Although reading comprehension skills are indispensable in the 21st century, many upper elementary students unfortunately struggle with it. Moreover, the reading strategy use and autonomous reading motivation of many upper ...read more
This project investigates the nature of the Latin verb stems, based on the analysis of a corpus consisting of Classical and Late Latin historiographical texts. It examines their basic value: ...read more
This project aims to investigate developmental sequences in the foreign language acquisition of the Hindi case system. A qualitative longitudinal study will be conducted among Hindi foreign language learners in ...read more
During the Post-classical period (III BC – VI AD), Greek underwent fundamental changes in all linguistic domains (phonology/semantics/morphology/syntax): for example, vowel length distinction was lost, vocabulary was extended through derivation ...read more
The main goal of the project is to describe and explain the developmental pattern of subject case inIcelandic as a second language within the context of Processability Theory (PT) (Pienemann,1998; ...read more
In recent years, the study of the use of possessive complements instead of prepositional ones in the adverbial domain, as in encima mío/a vs. encima de mí ‘above me’, has ...read more
This project investigates individual differences among Vietnamese children’s vocabulary knowledge during childhood development from a multifactorial approach to influencing factors and a multidimensional approach to vocabulary knowledge. Its objective is ...read more
This project is looking for the Analytical Resultative Construction ( = ARC), e.g. John hammered the metal flat, in 3 Romance (i.e. French, Spanish and Romanian) and 2 Germanic Languages ...read more
This project aims to analyse the depiction of foster families in Old Norse and Icelandic sagas. This research focuses on relationships between foster families and the emotions that surround the ...read more
In Romanian, a broad range of predicates is used with a subject-like experiencer argument in the dative (e.g. Mi-e somn ‘I feel sleepy’, lit. me.DAT is sleep) or, more rarely, ...read more