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Researcher
Rik Vosters
- Keywords:Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences), Fine arts (incl. archaeology)
- Disciplines:Contact linguistics, Dutch language, Corpus linguistics, Dialectology, Diachronic linguistics, History and historiography of linguistics, Historical linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Affiliations
- Brussels Centre for Language Studies (Research group)
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From1 Jan 2023 → Today - Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (Research group)
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From17 Mar 2021 → Today - Brussels Platform for Digital Humanities (Research group)
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From23 May 2018 → Today - Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics (Research group)
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From5 Nov 2014 → Today - Brussels Centre for Language Studies (Research group)
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From1 Jan 2025 → Today - Linguistics and Literary Studies (Department)
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From1 Jan 2025 → Today - Linguistics and Literary Studies (Department)
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From1 Jan 2024 → 31 Dec 2024 - Brussels Centre for Language Studies (Research group)
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From1 Jan 2024 → 31 Dec 2024 - Brussels Centre for Language Studies (Research group)
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From28 Sep 2022 → Today - Linguistics and Literary Studies (Department)
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From1 Jun 2021 → 31 Dec 2024 - Linguistics and Literary Studies (Department)
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From1 Oct 2020 → 30 Sep 2022 - Linguistics and Literary Studies (Department)
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From8 Apr 2019 → 31 May 2021 - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Faculty)
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From22 Jun 2017 → 7 Sep 2017 - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Faculty)
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From22 Jun 2017 → 7 Sep 2017 - Linguistics and Literary Studies (Department)
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From1 Oct 2016 → 20 Oct 2022 - Applied Linguistics (Department)
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From1 Oct 2015 → 31 May 2016 - Language and literature (Department)
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From1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2016 - Language and literature (Department)
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From1 Oct 2013 → 31 May 2016 - Erasmushogeschool Brussel (Research group)
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From1 Oct 2012 → 30 Sep 2013 - Applied Linguistics (Research group)
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From1 Oct 2012 → 30 Sep 2013 - Language and literature (Department)
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From1 Jan 2008 → 31 Oct 2015 - FORMER_Centre for Linguistics (Research group)
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From1 Oct 2007 → 1 Jan 2023
Infrastructure
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- CLARIAH-Flanders (Consortium partner)
Projects
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- Converging varieties in a multilingual city: a sociolinguistic study of dialect and language contact in fin-de-siècle Brussels (1865-1914)From1 Nov 2025 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM)From1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Tracing Sibilance: A Sociolinguistic Exploration of Spanish Heritage Language Varieties in BrusselsFrom1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Unveiling the unsuccessful: rethinking Haugen's model through the lens of failed standardization attempts in Dutch language history (1550-1850)From1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Towards multilingual language histories: Dutch in context and contactFrom1 Mar 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Meaning change in token space: a token-based computational approach to diachronic prototype semanticsFrom1 Apr 2023 → 31 Oct 2024Funding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- From dialectal chaos to linguistic uniformity? Exploring the role of standardization and dialect contact in Early Modern AntwerpFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- A cooperative e-platform for the teaching of minority languages in BrusselsFrom1 Jun 2021 → 31 May 2022Funding: Brussels Capital Region
- Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - Universiteit Leiden (NL), LISMONT ElineFrom9 Apr 2021 → 8 Apr 2025Funding: BOF - mobility
- CLARIAH-VL: Advancing the Open Humanities Service InfrastructureFrom1 Feb 2021 → 31 Jan 2025Funding: FWO International research infrastructure (IRI)
Publications
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- Heritage Spanish in Brussels(2025)Published in: Spanish in ContextISSN: 1571-0718
- Spanish as Immigrant Minority Language in Brussels: A Pilot Study on Maintenance and Vitality(2025)Published in: LanguagesISSN: 2226-471XIssue: 5Volume: 10Pages: 1-15
- Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish emigrant writing(2024)Series: Studies in Germanic LinguisticsPages: 276–300Number of pages: 25
- When Socialism Meets Terrorism(2024)Published in: Mass Communication & SocietyIssue: 6Volume: 27Pages: 1495–1528
- Taal. Van normenstrijd naar een eigen talige identiteit.(2024)Pages: 489-518Number of pages: 30
- Actual words were not included(2024)Number of pages: 311
- The driving forces behind verbal cluster order variation from Early to Late Modern Dutch(2024)Published in: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en GeschiedenisISSN: 0035-0818Volume: 100Pages: 163-180
- Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective(2023)Pages: 447-463Number of pages: 17
- Testing Frenchification(2023)Published in: Roczniki HumanistyczneISSN: 0035-7707Issue: 6Volume: 71Pages: 227-250
- Multilingualism in the Eighteenth Century(2023)Published in: Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal-en LetterkundeISSN: 0040-7550Issue: 2/3Volume: 139Pages: 119-281
Linked dataset
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- Verbal cluster order variation from Early to Late Modern Dutch
- Word count data - Historical Corpus of Dutch (HCD)
- Chinese Lexical Indicators of News Values (LINV)
- dataset relating to publication "Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective"
- French loan suffixes in Dutch Letters as Loot - Rutten & Vosters 2023
- Dataset relating to publication "Exploring past and present layers of multilingualism in Flemish-emigrant writing"