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
Transbaso, an inter-university SBO research project, is an innovative valorization and research project for the Flemish education context. That school and study orientation processes are socially biased is well documented. ...read more
In October 2013, I started a sociolinguistic-ethnographic study of pupils’ speech practices in Flanders (Belgium). From November 2013 until December 2014, I immersed myself into the daily school life of ...read more
The Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies is launched as one of the five SHGW (social and behavioral sciences and humanities) research consortia at Ghent University. It operates within the larger ...read more
This project aims at testing whether Latin is configurational, and by this token whether it is possible for a linear string of Latin words to be structurally ambiguous. More specifically, ...read more
This project will analyze the Ancient Greek discourse markers gar, oun and de in three fourth-century texts - two of them argumentative (Basil the Great's Hexaemeron and Gregory of Nazianzen's Invectives against ...read more
The project aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of both explicit and implicit instruction in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In particular, it will focus on possible determinants ...read more
Immigrant children’s poor school results are often linked to their linguistic background. More traditional measurements which compare groups of non-native and native speakers pose serious limitations and result in too ...read more
Alignment and argument structure lies at the heart of all current theoretical models in linguistics, both syntactic models and research within typology. In spite of that, no large-scale comprehensive study ...read more