Projects

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Agriculture, wage labour and household economies in eighteenth-century Flanders: a regional and integrated analysisa

2018

For over two centuries the organization of work and labour has occupied a central place in narratives of social and economic change in the past. Agricultural labour in the eighteenth ...read more
18th Century
Belgium
Comparative
History
The History of Islamic Courts in Tanzania, ca. 1950-2010

2018

This research project is being undertaken by Shabani Mwakalinga, PhD candidate in the history department. It aims to establish how so-called kadhis' courts functioned in late-colonial and early independent Tanzania, what role ...read more
A parsed corpus of Southern Dutch dialects

2018

Many of the unique syntactic features of Dutch dialects spoken in Flanders only occur in very specific discourse contexts, and therefore cannot be researched using existing databases and linguistic atlases, as those ...read more
Language technology
Linguistics
Function and form of the Spanish nominal vocative: between production, cognition and personality

2018

This project aims to provide a multivariate analysis of the nominal vocative in contemporary Madrilenian Spanish (e.g. Hola, tío ‘Hey, dude’) from a cognitive-functional, usage-based perspective. The formal and functional productivity of the ...read more
PLATOS: Detection of topics, stance and argumentation in a social media corpus

2018

The PLATOS project aims at investigating stance and argument detection on automatically extracted topics in social media text by combining linguistic knowledge and machine learning. In the proposed research, we ...read more
Language technology
Objectification as the forgotton transition in the perspective of anthropogenesis

2017

The implication of man being a species among species is that he has to start of with the same type and quality of cognitive abilities as the next of kin ...read more
A grammar of Vinza, a Great Lakes Bantu language (JD67) of Tanzania

2017

This PhD projects aims at providing a fieldwork-based documentation and description of the grammar of Vinza, a largely undocumented and underscribed Great Lakes Bantu (JD67) of Tanzania, closely related to ...read more
Africa
African languages
Bantu
Bantu language documentation and description
Bantu linguistics
Contemporary
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Tanzania
Because Machiavelli will never die. Tracing colonial power struggles through the presence of Kikongo in Léopoldville/Kinshasa (DRCongo)

2017

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Kenyan literature and political culture

2017

Between 1996 and 2002 I was involved in a postdoctoral project on Angola, studying the life histories of refugees living in Namibia as they recounted how political legitimacy had ...read more
Academic English in the Democratic Republic of Congo, phase 4. Quality, extension, durablity

2017

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