Art historians continually use concepts of art, i.e., they continually distinguish between art and non-art. Before initiating their art historical inquiries, they have to decide which items are eligible for ...read more
The status of Life – the place of living beings in the universe, the question of how philosophy and natural science should approach these beings – has preoccupied philosophers from ...read more
In 1877 the Austro-Hungarian Hugó Meltzl warned his colleagues: “As every unbiased man of letters knows, modern literary history, as generally practiced today, is nothing but an ancillahistoriae politicae ...read more
The predominant word order in the Indo-Aryan language Kashmiri, spoken in a mountainous areain the Indian Himalayas, is verb second (V2). This means that the verb always takes the secondposition ...read more
This project compares some aspects of the syntax of Mandarin and Italian. Within the theoretical framework of the cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, Rizzi 1997, 2001, 2004, Williams 2009, Cinque & ...read more
The Diversity in Education project considers the social inequalities in the Belgian educational system based on ethnicity, socio-economic background, disability and gender. In collaboration with KULeuven and ULB, the project ...read more
My main goal is to contrastively analyze dative (Dat) constructions in European Spanish and Portuguese. While these languages are genetically closely related, they differ in many respects, a.o. in the use of ...read more
The project aims at producing the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the adoption of Arabic as historiographical language by Christians under Islamic rule around the 9th-11th centuries, through ...read more
This project is situated at the intersection of periodical studies and literary radio studies. With the introduction of sound studies into literary studies, radio has become an important focal point ...read more