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Structured argumentation frameworks for the formalization and evaluation of practical, defeasible reasoning patterns

2018

Logic is the discipline which studies reasoning. Logic has its roots in our argumentative practice,and was developed as a tool for the critical description and evaluation of natural languagearguments. These ...read more
A respeaking and collaborative game-based approach to building a parsed corpus of European Spanish dialects

2018

The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely ...read more
Communication
Language technology
Linguistics
Turning diversity into capacity

2018

Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Belgium
Capacity building
Comparative
Contemporary
Cross-sectoral valorisation
Diversity
Dutch
English
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
North-South exchange
Social inequalities in education
Governance, gender, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania (Phase II: VLIRUOS-IUS MU)

2018

Second phase of the VLIRUOS-IUS with Mzumbe U, now with focus on transversal themes, after successful midterm evaluation in April 2018 (yet still pending formulation week of May 2018). The ...read more
Africa
Area studies
Interculturalism
Two suns in the same sky. Meetings between princes during the renaissance (1400-1550)

2018

Fellowship for Advanced Postdoc Mobility awarded to Dr. Thalia Brero (Université de Genève) by the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique - September 2018-February 2020.read more
History
Nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda. Conceptualizations of an illness-in-the-making

2018

Nodding syndrome (NS) is a poorly understood condition characterized by repetitive involuntary nodding of the head, mental retardation and stunted growth, which mainly affects children aged five to fifteen years ...read more
Transnational migration between Cuba and the Canary Islands. Socio-cultural and linguistic consequences

2018

Generally speaking, the main focus in Cuban migration studies has been on recent emigration streams to the United States, following the fall of the USSR and its consequences for Cuba’s ...read more
Reconstructing the subsistence strategies of the first Bantu speakers south of the Central-African rainforest. A historical-linguistic approach to plant and animal names in West-Coastal Bantu

2018

This PhD project is part of the ERC-CG funded project BantuFirst led by Prof. Koen Bostoen and dedicated to the reconstruction of vocabulary referring to plants and animals in Proto-West-Coastal Bantu, one of ...read more
Linguistics
A typology of the passive voice in Bantu

2018

This research project, a typology of passive constructions in Bantu, involves several fields of linguistics. It focuses on a particular language family, i.e. Bantu, and addresses the question of variation and micro-variation within ...read more
Linguistics
Theoretical underpinnings for a user-friendly, corpus-driven, semi-bilingual, digital dictionary of Swahili

2018

The Bantu language Swahili (or Kiswahili in the language) is the lingua franca of East Africa, spoken by up to 100 million first- and second-language speakers, especially in Tanzania and ...read more
Africa
African languages
Linguistics

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