This project investigates to what extent register influences language use in Dutch translations in the same way as it influences non-translated Dutch. Building on the Dutch Parallel Corpus, we apply ...read more
The SubTLe project investigates two different methodologies for sentiment mining of online text types (blogs, chats, tweets, etc.). We contrast the traditional lexicon-based approach with a corpus-based approach based on ...read more
Prototypically, traditional approaches to the semantic description of verbal arguments assign a special participant role to each argument in relation to the verb, each of which have typical – though ...read more
The complexity of reading in a non-native language makes such a task almost insurmountable. Set against the multilingual educational background of Mozambique, this study explores the complexity of FL (Foreign ...read more
The project is situated in the field of phonology and aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how childrenacquire the sound system of a second language (L2). While previous research ...read more
Born from the Arnamagnæan Summer School in Manuscript Studies, 6 members of the Master Class of 2010 decided to work together on a project they entitled 'Personent Hodie Text Edition ...read more
Byzantine book epigrams do not currently receive the attention from the scholarly world that they certainly deserve. This is due to several reasons. The corpus of epigrams presents itself currently ...read more
This project aims at studying language variation, both in terms of macrovariation (variation between languages and groups of languages) and microvariation (variation between variants of one language). For the work ...read more
www.dialectloket.be is a multimedia website about language variation in Dutch, developed at the Department of Linguistics (section Dutch) of Ghent University, by the staff of the Dictionary of the ...read more