This project aims to offer a comprehensive overview of structured depositions in settlement contexts during the Iron Age in Northwestern Europe. It seeks to deepen our understanding of the cosmology ...read more
In this project we seek to study human/non-human interaction in the case of Oromo fables told during oral performance, focusing in particular on the interactions between different creatures, entities and forces, how ...read more
This project contributes to a better understanding of the grammar underlying Spanish-English(-Kriol) codeswitching (CS). Its objective is threefold. First, at an empirical level, it provides insight into the way the conflict ...read more
The project aims to develop a linguistically-aware supervised machine learning approach for cross-lingual political argument mining in user-generated text on Facebook, Youtube, Telegram, and other social media. The effort leverages the advances of ...read more
In the nineteenth century, equality before the law was considered the cornerstone of the Enlightenment legal doctrine, and this principle was enshrined in the constitutions of the liberal democracies of ...read more
The Bronze Age in Lower and Upper Mesopotamia was a time of major changes in power, culture, and society. New social and cultural ideas from this ...read more
Michele’s project, titled The role of language and narration in Damaskinos Studitis’ Thisavros, explores and describes the syntax of a corpus of narrative hagiographical sermons from the Thisavros, a homiletic collection composed by Damaskinos ...read more
In the second half of the twentieth century, Dutch authors such as Gerard Reve, Frans Kellendonk, Jan Siebelink and Désanne Van Brederode adopted an idiosyncratic stance toward the Christian tradition. ...read more
This PhD project explores the interplay between travel, translation, heritage and memory through a study of a 13th-century Chinese travel writing of Cambodia—the only surviving eyewitness account of heyday Angkor ...read more
Despite Dutch's dominant status in Suriname, being the official language of administration since 1876 and the reported primary household language of two thirds of the population (according to the 2012 ...read more