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
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