Cities such as Paris, Bruges, Ghent and Florence experienced remarkable growth from the High Middle Ages onwards. Recent scholarship indicates that this economic complexity was primarily driven by local and ...read more
My PhD-project combines a corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highland Bantu, a group of closely related languages from the Great Lakes region of Eastern ...read more
The starting point of this research proposal is that shedding light onto the question of whether there could be a markedly Kantian philosophy of language must pass through a thorough ...read more
The Digo subgroup are tone of the groups in the Mijikenda community in Kenya. They primarily inhabit the southern coast and interior regions of Kwale, Kenya. The Digo people possess a ...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
In Latin classes in Flemish secondary schools, reading authentic Roman texts is the main objective. These texts are characterised by a high degree of complexity in terms of vocabulary, morphology ...read more
This project examines the discursive dynamics of constructing multiple identities among applicants for international protection residing in reception centers in Belgium. It explores how individuals express and negotiate their diverse ...read more
Moral science as a relatively unique discipline can be roughly situated in the broad domain of ethics, and more specifically as a particular way of confronting the integration of ‘what ...read more
This project explores how official apologies from governments - especially for colonial-era atrocities shape and reflect historical narratives. It focuses on the Netherlands’ apologies (or lack thereof) for past wrongs ...read more