www.dialectloket.be is a multimedia website about language variation in Dutch, developed at the Department of Linguistics (section Dutch) of Ghent University, by the staff of the Dictionary of the ...read more
MMS focused on the reconstruction of the political traditions that organised the interplay between powerful individuals, political institutions and social interactions in 15th-century Egypt and Syria, in the so-called Mamluk ...read more
A pragmatic theory of scientific explanation can be characterized as follows: (1) it starts from the idea that why-questions originate in different epistemic interests, (2) it answers questions about the ...read more
The general aim of this project is to study the structure and dynamics of values and norms from a formal logical point of view. Conflicts between values and/or norms will ...read more
The Kosovo Early Warning System Project is aimed at building the capacity of local analysts to foresee potential crises, and based on its findings to advise on crisis prevention policies. ...read more
LOKSTAT is an interdisciplinary database of local and regional statistics on Belgium in the period 1800-1970. The data collections are based on the official censuses of the population, agriculture, trade ...read more
In a society that constantly communicates through writing and conversation, clarity of documents is of crucial importance. Technical, governmental, medical and other documents must be understandable. But how clear are ...read more
A study of the obstacles for and strategies of pupils with and without an immigration background in secondary education. Between 2009-2012 this interuniversitary project focused on the educational trajectories of ...read more
The aim of the present project was to study the grammar of clitic pronouns in (Late) Medieval Greek with particular attention to text-pragmatic, geographic and diachronic variation. Its initial focus ...read more