Drawing on a transdisciplinary partnership between communication sciences, sociolinguistics, medical science and sociology, Health, Media & Society looks at how the news media cover elderly-related health issues. Applying a holistic ...read more
The Corpus of Historical Low German the first treebank of historical Low German (Old Saxon/OS and Middle Low German/MLG). Particularly the syntax of MLG still forms an urgent research desideratum (cf. already Peters ...read more
This PhD project revolves around the phenomenon of Dutch and French change-of-state semi-copulas (i.e. meaning ‘become’), more specifically those that originate from verbs which typically express physical motion (e.g. (ge)raken, komen, ...read more
Previous studies have indicated the social significance of linguistic variation in Postclassical Greek (III BC – VI AD). The general aim of this project is to gain insight into the nature of ...read more
The project aims at comparing the syntax of Farasiot and Cappadocian, two Asia Minor Greek languages. More specifically, adopting the cartographic approach to generative syntax, I will explore the composition of the ...read more
The ARCHIVE project aims to discover the differences in language use and expression of subjectivity in corporate reporting between varieties of English such as British and American English and ...read more
This project focusses on the grammatical variation found in Peninsular Spanish in a series of spatial adverbial constructions that are followed by a noun phrase, such as encima (de) ‘on top of’, al ...read more
The project focuses on linguistic variation in the Middle Low German (MLG) dialects, which were spoken and written from about 1250 until 1600 AD. MLG is, certainly considering (theoretical) syntax, ...read more