Places and spaces designed for social dance often had an ephemeral quality between 1756 - 1830 in the Southern Netherlands and the Pays de Liège. Before 1800 real dedicated ballrooms ...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
This research focuses on a selection of Marcel Broodthaers' artworks, photographs, and texts created between 1957 and 1970—from the moment he realized his first photographs of Brussels to the year ...read more
The aim of the research is to trace the history of the concept of the “Second Sophistic”. This label is broadly assigned to an intellectual movement involving Greek-speaking intellectuals in ...read more
A plethora of previous research has shown early beneficial effects of bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) on cognitive control (CC) (e.g. Crivello et al., 2016), working memory (WM), and ...read more
Pseudotranslations are an interesting occurrence within literature and represent a particular problem for literary and translation studies- as original works that present themselves as, and thus perform as, translations, they ...read more
Left dislocation (LD) patterns consist of a topic and a comment which says something about the topic. The comment usually contains a resumptive element ('they' in (1), referring to 'the ...read more
The 5th century marks the transition from the Roman to the Medieval world, an essential turning point in European history. However, when we try to identify it in the archaeological ...read more
On 4 May 1928 the Centre for Fine Arts (‘Palais des Beaux-Arts’) in Brussels officially opened its doors. In the past, 4 May 1928 has invariably been taken to be ...read more
Many linguists believe that the language of our Indo-European ancestors had a considerable number of verbs which may appear both in intransitive and transitive constructions with no formal change in ...read more