The city of Rome, in Late Antiquity, lost much of its privileged status to the new Eastern capital of Constantinople as well as to competing imperial residences in the West ...read more
This project analyses counterfactual constructions in the history of Ancient Greek (from 750BCE to 100CE). These counterfactuals are largely unstudied and more diverse in types than analysed before in linguistics. ...read more
The ever-increasing availability of information, made possible by the Internet today, transforms the way people perceive and acquire knowledge. This project maps the effects of this epistemological shift in the ...read more
The project "Remember Africa?” uses different types of contemporary memorial projects and narratives of individual Jains in the UK to address the experience of twice-migration and its impact upon religious ...read more
This project aims to analyse language ideologies in key scientific discourses on Content & Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), i.e. the European model for immersion-teaching actively promoted by the European Union ...read more
Relativization strategies in the Archaic and Classical Greek period have received substantial scholarly attention, but few work has been dedicated to relative clauses in Post-Classical Greek and in documentary texts. ...read more
What makes an online review impolite? And how do we emotionally respond to online (im)politeness? In this postdoc project, we investigate people’s reactions to different degrees of (im)politeness in reviews and ...read more
The coverage of migration in the media is considered partly to blame for the Brexit vote. While all published studies focus on broadsheets and tabloids, our project will involve content ...read more
This project explores how prosody interacts with syntactic structure at different stages of an ongoing syntactic change. Innovatively, it will do so using experimental methods, studying the interaction of syntax and prosody. ...read more
This project continues the strategic collaboration between researchers from Ghent and Kent on projects researching prosodic cues to syntactic reanalysis by experimentally tracking language change in progress. ...read more