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
The main objective of the Validiv project is to valorise existing linguistic diversity and the linguistic repertoires of pupils (e.g., English, French, immigrant languages) within educational processes in primary education ...read more
This project is a contribution to the ongoing typological debate on alignment patterns in the languages of the world, and in particular how referential hierarchies interact with these patterns. Alignment ...read more
This postdoctoral project focuses on representations of Holocaust memory by authors of the second and third generations, and examines more precisely how the body serves as a vector for memories of ...read more
In line with recent claims that media research should not only chart the professional cultures of “privileged” full-time reporters and hence marginalize other news workers (Wahl-Jorgenson 2009), the project investigates ...read more
This project’s aim is to gain insights into the various linguistic devices of Chilean speakers when addressing each other in conversation. For instance, usted is generally known as an expression ...read more