Projects
The development and representation of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language and learners of Dutch as a second native language. University of Antwerp
Training priests for the Dutch Mission. The Defining Impact of Educational Institutions in Louvain on Catholicism in the Early Modern Dutch Republic (1592-1727) KU Leuven
Because of the ban on Catholicism of 1580, the Dutch Mission relied on foreign educational institutions to train Catholic priests for the Dutch Republic. As popular training centers of secular and regular clerics, educational institutions in Louvain could thus exert a powerful influence on Dutch Catholicism. Not only did they imbue future priests with the theological views that shaped their approach to their pastoral duties, they also acted ...
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’).
Through structured variation between standard and vernacular, parents implicitly teach their children which language features (and varieties) to use in which context, hence at the same time revealing which language features ...
Dictionary of the Southern Dutch Dialects (DSDD). An integrated lexicological infrastructure for the South Dutch Dialects Ghent University
The DSDD-database will be made openly available via a user-friendly Virtual Research Environment including (a) concept-alignment tools to create the aggregated lemmas (b) an API (application programming interface) to enable data export for use with analytical research tools (e.g. for geo-visualisation, quantitative lexicology and dialectometry) and (c) a collaborative bibliography.
The added-value of the DSDD for digital ...
From Valla's Dialectica to Stevin's Bewysconst: Humanist Philosophy of Language and the Emergence of Dutch Vernacular Logic KU Leuven
This project deals with the emergence of Dutch vernacular logic,
focusing on its philosophical, logical and linguistic aspects. While
there has been much research on the development of vernacular
logic traditions in Western Europe as well as on the development of
Dutch as a scientific language, hardly any work has been done on
the specific area of Dutch vernacular logic. In this project we will
study a corpus of ...
Binominal quantifiers in Dutch, English, French and Spanish: a comparative study of form-function correlations and metaphorization. KU Leuven
The project proposes a comparative study of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Dutch, English, French and Spanish. BQs are highly frequent quantification devices that hyperbolically indicate the extension of a set of entities. E.g. heaps of people boosts the number of people profiled, whereas many people does not. BQs present the following formal pattern:
(DETERMINER) NOUN (PREPOSITION) ...
The development of clause linking and complex sentences in the second language acquisition of Dutch and French. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sociolinguistic gatekeeping with indexical variation: a quantitative-qualitative investigation of the endexical value of Standard and Colloquial Belgian Dutch variation in 'elderspeak' in Flemish nursing homes KU Leuven
In many Western societies, elders (>65 years) are gradually becoming a larger demographic (OECD Data, 2016), yet at the same time, a complaint frequently heard among the older generations is that people no longer respect their elders. This complaint is supported by a linguistic phenomenon studied in Sociolinguistics known as ‘elderspeak’ (Kemper, 1994). Elderspeak refers to a cluster of linguistic features utilized by younger adults to ...
Measuring linguistic attitudes with auditory affective priming: Attitudinal variation towards varieties of Dutch KU Leuven
The objective of this work is twofold. It sets out to contribute to the study of language attitudes on a methodological as well as a descriptive level. The main goal of the study is the methodological one. Notwithstanding some exceptions (e.g. Preston 1982), quantitative language attitude research has known little methodological innovation since the introduction of the matched-guise technique in the 1960s (Lambert et al. 1960). This relative ...