Projects
The development of Dutch language acquisition by pupils in Flemish and Dutch education. KU Leuven
Finish your plate and clean up your language! A mixed methods approach to Colloquial Belgian Dutch and Standard Dutch variation in child-directed speech at Flemish dinner table conversations. KU Leuven
This project studies variation in the way parents address their children, focusing on parents’ selection of Colloquial Belgian Dutch (‘tussentaal’, e.g. gij ‘you’) or Standard Belgian Dutch forms (e.g. jij ‘you’). To acquire a comprehensive view on the matter, a mixed methods approach is adopted, in which quantitative and qualitative approaches are integrated.
Sabbatical Albert Oosterhof: Applied Dutch studies: Language variation and grammar studies in applied perspective KU Leuven
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 ...
Learning Dutch in Flanders. The acquisition of sociolinguistic variation with adult L2 learners Ghent University
Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation is increasingly considered essential for L2 speakers. At the same time it poses challenges, especially for late language learners. This project focuses on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by late starting learners in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Flanders offers a fascinating context for this project, because the linguistic landscape is strongly dominated by non-standard ...
SRP-Groeifinanciering: Historical sociolinguistics: towards a new history of Dutch in Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Variable determiner use in Dutch Low Saxon: Investigating the interplay between grammatical, stylistic and dialect geographical aspects of its distribution KU Leuven
Artists' Lives in Dutch and Flemish biographical fiction (1918-2008): narratology, poetics, dynamics. KU Leuven
The Hierarchical lexicon: a contrastive study of productivitiy and schematicity in Nominal Compounds in German, Dutch and Swedish Ghent University
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
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 “motion > change-of-state”.