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
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
This project proposes an interdisciplinary research in the fields of children’s literature studies and translation studies. It aims to get a better understanding of multimodal children’s literature in translation and ...read more
Since the Great Recession of 2007, research on the causes of economic inequality has been at the centre of both societal and academic debates, also among historians. Whereas most scholars ...read more
The concept of collective government in the Middle Ages is associated primarily with urban contexts, while lords are usually understood as exercising sole power over their individual rural domains. However, ...read more
This doctoral research project focuses on the translation and reception of the Nouveau Roman in Spain during Francoism. On the one hand, it studies the effects of Francoist censorship on ...read more
Belgian politicians have been debating the societal importance of notaries for several years. Nowadays, there are increasing calls for liberalising the notarial profession in its current form. Besides a reform ...read more
Shell nouns are a nominal category that has first been conceptualized by cognitive linguists such as Schmid (2000). This concept was later translated and further explored by French researchers (Legallois, 2006; ...read more
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to work on ‘directed evolution’. The latter is not a new theory or discovery, but a technique to let natural selection shape ...read more