The Hub Developing in Diversity wants to apply social innovation to increase opportunities for all children, youth and adults in Ghent. We mainly address social inequality in a learning context, by ...read more
The development of the future and conditional tense in Castilian – as in Romance in general – has been universally acknowledged as a typical case of grammaticalisation, whereby the two ...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
The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the ...read more
In linguistic research, opinions vary on how language variation functions and how it is structured. One vision emphasizes that free variation does not exist, that language variation is structured along ...read more
This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The ...read more
The Preferential Partnership (PP) between Ghent University and the University of Toronto brings together the research expertise at both institutions to explore and test interdisciplinary responses to global challenges. This partnership builds ...read more
This project focuses on the intonational differences between diatopically closely related varieties. The case study is represented by the intonation of Salerno Italian, which will be compared with two neighboring ...read more
This project analyses counterfactual constructions in the history of Ancient Greek (from Archaic to Post-Classical). These counterfactuals are largely unstudied and more diverse in types than analysed before in linguistics. ...read more
Almost fifty years ago, a team of scientists sent a wave of excitement throughout the scientific world when they successfully managed to transfer genes from one microbacterium to another, thereby ...read more