Projects
Digitizing innovative grammar. University of Antwerp
The grammar of upbringing beyond the Western epistemologies: Registers of upbringing in Vietnam from 2000s to 2020s KU Leuven
In the last four decades, tremendous effort has gone into developing a scientifically grounded way of raising children, known as ‘parenting’, largely founded in developmental and neuro-psychology. Partly in response, an existential-pedagogical account of raising children has been developed, centred around the concept of ‘upbringing’. Despite their state-of-the-art nature in the field of child-raising, both accounts have been developed within ...
The five first words. Multilingual cities in Switzerland and Belgium and the grammar of language choice in public space. KU Leuven
This project studies how unacquainted persons spontaneously engage in interaction in multilingual cities in Switzerland and Belgium. In consequence, it investigates language practices in present-day, urban environments. Officially multilingual cities, such as Fribourg (Switzerland) and Brussels (Belgium), have received extended attention with regard to how language policies are locally implemented. Little is known, however, about how people ...
E-ClaGram: a Modular Grammar for the 21th Century. Towards an Innovative Language Didactical Toolbox for the Classical Languages. KU Leuven
The aim of the doctorate is to come up with the publisher to compile an innovative didactic set of instruments that can be used in an easy way for the classical languages.
Collaborative grammar: the temporality and emergence of clause combination in Italian talk-in interaction KU Leuven
This research is part of a larger project on the topic of clause combination: Beyond the clause. Encoding and Inference in clause-combining (C14/18/034). In my thesis “Collaborative grammar: the temporality and emergence of clause combination in Italian talk-in-interaction”, I explore how collaborative practices of clause-combining relate to the sequential and temporal organization of turns and actions in talk-in-interaction. ...
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology). University of Antwerp
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology). University of Antwerp
Natiolectal variation in Dutch grammar: A data-driven approach KU Leuven
While Belgians and Dutchmen are well aware that they use different words, and that their pronunciation diverges, they are mostly oblivious to the fact that there are also grammatical discrepancies between Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch. Few Belgians, for instance, will realize that the preposition voor in Jan maakte (voor) haar een boterham 'John made (for) her a sandwich' is optional for them, whereas it is indispensable ...
Machine Learning of Computational Construction Grammars KU Leuven
The natural languages that underlie human communication are not static and innate, but emerge and evolve through the communicative interactions of interlocutors. The emergence and evolution of linguistic systems is driven by evolutionary processes, in particular variation, selection, self-organisation and level formation. These evolutionary processes take place within the linguistic system itself (rather than in the genes of the ...