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 ...
Comparative Research, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven
Dir. P. Swiggers
Research (and teaching) focusing on:
(1) historical, comparative, ciontrastive-typological linguistics of the Romance languages and the two classical languages Greek and Latin
(2) the relation between syntax and information structure in the Romance languages
(3) the historiography and metahistoriography of linguistics
CoHistAL ...
The Linguistics Research Unit, Campus Sint-Andries Antwerpen, is not a separate research unit as such. It refers to those members of the department of linguistics (Onderzoekseenheid Taalkunde / Linguistics Research Unit) that work exclusively or predominantly on the Campus Sint-Andries Antwerpen.
Comparative Research, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Campus Brussels
Research (and teaching) concentrating on French grammar and linguistics, didactics of French as a foreign language, French language proficiency and translation
Direction : Dr. Isabelle Peeters
French, Italian and comparative linguistics
Dir. Piet Desmet
Research (and teaching) in the field of:
(1) French and applied linguistics (esp.language didactics)
(2) computer-assisted language learning
The CoHistAL group at KULAK houses the research team ITEC (Interactive technologies), focusing on domain-specific educational technology
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The Research Group conducts theoretical and descriptive research in the fields of formal and computational linguistics, a.o. with a view to its application in language and speech technology. The central aim is to acquire insight into the complexity of linguistic knowledge by studying the formal properties of the structures and rules that constitute the architecture of language and grammar.
The formal modelling of this ...
The research group Centre for Applied Linguistics (CTL) carries out pluridisciplinary research. Important research domains of CTL are:
- cross-cultural research (mainly verbal and non verbal communication)
- communication needs and problems of specific populations (mainly business-oriented, possibly targeting a specific sector and/or job category)
- semi-autonomous blended learning (effectiveness and ...
Research topics of this unit that is closely connected with the KU Leuven research unit are:
° Literary theory: development of a historical poetics of narrative prose, from the Middle Ages to 1800.
° Autobiography study: modalities and conditions for the I-discourse during the Ancien Régime.
° Study of narrative strategies: ambiguity and ductus obliquus in the narrative-philosophical discourse of the Enlightenment.
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