My investigation combines Classical Philology and historical linguistics. In several Indo-European languages, such as Greek, Armenian, Phrygian, Sanskrit and Iranian, the past tense form was built not only by using ...read more
After the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE, Greek becomes the main written language in Egypt until the seventh century CE. Many of the changes between Classical ...read more
This project aims to study the functional range and the alternating uses of four types of presentational constructions (prosodic inversion, syntactic inversion, syntactic inversion with filler insertion and syntactic split) in ...read more
Through multifactorial corpus investigations in original and translated Dutch, the project addresses the effects of register variation on grammatical choices, focusing on alternations where one of the alternatives is ...read more
This project focuses on EFL in Ethiopian secondary schools, where English is the medium of instruction. It offers: (1) an analysis of teachers’ beliefs and practices with regard to grammar ...read more
Romeyka is an endangered Greek minority language spoken in north-eastern Turkey. Several hundred years of language contact with Turkish led to interesting morphosyntactic contact phenomena. Since we still lack a ...read more
In dit thema willen we diepgaand onderzoek uitvoeren rond evaluatiebeleid en diversiteit. Onder evaluatiebeleid wordt zowel het formatieve als het summatieve niveau begrepen. De plaats van het dagdagelijkse evalueren binnen ...read more
In dit thema willen we diepgaand onderzoek uitvoeren rond evaluatiebeleid en diversiteit. Onder evaluatiebeleid wordt zowel het formatieve als het summatieve niveau begrepen. De plaats van het dagdagelijkse evalueren binnen ...read more
The project focuses on shifts in the productivity of two clusters of constructions in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch over the last two centuries. The linguistic phenomena under investigation are: (i) ...read more
All West Germanic languages have undergone Jespersen’s cycle, the directional development of the expression of negation by which an original preverbal negation particle (e.g. Old English ne) – stage I ...read more