The Corpus of Historical Low German the first treebank of historical Low German (Old Saxon/OS and Middle Low German/MLG). Particularly the syntax of MLG still forms an urgent research desideratum (cf. already Peters ...read more
This PhD project revolves around the phenomenon of Dutch and French change-of-state semi-copulas (i.e. meaning ‘become’), more specifically those that originate from verbs which typically express physical motion (e.g. (ge)raken, komen, ...read more
This PhD deals with the semantics of two major parts of the Bantu verbal system, namely derivation and tense/aspect, from a comparative and diachronic perspective. With respect to derivation, the ...read more
The wider Lower Congo region in Central Africa is home to the Kikongo language cluster (KLC), a vast cluster of regiolects spoken in four neighbouring countries: Angola including Cabinda, the ...read more
Previous studies have indicated the social significance of linguistic variation in Postclassical Greek (III BC – VI AD). The general aim of this project is to gain insight into the nature of ...read more
The project aims at comparing the syntax of Farasiot and Cappadocian, two Asia Minor Greek languages. More specifically, adopting the cartographic approach to generative syntax, I will explore the composition of the ...read more
This project aims to investigate Turkish-Flemish bilingual children’s early language acquisition phases andto explore the trajectories in their early lexical growth which are predictors of their later languagedevelopment. We will ...read more
The ARCHIVE project aims to discover the differences in language use and expression of subjectivity in corporate reporting between varieties of English such as British and American English and ...read more
When it comes to L2 vocabulary learning, both semantic elaboration, i.e. the increased attention to word meaning, and structural elaboration, i.e. the enhanced attention to word form, are important. However, ...read more
This project focusses on the grammatical variation found in Peninsular Spanish in a series of spatial adverbial constructions that are followed by a noun phrase, such as encima (de) ‘on top of’, al ...read more