The aim of this project is to investigate the evolution of the gerund and the present participle from Late Latin to Medieval French. As a result of phonetic evolutions these ...read more
The aim of this project entitled ‘The internal syntax of QPs’, is to look inside quantifiers (Qs) and to identify the building blocks they are composed of. At first sight, ...read more
CROSS is an interuniversity research group (UGent-VUB) which aims at investigating phenomena of code-switching and code-mixing as expressions of the hybrid identity of Latin-American immigrant authors in the United States. ...read more
This PhD project is situated within the field of Romance comparative Linguistics and studies the behavior of verbs of putting, which are commonly used to express placement movements in space. ...read more
The project Poetry from the margins. Literary, linguistic, philological and cultural-historical analysis of a new corpus of Byzantine book epigrams (800-1453)bid builds on a previous project of the same team, funded ...read more
The goal of this project is to investigate the underexplored Byzantine meter, within the framework of the modern linguistic theory of information structure, using the Ghent corpus of Byzantine book ...read more
The project focuses on contact-related grammatical pattern changes in Belgian and NetherlandicDutch during two different stages in their recent history: (i) 19th century Belgian Dutch, which washeavily exposed to French, ...read more
Community Schools, extended Schools, full service schools: all these labels refer to schools that open up to the world and where collaboration between different partners, linked to the lives of ...read more
The MulAE-project evaluates whether monolingual testing practice can provide a complete picture of multilingual (ML) pupils’ abilities in content-related areas (e.g. science). In traditional tests, these pupils receive the test items ...read more