Many linguists believe that the language of our Indo-European ancestors had a considerable number of verbs which may appear both in intransitive and transitive constructions with no formal change in ...read more
According to the canon, male designers led fashion during the first phase of haute couture (c.1870-c.1970). This project challenges this narrative by giving centre stage to the category of the ...read more
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie project “Intracorporeal Narratives: Reading Internal Biology in Women’s Literature, 1880s-1930s” (INTRARIB) examines British and American women’s fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for its ...read more
Private letters have become the genre of choice for exploring language variation and change in the past. Cross-linguistically, discussion has arisen around the role of epistolary formulae, i.e. prefabricated word ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
This project aims to reveal the connections between linguistic patterns and text-historical developments in a corpus of metrical paratexts in Byzantine manuscripts, situating these connections in the historical context of ...read more
This project will study gender relations and monsters in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
To fully understand the long development of the form-function pairings involved in the Latin tenses, we must view them as part of a system - a system that relates to ...read more