Projects
HOW MUCH DOES MEANING MATTER? A FRESH LOOK AT GRAMMATICAL ALTERNATIONS KU Leuven
This project examines if and how the way people choose between different ways of saying the same thing depends on the meaning of the words in the utterance. Take variation between ditransitive dative constructions (as in “Tom sent the president a letter”) and prepositional dative constructions (as in “Tom sent a letter to the president”): variationist linguists are fairly good at modeling such variation based typically on formal predictors ...
How much does meaning matter? A fresh look at grammatical alternations KU Leuven
This project examines if and how the way people choose between different ways of saying the same thing depends on the meaning of the words in the utterance. Take variation between ditransitive dative constructions (as in “Tom sent the president a letter”) and prepositional dative constructions (as in “Tom sent a letter to the president”): variationist linguists are fairly good at modeling such variation based typically on formal predictors ...
Grammatical Robotic Fabrication: Introducing A Grammar for Programming Real-Time Interaction among Human, Robot and Material KU Leuven
In architecture and design, robotic fabrication has opened up new design opportunities because it enables designers to investigate materials by versatile mechanical manipulations at various scales. The typical robotic fabrication is one-directional as that commences from the digital modeling of a predefined form to its fabrication. The requirement of digital modeling restricts the creative design space of fabrication to what can be simulated. ...
Variable determiner use in Dutch Low Saxon: Investigating the interplay between grammatical, stylistic and dialect geographical aspects of its distribution KU Leuven
How extension works: Determinants of the extension of grammatical and lexical items in English and Dutch. KU Leuven
Extension is the process whereby a linguistic item spreads to new lexical or grammatical environments. This research plan lays out a model of extension, explaining why an item can extend to a given environment at a given time. It formulates three interrelated hypotheses on the starting point, course and end point of extension. The hypotheses are tested on four corpus−based case studies covering different domains of grammar. The focus is on ...
Encima de mí or encima mío? On the Grammatical Variation in Spatial Adverbial Expressions in Peninsular Spanish Ghent University
This projects examines the grammatical variation in a series of spatial adverbial expressions which are followed by a noun phrase in Peninsular Spanish. Specifically, it aims at the systematic analysis of the semantic-pragmatic and syntactic properties of two variants, encima de mí and encima mío, in a comparative diatopic perspective.
The interaction between tense and lexical and grammatical aspect. A comparative study of present-timemarking in the verbal paradigm. University of Antwerp
The interaction between tense and lexical and grammatical aspect. A comparative study of present-time marking in the verbal paradigm. University of Antwerp
Putting specificational there-clefts on the map: a data-based investigation of their grammar, semantics, prosody and pragmatics KU Leuven
In the mainstream literature on English, there-clefts have been very much neglected. Only presentational-eventive there-clefts, which introduce a whole new event, have been recognized, e.g.
"there’s a family of brush turkeys have moved in."
In this project, we will develop grammatical, prosodic and semantic-pragmatic arguments, grounded in a strongly data-based approach, for recognizing specificational there-clefts, i.e. ...