This project aims to analyse the depiction of foster families in Old Norse and Icelandic sagas. This research focuses on relationships between foster families and the emotions that surround the ...read more
This project is looking for the Resultative Construction (= RC), e.g. John hammered the metal flat, in 2 Romance (i.e. French, Spanish) and 2 Germanic Languages (i.e. English and Dutch). ...read more
In Romanian, a broad range of predicates is used with a subject-like experiencer argument in the dative (e.g. Mi-e somn ‘I feel sleepy’, lit. me.DAT is sleep) or, more rarely, ...read more
My research consists of an exhaustive corpus analysis of Spanish deverbal nominalizations, with a special focus on State Nominalizations, such as preocupación [preoccupation] and interés [interest]. Whereas traditional research has ...read more
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