This project’s aim is to gain insights into the various linguistic devices of Chilean speakers when addressing each other in conversation. For instance, usted is generally known as an expression ...read more
The goal of this study is to examine whether there is passive voice in Ancient Chinese by analyzing the origin and development of all the constructions conventionally referred to as ...read more
In this project we contribute to one of the major issues in the Generative approach, namely how much the interpretive component of languages – and more specifically the interpretive component referred to ...read more
In certain varieties of Flemish, a possessor need not be structurally adjacent to its possessee. Examples of this are the Flemish External Possessor (FEP) (Haegeman & van Koppen 2012), Flemish ...read more
The aim of the IATE-CvT project is to contribute to specific domains of the EU’s multilingual term base IATE on the basis of in-depth research into restricted sets of ...read more
Recent studies have suggested that teacher and learner beliefs and expectations have significant influence in language teaching and learning process and, consequently, in the students’ learning outcome. However, in the ...read more
Between 2010 and 2016, Steven Delarue studied the language use, language perceptions and language ideologies of Flemish teachers in primary and secondary schools. Which (Dutch) language features do teachers use? Is there ...read more
In the past few years, a lot has been published on spoken Dutch in Flanders, and especially on the use of tussentaal, a mixture of dialect and Standard Dutch. Due ...read more
This project fits within the research into the possibly universal polysemy of perception verbs, but concentrates especially on a very complex but neglected element. More particularly, the project aims at ...read more
During the last 20 years writing research has focused explicitly on the analysis of writing processes. More recently, logging programs (like Inputlog) enabled researchers to record process data (e.g. keystrokes ...read more