The project looks at how and why the ratio of labile verbs changes in the history of Chinese, testing the hypothesis that earlier monosyllabic labile verbs were gradually replaced by ...read more
This project aims to investigate the development of Chan hagiographic literature from mid-Tang (ca. 750) to early Northern Song (960–1127) China, concentrating on the emergence of the so-called “lamp records” ...read more
Grammatical relations are central to the scientific study of languages, and yet the indigenous languages spoken in Amazonia often challenge conventional approaches to the notion of grammatical subject and object. ...read more
This project maps the mental representation of pluricentricity in the Dutch language area by empirically studying perceptions of and attitudes towards national grammatical and lexical variation. It will address the ...read more
This project aims to investigate contemporary authorship in comics, examining how the concept is understood and focusing on the way comics are created, shared, and read in a digital environment. ...read more
Across all Abrahamic religions, it has been found that the more religious people are, the more children they have. However, whereas political demographers such as Eric Kaufman have shown that ...read more
This project proposes a comparative study of Spanish and Belgian modernisms and sheds light on networks of intellectual exchange that shaped early twentieth-century literary culture. By examining a corpus of ...read more
This project investigates how pious endowments shaped state-building in the Ottoman Empire between 1450 and 1650. Pious endowments (waqf, singular) were trusts of property devoted to charitable activities that constituted ...read more
“Mourning texts” (āi jìwén 哀祭文) are an important genre of Dūnhuáng 敦煌 literature and are usually regarded as a subgenre of Dūnhuáng "Prayer texts” (yuànwén 願文). More than 230 Mourning texts are ...read more
This project focuses on the modal markers used in the Vinaya texts translated into Chinese in the early 5th century: Four-Part Vinaya, Sarvâstivāda Vinaya, Mahīśāsaka Vinaya and Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya. Vinaya ...read more