This PhD addresses the phenomenon of similarity in Roman Imperial cultural expressions in Asia Minor through a detailed analysis of the thus far neglected touchstone of the region’s architectural decoration. ...read more
Due to current political and demographic developments, multilingual psychotherapy for refugees and migrants is becoming increasingly relevant. Interpreters are often indispensable in bridging the language barrier between patient and therapist. ...read more
Displays of Desire aims to gain insight into how early modern Dutch comedies represent the idea of consumption and desire through theatrical imagination. Doing so, the project not only highlights ...read more
Past vegetation evolution is generally studied using pollen analyses from lake sediments or peat bogs. Such sedimentary archives dating to the middle and late Holocene period are largely missing in ...read more
Although gender-neutral 3rd person pronouns (3PPs) are increasingly appearing in media discourse, studies of how readers interpret and evaluate them are currently still scarce. This project therefore aims at conducting ...read more
This project aims to improve machine translation (MT) accuracy and efficiency by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with retrieval-based MT techniques and synthetic data augmentation. The approach involves generating synthetic ...read more
Grammatical relations are central to the scientific study of languages, and yet the indigenous languages spoken in Amazonia often challenge conventional approaches to the notion of grammatical subject and object. ...read more
The project looks at how and why the ratio of labile verbs changes in the history of Chinese, testing the hypothesis that earlier monosyllabic labile verbs were gradually replaced by ...read more
The relation between postwar art and technology is widely considered in terms of progress, optimism, and prosperity. This project sets forth to re-examine postwar art and technology in subtler and ...read more
What do we know about Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976)? Perusing the publications dedicated to the artist, including more than twenty separate museum monographs, the answer would seem to be both a ...read more