Historiography begins with narrations of the ancient Greek historians Herodotos and Thucydides on the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, and subsequent historians tend to share their preoccupation with great actors of ...read more
The research project addresses the interrelated areas of diachronic and synchronic variation in constructional semantics, through an extensive corpus-based investigation of the semantic properties of Dutch argument structure constructions across diachronic, regional, ...read more
The project traced the historical development of the ‘conditional’ use of modal verbs in the West Germanic (WG) languages, seen in 'If there should be a problem/Should there be a problem, don’t ...read more
Explicitation and implicitation are two translatological concepts that translation researchers have been investigating ever since their first mention by Vinay/Darbelnet (1958/1977), but especially after Blum-Kulka (1986) formulated her explicitation ...read more
In recent years, scholarship has re-emphasised the importance of understanding Byzantine historiography as literature. Important as this is, it suggest that modern concepts, such as authorship, can be applied to ...read more
Investigation of the language of the later Medieval Greek (12th-16th centuries) vernacular romances composed in the decapentasyllabioc metre of the politikos stichos within the modern framework of information structure (most ...read more
The starting point of the research was the construction illustrated in (1), reported for West Flemish in Haegeman and Van Koppen (2012) and so far not described in the literature. ...read more
This project aims to explore the motivations behind the case alternation between accusative (ACC) and dative (DAT) after two-way prepositions in present-day German (PDG). Special attention goes to those instances ...read more