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Afrikaans - Ghent Centre for Afrikaans and the Study of South Africa

The aim of the Ghent centre for Afrikaans and the study of South Africa is to coordinate the research activities with regard to linguistics and literature of the Afrikaans language. It brings together all researchers of the faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Ghent University with an interest...read more
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Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
België
Comparatief
Engels
Gebarentaal
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Geschiedenis
Hedendaags
Iconografie en beeldanalyse
Interculturaliteit
Kunst
Kwantitatief
Literatuurwetenschap
Nederlands
Surveys en enquêtering
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Taaltechnologie
Theater- en podiumkunsten
Veldonderzoek
West-Europa
BOCULT - Centre for Research on Body Cultures in Motion

Since the late 1980s the ‘body’ is a central object of research in cultural studies. In the Department of Languages and Cultures several researchers are dealing with questions related to “performing bodies”. The concept of performing bodies next to ‘figurations’ focuses on historical and...read more
Afrikaanse talen
Arabisch
Chinees
Comparatief
Duits
Engels
Ethiek en moraal
Frans
Gender
Geschiedenis
Iconografie en beeldanalyse
Interculturaliteit
Japans
Kunst
Nederlands
Oosterse talen
Regiostudies
Religie
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Theater- en podiumkunsten
Veldonderzoek
Wijsbegeerte en filosofie
DiaLing - Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics

The research group DiaLing clusters scholars who conduct research in the field of historical and diatopic linguistics, and gives as such visibility to these fields of study. The research conducted by DiaLing contributes to these disciplines in the following ways:

(i) language description...read more
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Afrikaanse talen
Cartography
Cognitive linguistics
Communicatie
Comparatief
Constructionalization
Construction grammar
Corpus construction
Diachronic linguistics
Diachrony
Dialect contact
Dialect grammar
Dialectology
Dialect syntax
Diatopic linguistics
Discourse
Duits
Dynamic syntax
Endangered languages
Engels
Experimental syntax
Formal grammar
Formal syntax
Frans
Functional linguistics
Generative syntax
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Geschiedenis
Grammar
Grammaticalization
Grieks
Hedendaags
Historical grammar
Historical linguistics
Historical sociolinguistics
Historical syntax
Information structure
Interculturaliteit
Italiaans
Kwantitatief
Language change
Language contact
Language death
Language maintenance
Late Oudheid
Latijn
Lexicography
Lexicon
Microvariation
Middeleeuwen
Morphology
Nanosyntax
Nederlands
Oost-Europese talen
Oosterse talen
Oudheid
Portugees
Pragmatics
Quantitative linguistics
Roemeens
Russisch
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Spaans
Surveys en enquêtering
Syntax
Syntax-discourse interface
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Taaltechnologie
Turks
Typology
Veldonderzoek
Word order
Zweeds
EQTIS - Empirical and Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies
Our research activities are sub-divided in three research strands:

Corpus-Based Translation Studies
We use parallel and comparable corpora to study language use and language variation in different translated genres, which are translated from different source
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Communicatie
Comparatief
Duits
Engels
Frans
Hedendaags
Interculturaliteit
Kwantitatief
Nederlands
Spaans
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Vertaalkunde
GLIMS - Ghent University Research Group on Linguistic Meaning & Structure

The research conducted in GLIMS deals with ‘grammar’ in the broad sense of the term, that is to say (morpho)syntax and semantics, including both the interface with the lexicon (and lexical morphology) and with discourse. Most of our work is related to the following fields of interest: the...read more
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Duits
Engels
Fins
Frans
Grieks
Italiaans
Latijn
Nederlands
Noors
Portugees
Roemeens
Spaans
Taalkunde
Zweeds
HPIMS - Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies

The Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (HPIMS) brings together all scholars of Ghent University working on the Middle Ages or using data of Medieval Studies, regardless of their specific disciplines, sub-periods or research topics. The HPIMS members mainly come from the fields of...read more
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Afrika
Archeologie
Azië
België
Centraal-Europa
Comparatief
Duits
Engels
Frans
Gender
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Geschiedenis
Grieks
Iconografie en beeldanalyse
Interculturaliteit
Italiaans
Kunst
Kwantitatief
Late Oudheid
Latijn
Literatuurwetenschap
Middeleeuwen
Nabije Oosten
Nederlands
Noord-Europa
Oost-Europa
Oost-Europese talen
Portugees
Religie
Spaans
Surveys en enquêtering
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Turks
Veldonderzoek
Verre Oosten
West-Europa
Zuid-Europa
IEMH - Institute for Early Modern History

The Institute for Early Modern History (IEMH) is a research alliance linking historians of the Early Modern Period from Ghent University with those from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel by regulary organizing scientific gatherings and acting as a forum for the Ph.D. students of Early...read more
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Azië
België
Comparatief
Duits
Engels
Frans
Geschiedenis
Iconografie en beeldanalyse
Kwantitatief
Latijn
Nederlands
Spaans
Surveys en enquêtering
Taal- en tekstanalyse
West-Europa
IPEM - Instituut voor Psychoacustica en Elektronische Muziek

IPEM is the research center of the Musicology Section of the Department of Art, Music and Theater Studies at Ghent University. IPEM provides a scientific basis for the cultural and creative sector, in casu music and performance arts, and does pioneering research work on the relationship between...read more
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Engels
Kwantitatief
Muziek
Nederlands
Surveys en enquêtering
Veldonderzoek
KB45 - Kunst in België sinds 1945 / Art in Belgium since 1945

KB45 (Kunst in België sinds 1945 / Art in Belgium since 1945) is a multidisciplinary research group established in 2019 at Ghent University within the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning on the one hand and the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies on the other...read more
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Art in Belgium
België
Contemporary Art History
Duits
Engels
Exhibition Histories
Frans
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Geschiedenis
Hedendaags
Historiography
Iconografie en beeldanalyse
Institutional Histories
Kunst
Nederlands
Veldonderzoek
West-Europa
Zuid-Amerika
MULTIPLES - Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society

MULTIPLES is concerned with the study of language and discourse as aspects of social life. It engages with the applied and educational dimensions of this field and does so with particular reference to contemporary multilingualism. We connect researchers with backgrounds in various linguistic...read more
Communicatie
Didactiek
Duits
Engels
Frans
Hedendaags
Hindi
Interculturaliteit
Interpreting
Italiaans
Language acquisition
Language and education
Media
Multilingualism
Nederlands
Russisch
Sociolinguistics
Spaans
Taalkunde
Turks
Vertaalkunde