This research focuses on relevance marking in lectures. On the basis of an analysis of lectures from the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus, the lexicogrammatical devices are identified that ...read more
LOKSTAT is an interdisciplinary database of local and regional statistics on Belgium in the period 1800-1970. The data collections are based on the official censuses of the population, agriculture, trade ...read more
This project aims to contribute to the view that between 1450 and 1650, the (social and cultural) world of performative literature (esp. communal theatre) was at the nexus of a ...read more
In a society that constantly communicates through writing and conversation, clarity of documents is of crucial importance. Technical, governmental, medical and other documents must be understandable. But how clear are ...read more
A study of the obstacles for and strategies of pupils with and without an immigration background in secondary education. Between 2009-2012 this interuniversitary project focused on the educational trajectories of ...read more
This FWO-funded postdoctoral research project (2009-2012) examines how, why, and to what effect the memory of the Holocaust is invoked, mobilized, and represented in literary texts that connect the Nazi ...read more
The primary aim of the project seeked to evaluate in detail how and to which degree the palaeo-landscape determined the prehistoric occupation and exploitation within Sandy Flanders, starting from the ...read more
This dissertation aims at the exploration, description and interpretation of the ways in which Turkish folk music manifests itself musically, contextually and functionally in the transnational context of contemporary Turkey ...read more
There is a general tendency in modern research to defend the perception of an almost “natural” disinclination of nomadic societies to various forms of integration in (sedentary) imperial systems. The ...read more