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Organisation
Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven
Main organisation:Linguistics Research Unit, Leuven
Lifecycle:1 Dec 2005 → Today
Organisation profile:
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 Leuven houses the CHL, the Center for the Historiography of Linguistics
Keywords:Linguistics, Historical-comparative linguistics, Contrastive-typological linguistics, Historiography of Linguistics, Romance and Classical Languages
Disciplines:Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies, Language studies, Literary studies