Due to current political and demographic developments, multilingual psychotherapy for refugees and migrants is becoming increasingly relevant. Interpreters are often indispensable in bridging the language barrier between patient and therapist. ...read more
OTTOWAQF will examine how religious foundations shaped state building in the Ottoman Empire during a crucial period between 1450 and 1650. Religious foundations controlled vast swaths of land and property ...read more
The principal aim of this research project is to compare the predominant concepts of the Ottoman and Burgundian political discourse in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Even though reciprocal ...read more
According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, œ, ɯ]. These appeared ...read more
Romeyka is an endangered Greek minority language spoken in north-eastern Turkey. Several hundred years of language contact with Turkish led to interesting morphosyntactic contact phenomena. Since we still lack a ...read more
The MulAE-project evaluates whether monolingual testing practice can provide a complete picture of multilingual (ML) pupils’ abilities in content-related areas (e.g. science). In traditional tests, these pupils receive the test items ...read more
The aim of the project was to design and develop an interactive app to facilitate the communication between service providers of Kind & Gezin (Child & Family), the organization that ...read more
As previous studies have shown, in order to overcome the language barriers and enable the communication between general practitioners and migrant patients, the employment of professional community interpreters in the ...read more
The Turkish Language Reform, following the Alphabet Reform, in the 1930s created a new - more purified - variant of Turkish. As a result, present-day readers of Turkish are confronted ...read more
This PhD project, based at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Program for Slavic and East European Studies at Ghent University, examines the Kosova students’ movements between 1968 and 1999. ...read more