A breakdown of the main British corpora, investigated with a multidisciplinary approach by basing upon palaeography, linguistics and history, with the aim of pinpointing social variations, like phonetic variations ...read more
The project investigates aspects of multilingualism on Facebook, in particular code selection/code switching by language users of Iranian descent in a Belgium. The focus is three-fold: (i) the distributional ...read more
The predominant word order in the Indo-Aryan language Kashmiri, spoken in a mountainous areain the Indian Himalayas, is verb second (V2). This means that the verb always takes the secondposition ...read more
This project compares some aspects of the syntax of Mandarin and Italian. Within the theoretical framework of the cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, Rizzi 1997, 2001, 2004, Williams 2009, Cinque & ...read more
The Diversity in Education project considers the social inequalities in the Belgian educational system based on ethnicity, socio-economic background, disability and gender. In collaboration with KULeuven and ULB, the project ...read more
My main goal is to contrastively analyze dative (Dat) constructions in European Spanish and Portuguese. While these languages are genetically closely related, they differ in many respects, a.o. in the use of ...read more
Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) in image sequences remains an unsolved problem.The variety of signers, backgrounds, sign executions and signer positions makes the developmentof SLR systems very challenging. Current methods ...read more
The research goal of this doctoral dissertation is to unpack the social mechanisms and study the systemic pressures in the orientation process of Newly Arrived Migrant Students (NAMS) in Flemish ...read more