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Research groups

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  • Afrikaans - Ghent Centre for Afrikaans and the Study of South Africa

    The aim of the Ghent centre for Afrikaans and the study of South Africa is to coordinate the research activities with regard to linguistics and literature of the Afrikaans language. It brings together all researchers of the faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Ghent University with an interest...read more

    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Quantitative
    • Sign language
    • Surveys
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Western Europe

  • ARCHAEO - Archaeology

    The research group Archaeology is a very active player in scientific research, which is driven by various internal research units. The main five units are (1) Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology of NW Europe, (2) Mediterranean Archaeology, (3) Historical Archaeology of NW Europe, (4) Near Eastern...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Middle East
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Religion
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies

    A transdisciplinary approach to the past and present of Bantu languages, Bantu speech communities and their (im)material worlds, both in Africa and in the diaspora. The research starts from the data-driven study of language and/or material culture and is combined — whenever and wherever possible...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Archaeology
    • Art
    • Art history
    • Bantu linguistics
    • Comparative
    • Comparative linguistics
    • Contemporary
    • Corpus linguistics
    • Dialectology
    • Economic anthropology
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Historical anthropology
    • Historical linguistics
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language documentation and description
    • Language technology
    • Lexicography
    • Linguistics
    • Material culture studies
    • Quantitative
    • Surveys
    • Transdisciplinary studies

  • BOCULT - Centre for Research on Body Cultures in Motion

    Since the late 1980s the ‘body’ is a central object of research in cultural studies. In the Department of Languages and Cultures several researchers are dealing with questions related to “performing bodies”. The concept of performing bodies next to ‘figurations’ focuses on historical and...read more

    • African languages
    • Arabic
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Chinese
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • French
    • Gender
    • German
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Japanese
    • Language and text analysis
    • Oriental languages
    • Philosophy
    • Religion
    • Theatre and performing arts

  • CLIV - Centrum voor Literatuur in vertaling

    The Alliance Research Centre for Literature in Translation (Centrum voor Literatuur in Vertaling, CLIV) was founded by Ghent University and the VUB in 2014, when two research groups on literary translation joined forces: the Ghent University/University College Ghent Association research...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Interculturality
    • Intermediality
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Literary studies
    • Middle Ages
    • Multilingualism
    • Surveys
    • Translation
    • Translation Studies
    • Translation studies

  • CRCG - Centre for Research on Culture and Gender

    The Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, supports research and scholarly exchange on questions of identity, difference and diversity in a...read more

    • Africa
    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Eastern Europe
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Middle East
    • North America
    • Religion
    • Western Europe

  • DiaLing - Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics

    The research group DiaLing clusters scholars who conduct research in the field of historical and diatopic linguistics, and gives as such visibility to these fields of study. The research conducted by DiaLing contributes to these disciplines in the following ways:

    (i) language description...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • African languages
    • Antiquity
    • Cartography
    • Cognitive linguistics
    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Constructionalization
    • Construction grammar
    • Contemporary
    • Corpus construction
    • Diachronic linguistics
    • Diachrony
    • Dialect contact
    • Dialect grammar
    • Dialectology
    • Dialect syntax
    • Diatopic linguistics
    • Discourse
    • Dutch
    • Dynamic syntax
    • Eastern European languages
    • Endangered languages
    • English
    • Experimental syntax
    • Field research
    • Formal grammar
    • Formal syntax
    • French
    • Functional linguistics
    • Generative syntax
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Grammar
    • Grammaticalization
    • Greek
    • Historical grammar
    • Historical linguistics
    • Historical sociolinguistics
    • Historical syntax
    • History
    • Information structure
    • Interculturalism
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language change
    • Language contact
    • Language death
    • Language maintenance
    • Language technology
    • Late Antiquity
    • Latin
    • Lexicography
    • Lexicon
    • Linguistics
    • Microvariation
    • Middle Ages
    • Morphology
    • Nanosyntax
    • Oriental languages
    • Portuguese
    • Pragmatics
    • Quantitative
    • Quantitative linguistics
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Semantics
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Spanish
    • Surveys
    • Swedish
    • Syntax
    • Syntax-discourse interface
    • Turkish
    • Typology
    • Word order

  • EACP - East Asian Culture in Perspective: Identity, Historical Consciousness, Modernity

    The last decades of global experience have witnessed the domination of two apparently contradictory tendencies: on the one hand, a process of globalization and concentration of capital on a new, very abstract level far beyond immediate experience; on the other, the decentralization of production...read more

    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Chinese
    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Ethics and morality
    • Far East
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Japanese
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Philosophy
    • Religion

  • ECC - Economies, Comparisons, Connections

    The research group Economies, Comparisons, Connections (ECC) brings together historians and social scientists who study the interaction of historical processes at varying geographical, social, political, environmental and economic scales. The focus on Economies, Comparisons and...read more

    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Business history
    • Central Europe
    • Colonial history
    • Comparative
    • Eastern Europe
    • Economic history
    • Environmental history
    • Global studies
    • Historical geography
    • History
    • Maritime history
    • Middle East
    • Migration history
    • Northern Europe
    • Rural history
    • Social history
    • South America
    • Southern Europe
    • Western Europe

  • EQTIS - Empirical and Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies

    Our research activities are sub-divided in three research strands:

    • Corpus-Based Translation Studies
      We use parallel and comparable corpora to study language use and language variation in different translated genres, which are translated from different source
      • ...read more
    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Quantitative
    • Spanish
    • Translation Studies