Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC) will enable medievalists to gain integrated access to two different and completely up-to-date online data collections: (1) Diplomata Belgica, containing descriptions (and often ...read more
This project aims at studying language variation, both in terms of macrovariation (variation between languages and groups of languages) and microvariation (variation between variants of one language). For the work ...read more
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