This project investigates the motivations behind the alternation between the Indirect Object Construction (IOC) and Prepositional Object Construction (POC) in present-day German. According to WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures) ...read more
The project aims to explore further the notion of Linguistic Citizenship as a means of understanding and promoting more participation and capturing the experiences, interests and concerns of the disadvantaged ...read more
Schools and teachers around the world are facing a growing diversity and increasing complexity (social inequality, labeling, …). In the past, pupils’ assignments to classrooms and schools have rather fostered ...read more
This project aims to investigate the development of non-canonical case marking of subjects/subject-likes, throughout the history of the Germanic languages, contributing with data from Germanic vernaculars. Lexical semantic verb classes ...read more
This research project would be the first systematic investigation of a crucial aspect of the grammar of Serbian Sign Language (SZJ) – constituent order. It would be a contribution to ...read more
A corpus of spontaneous oral data is collected in the city of Madrid (Spain) for the present and future linguistic research. The corpus collection is realised through audio recordings of ...read more
The research programme is presented by a consortium of 11 linguists, informaticians, digital humanities experts and geographers. It aims at the aggregation and standardization of three comprehensive dialect lexicographic databases, ...read more
The present Collaborative Research Project aims at shedding light upon some very important defining features of past and modern European identity, such as multilingualism,languages in contact and the various types of ...read more
Three different varieties of Greek used to be spoken in Cappadocia (Turkish Kapadokya) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s: Cappadocian, Pharasiot and Lycaonian Greek. From ...read more
According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, œ, ɯ]. These appeared ...read more