While ancient Greek literary texts have been extensively studied, non-literary sources such as papyri have not received the same attention. This project aims to explore novel approaches to these sources: ...read more
Listening to a language which is not one's own native language can be surprisingly difficult, even for advanced learners. This is especialy so when the speaker has an unfamiliar regional ...read more
The project investigates anaphora resolution—that is, the discourse strategies used to refer to previously mentioned entities through anaphoric devices such as pronouns—in Belgian-Dutch speakers acquiring Italian as a second language ...read more
This project aims to investigate the role of structural priming in translation. This cognitive mechanism has received only little attention in Empirical Translation Studies compared to the field of psycholinguistics. ...read more
The present study aims to explore dimensions of bilingual emotionality and deception via a psycholinguistic, multimodal approach, by assessing the verbal and non-verbal performance of bilingual speakers of Dutch and English. ...read more
This project aims to describe and analyze the use of modal expressions (such as can, must, and maybe) in Swahili, focusing on variation and change across time and space. Spoken ...read more
Over time and space, languages can change fundamentally in their structure (morphosyntax). A key example of such variation is the change between analytic and synthetic morphosyntax. Such variation is clearly ...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
Soon after the release of ChatGPT, the state of the art of generative AI in lexicography was surveyed (cf. de Schryver 2023). If one is to believe that survey, as ...read more
The AICAP project will create a fully annotated digital corpus of inscriptions that were collected by the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) in their 2018-2020 surveys. Funded by the RCU, ...read more