The project's aim is to deepen our understanding of the syntactic properties of the Latin clause. Assuming the traditional division of the clause in Vorfeld, Mittelfeld and Nachfeld, the focus ...read more
In this project we contribute to one of the major issues in the Generative approach, namely how much the interpretive component of languages – and more specifically the interpretive component referred to ...read more
This dissertation is a detailed study of the reinforced demonstrative pronoun (RDem) of the oldest Northwest Germanic (NWGmc) languages: Runic Norse (RN) súsi, sási, þatsi; Old Norse (ON) sjá/þessi, sjá/þessi, ...read more
Sociolinguistic study of all Greek private letters on papyri and ostraca (approx 4,000-5,000), with focus on (1) the letter formulas and (2) their language. Both topics have a distinctive value ...read more
In certain varieties of Flemish, a possessor need not be structurally adjacent to its possessee. Examples of this are the Flemish External Possessor (FEP) (Haegeman & van Koppen 2012), Flemish ...read more
Recent studies have suggested that teacher and learner beliefs and expectations have significant influence in language teaching and learning process and, consequently, in the students’ learning outcome. However, in the ...read more
This project is a study of Subject and Theme in a parallel corpus of a Chinese text and its translation into English. The focus in on the relation between subjecthood ...read more
The Centre for Diversity and Learning (Steunpunt Diversiteit & Leren) supported the development of Community Schools in Flanders. This support consisted off (1) Developing a website on Community Schools ( ...read more
In this research project, I investigate the development of complex sentence structures in Swedish as a foreign language. In this longitudinal study, the learners’ use and development of finite subordinate ...read more
The Belgian Dutch language is characterized by an impressive amount of variation. Not only the wide array of dialect variants accounts for this, but also the variation within the substandard ...read more