This research proposal aims to investigate the diversification of the reconstructed stage of Proto-West Germanic as it appears in the South Germanic, Frisian, and Pre-Old English runic corpora. To this ...read more
By the end of the ninth century CE, vernacular languages had definitively replaced Latin in everyday oral interactions throughout the Carolingian world. However, Latin remained by and large dominant in ...read more
This study examines gendered linguistic practices in Post-Classical Greek (31 BC–600 AD) by analyzing bidirectional texts, i.e. written exchanges that reflect an interaction between sender and recipient, including documentary letters, ...read more
Ancient Greek distinguishes between imperfective and perfective aspect in all moods of the verb, including the imperative mood. Although this is an rare feature typologically, we still only have a ...read more
Even in the past, broad social categories like status played a crucial role in language variation and change. However, language use is also linked to the existence of more locally ...read more
The use of English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education is on the rise both globally and within Flanders, requiring lecturers to impart and students to construe ...read more
The project is concerned with three related issues in contemporary semantics: the role of space in the semantic organisation of language, domain-neutral properties of linguistic meaning, and the hierarchical structure ...read more
This project develops and evaluates machine-learning models for the automated processing of historical Greek and Latin texts. Using transformer-based architectures and existing annotated datasets, the project focuses on tasks such ...read more
Dit onderzoek richt zich op het actualiseren en digitaliseren van een Toolkit voor het breed evalueren van taalcompetentie Nederlands in het lager en secundair onderwijs. Taalcompetentie in het Nederlands is ...read more