Despite Dutch's dominant status in Suriname, being the official language of administration since 1876 and the reported primary household language of two thirds of the population (according to the 2012 ...read more
Suetonius’ treatise “On Insults" is the sole surviving ancient work on the subject of verbal abuse, yet it still lacks a proper critical edition, an extensive commentary, a translation in ...read more
This projects fits within the vast body on politeness research, but focuses on one specific politeness strategy in Spanish, namely the speech act of apologizing. Although a large number of ...read more
Regional pronunciations can result from the phonological contact between a standard language and its dialectal substrate. Such pronunciations might be less diversified compared to their substrate dialects, since regional varieties ...read more
This project investigates alternating predicates in Romanian (Ma enerveaza atitudinea lui, lit. me.ACC irritates attitude.the.NOM his vs. Atitudinea lui ma enerveaza, lit. attitude.the.NOM his me.ACC irritates), and their evolution over ...read more
Despite their status as null subject languages, several southern Italian dialects feature expletive subject pronouns. These do not serve as a ‘dummy subject pronoun’ like typical expletives, but rather have ...read more
Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
The main aim of this research project is an intersectional analysis of in/excluding mechanisms in higher education for ethnic minority students and those from socio-economically vulnerable groups. During this project, ...read more
This project investigates the use of African American English (AAE) features by live performing blues artists belonging to different social groups and time periods, and analyzes the social meaning that ...read more