content. The hypothesis is that these periodicals opened to the ...read more
The primary research objective of this project is to use machine learning techniques to enable automatic writing evaluation. Various innovative methods will be researched to detect and provide feedback on writing errors ...read more