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The development of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language: effects of immersion, language background and training by means of syntactic priming. University of Antwerp

Sarah Bernolet
Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)
Background:In these days of mass migration, many people learn a brand new language at a later age. This is not easy: Languages have both similarities and differences in the sentence structures with which they express particular meanings. For instance, the Dutch and French active sentences are similar in both languages (Le chat chasse la souris - De kat jaagt op de muis [The cat cases the mouse]), but Dutch has three different forms for the full ...

The development of Dutch language acquisition by pupils in Flemish and Dutch education. KU Leuven

Kris Van den Branden
Language, Education and Society, Leuven, Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation
In this study a secondary analysis is carried out of relevant research into the development of Dutch language proficiency of pupils in compulsory Flemish and Dutch education. For this purpose, a selection is made of relevant studies that were carried out in Flanders and the Netherlands, and that can provide further insight in (a) the process of Dutch language development, and the distinct phases in the development of several aspects of language ...

Sabbatical Albert Oosterhof: Applied Dutch studies: Language variation and grammar studies in applied perspective KU Leuven

Albert Oosterhof
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Antwerp Campus

The sabbatical period is aimed at carrying out a number of sub-studies in the field of Dutch grammar, language variation and language proficiency. This will include the following:
topics are published and presented:
- omission of language elements in headlines: prepositions (in collaboration with research group GIST, UGent);
- comparative correlatives in Dutch: constructions with the longer… the meer and influence of ...

Variable determiner use in Dutch Low Saxon: Investigating the interplay between grammatical, stylistic and dialect geographical aspects of its distribution KU Leuven

Albert Oosterhof
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Antwerp Campus
Definite articles are a core grammatical feature of European languages (Haspelmath 2001). Interestingly, in the Low Saxon dialects of Groningen, the use of definite articles is optional such as in the sentence: kou staait in sloot (cow stands in ditch), see Ter Laan (1953). Since research based on spoken languagedata is still lacking, this project’s starting point is a detailed empirical study of articleuse in Groningen, making use of ...

SRP-Groeifinanciering: Historical sociolinguistics: towards a new history of Dutch in Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Rik Vosters
Linguistics and Literary Studies
This research program sets out to re-evaluate several important themes in the history of Dutch, by applying current insights from historical sociolinguistics internationally to the language as it developed particularly in the Southern Low Countries. More specifically, we will take as a point of departure three domains on which significant progress has been made for larger languages such as English and German, but where these innovations have not ...

Towards a greater accessibility of audiovisual media: exploring machine translation for audio description from English into Dutch. University of Antwerp

Nina Reviers
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
A key concern within Translation Studies is the profound impact of technological developments on the dynamic human-machine interactions. In this respect, the introduction of neural machine translation systems has had a profound influence on the study and practice of translation. The role of technology is particularly outspoken in the area of focus of the present project, namely Audio Description (AD). AD is an access service that translates ...

Artists' Lives in Dutch and Flemish biographical fiction (1918-2008): narratology, poetics, dynamics. KU Leuven

Dirk De Geest
Dutch Literature, Leuven
This project focuses on fictional texts in Dutch which centre around the life of a non-fictional artist. It aims at charting the main characteristics of Dutch and Flemish biographical fiction, its poetics, its critical reception and its historical development in the 20th century. To this end, it combines theoretical approaches from narratology, research into conceptions of literature, and literary historiography. In 2008-2009, I will concentrate ...

The Hierarchical lexicon: a contrastive study of productivitiy and schematicity in Nominal Compounds in German, Dutch and Swedish Ghent University

Torsten Leuschner
Department of Linguistics

The project investigates the productivity and schematicity of nominal the compounds in German, Ductch and Swedish. Lexicological and Corpus-linguistic data are used to document convergences and divergences and to draw conclusions with regard to morphologica! theory (with special reference to the theory of the 'hierarchiecal lexicon' in construction morphology), the Germanic languages, and contrastive linguistics.

Copular verbs out of motion verbs: a comparative analysis of French and Dutch copular systems and processes of copularization Ghent University

Peter Lauwers
Department of Linguistics

This project aims to study change-of-state semi-copulas, originating from verbs that express physical motion, in a Romance (French) and a Germanic (Dutch) language. The architecture of semi-copulas in both languages (cf. Construction Grammar) and the historical process(es) involved in the creation of semi-copulas (cf. Grammaticalization) are to be compared in the light of the general evolutionary path U+201Cmotion > ...

 SABeD: The development of a Spoken Academic Belgian Dutch Corpus KU Leuven

Elke Peters
Language, Education and Society, Antwerp Campus, Processing Speech and Images (PSI), Leuven Language Institute (ILT), Centre for Language and Education, Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Antwerp Campus
Lectures are a typical mode of discourse of higher education. In these lectures, students are faced with new content offered to them in an unfamiliar and specific language register: academic Dutch. Recent research (Deygers, 2017; Deygers, Van den Branden, & Peters, 2017) has shown that Dutch-as-a-Foreign-Language learners at university struggle with academic spoken Dutch in lectures, even though they passed the university entrance language ...