The Department of Linguistics brings together the linguistic researchers in the Faculty of Arts. Next to studies of a generalor theoretical linguistic nature, research is mainly oriented towards Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and the classical languages. In disciplinary terms, all fields of linguistics are represented: grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic linguistics and variational linguistics, and various kinds ...
BIAL (Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics) is a research group within the Applied Linguistics Department of the VUB that conducts applied linguistic research with a focus on transculturalism. We define transculturalism as a form of cultural hybridity which emerges when different cultural elements interact and eventually integrate with each other. Since Brussels is a natural melting pot of cultures, the emphasis on transculturalism is ...
Campus Brussels works closely with the research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variationist Linguistics (QLVL), of Leuven. QLVL is a research group at the University of Leuven that focuses on empirical, corpus-linguistic studies of language variation, with a specific emphasis on lexical variation.
Research topics are: linguistics, semantics and lexical variation.
Research Quantitative Lexicology and Variation (QLVL), QLVL is a research group at the University of Leuven that focuses on empirical, corpus-linguistic studies of language variation, with a specific emphasis on lexical variation.
applied linguistics
The research group gathers junior and senior researchers with a wide variety of interests and expertise around the teaching and critical study of English literature across periods, genres, and geographical areas.Our research is mainly situated in the following four areas: 19th-Century Literature & Culture, Modernist Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Irish Literature. For more details, see ...