This project concerns the development of a historical dialect database of the Flemish dialects for studying dialect syntax, based on the Reeks Nederlandse Dialectatlassen (RND). The concerned dataset is part ...read more
Cappadocian is a mixed language which is diachronically descended from Greek but has borrowed heavily from Turkish with which it has been in contact for eight centuries. From ...read more
Cappadocian is a mixed language which is diachronically descended from Greek but has borrowed heavily from Turkish with which it has been in contact for eight centuries. From a typological ...read more
Citizens have never been more involved in matters of scientific research as today and citizen science, where citizens are not viewed as mere objects of study, is booming business. This ...read more
The present study is concerned with adverbial clauses called concessive conditionals from a functional-typological perspective. Based on a convenience sample of ca. 100 language, it investigates the coding strategies used ...read more
Do smart pupils study classical languages (CLs), or does studying CLs make pupils smart? Anglo-Saxon research suggests that Latin pupils surpass their Latin-less peers in L1 ability c.q. English, and ...read more
Language patterns are more or less ‘productive’, depending on their lexical scope. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to compare attested productivity, in present-day language use as well as through history, ...read more
This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks ...read more
Greek spelling was standardised in the fifth century BC, but as the language underwent drastic changes on the phonological level (among other levels) in later periods, spelling and pronunciation grew ...read more
Shell nouns are a nominal category that has first been conceptualized by cognitive linguists such as Schmid (2000). This concept was later translated and further explored by French researchers (Legallois, 2006; ...read more