Over the past years, in Europe and the US, various initiatives were launched to #namethe translator on the cover of books. Does increased visibility for translators and translations necessarily lead ...read more
The switching of languages among bilinguals at the clause level is well-documented in code-switching (CS) research. On the other hand, intra-word code-switching (IWCS) has only been sparsely attested in a ...read more
Buddhist Sūtra Literature represents the diverse, discursive genre of scripture held to be canonical by various Buddhist traditions because it was considered to be buddhavacana (words spoken by the Buddha). ...read more
My PhD-project combines a corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highland Bantu, a group of closely related languages from the Great Lakes region of Eastern ...read more
While academic vocabulary is a well-explored area in English, the same cannot be said for Spanish. Recognizing the need for exchange students in Social Sciences to master this vocabulary, we ...read more
This project examines accent bias in Flemish secondary and higher education, focusing on biases towards students with foreign and regional accents. Using a combination of methodologies, we study how teachers perceive students’ ...read more
While ancient Greek literary texts have been extensively studied, non-literary sources such as papyri have not received the same attention. This project aims to explore novel approaches to these sources: ...read more
This doctoral project investigates the role of polysemy (the phenomenon where a word has multiple meanings) and word families (groups of words derived from the same root) in the process ...read more
Science is supposed to produce knowledge that is empirically verifiable, reproducible, and allows for the explanation of regularities and the prediction of events in the world. Because of its reliability, ...read more
This project focuses on the question to what degree the functioning of language norms is invidually and culturally determined. This question is key to fully fathom the social and cognitive functioning ...read more