The traditional concept of “subject” is central to the study of all languages. However, indigenous languages spoken in the Amazon often challenge this notion. The research project will investigate various ...read more
The goal of this research project is to understand the socio-cultural and regulatory factors influencing preference of married couples in India suffering from infertility or subfertility regarding means of family formation. ...read more
“Ut pictura poesis”! The comparison is older than Horace but the rivalry between different artistic media continues on the modern stage. The texts this project proposes to analyse embody an ...read more
Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this ...read more
Previous studies have argued that remote interpreting raises new issues with respect to the management of understanding and the organization of turn-taking in spoken interpreter-mediated interactions. However, little is known about how remote ...read more
Since Google decided in 2001 to start using data logs to generate predictions about users’ click-throughs and thus about the relevance of certain advertisements for a user, the collection and ...read more
This historical sociolinguistics project analyses the usage of the unstressed personal pronouns le(s), la(s) and lo(s) in a corpus of 16th-century Andalusian texts characterised by communicative immediacy or conceptional orality ...read more
In the medieval Low Countries, the donating of devotional objects to churches and founding of liturgical ceremonies were directly linked with remembrance. The memories of ancestors remained alive through the church ...read more
This project concerns the practice of excluding women or men from religious sites and religious practices in Japan, and the complex interconnections among religion, traditions, and cultural heritage in the ...read more
There is still a widespread view that Rome’s expanding economic influence over the Mediterranean in the Late Republic (ca. 200-50 BC) triggered a dramatic change in Italy’s wine industry. This ...read more