People @ War. A social history of the Second World War and its Remembrance in Belgium is a joint initiative by the State Archives / CegeSoma and Ghent university within ...read more
Formulaic texts constitute a core interest of researchers working at UGent. Within the Greek section, there are two major ongoing research projects about such genres, an ERC-project about ‘everyday’ texts ...read more
The aim of the SerialKey project is to carry out a technological and morphometric study of mass-produced items from the European Final Bronze Age in order to gain a better ...read more
Central Africa’s Congo-Ubangi watershed spans multiple ecozones in the northern margins of the rainforest. It is a major hotbed of linguistic, cultural and human genetic diversity with deep occupation history. ...read more
This research project addresses the inadequately studied phonetic and phonological features of the "entre Congo-Ubangi" sector of Africa's Macro-Sudan Belt, in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo. The "entre Congo-Ubangi", rich ...read more
This doctoral research aims to measure and promote reading skills and reading motivation among Flemish students in a classical language course. A first research goal is to map current reading ...read more
Over the past years, in Europe and the US, various initiatives were launched to #namethe translator on the cover of books. Does increased visibility for translators and translations necessarily lead ...read more
The switching of languages among bilinguals at the clause level is well-documented in code-switching (CS) research. On the other hand, intra-word code-switching (IWCS) has only been sparsely attested in a ...read more
Buddhist Sūtra Literature represents the diverse, discursive genre of scripture held to be canonical by various Buddhist traditions because it was considered to be buddhavacana (words spoken by the Buddha). ...read more
My PhD-project combines a corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highland Bantu, a group of closely related languages from the Great Lakes region of Eastern ...read more