Lusoga (JE16) is a largely undocumented Great Lakes Bantu language and only primers and basic grammatical descriptions were available at the beginning of this study. At the time, the existing ...read more
Prototypically, traditional approaches to the semantic description of verbal arguments assign a special participant role to each argument in relation to the verb, each of which have typical – though ...read more
The complexity of reading in a non-native language makes such a task almost insurmountable. Set against the multilingual educational background of Mozambique, this study explores the complexity of FL (Foreign ...read more
The project is situated in the field of phonology and aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how childrenacquire the sound system of a second language (L2). While previous research ...read more
This project aims at studying language variation, both in terms of macrovariation (variation between languages and groups of languages) and microvariation (variation between variants of one language). For the work ...read more
www.dialectloket.be is a multimedia website about language variation in Dutch, developed at the Department of Linguistics (section Dutch) of Ghent University, by the staff of the Dictionary of the ...read more
The present PhD project aims at refining current knowledge about the driving forces in Dutch constituent ordering of non-predicate prepositional phrases (PPs) as well as re-evaluating the common assumption in ...read more
This dissertation investigates the language development of young deaf children in Flanders in both spoken Dutch and Flemish Sign Language or VGT. In the current context of cochlear implantation this ...read more
The overall goal of this doctoral study is to investigate the different types of modal markers in Kirundi, to describe their syntactic properties and semantic values, and to establish their ...read more