The present research has the main objective of studying storage modes regarding pithoi in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean, aiming at better understanding the socio-economic organisation of the three contexts ...read more
The thesis “Black magic bitumen - An archaeometrical approach to 5000 years of bitumen imports in the Persian Gulf” by Thomas Van de Velde assembles and comments on several papers published in ...read more
This project compares some aspects of the syntax of Mandarin and Italian. Within the theoretical framework of the cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, Rizzi 1997, 2001, 2004, Williams 2009, Cinque & ...read more
This GOA-project aims to give new impetus to the current tendency in economic and social research to bring history to bear on contemporary questions of unequal welfare and growth. The ...read more
The aim of this PhD project is to explore the language of tourism within the specific context of computer-mediated communication (CMC). Research will be based on various case studies. ...read more
The Diversity in Education project considers the social inequalities in the Belgian educational system based on ethnicity, socio-economic background, disability and gender. In collaboration with KULeuven and ULB, the project ...read more
My main goal is to contrastively analyze dative (Dat) constructions in European Spanish and Portuguese. While these languages are genetically closely related, they differ in many respects, a.o. in the use of ...read more
Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) in image sequences remains an unsolved problem.The variety of signers, backgrounds, sign executions and signer positions makes the developmentof SLR systems very challenging. Current methods ...read more