Projects
A contact grammar of Romeyka. Ghent University
Romeyka is a seriously endangered Greek minority language spoken in north-eastern Turkey. Several hundred years of language contact with Turkish have led to very rermarkable morphosyntactic contact phenomena. Since we still lack a thorough grammatical description of the language, it is the aim of this dissertation to provide a grammar of the language, with particular attention to language contact phenomena.
Sociolinguistic variation in Ancient Greek dialects: mapping the contact between Doric and Koine Greek Ghent University
Ancient Greek dialects exhibit a great deal of geographic, diachronic, and sociolinguistic variation in their usage, both as spoken and as literary varieties. The Hellenistic age (4th – 1st cc. BC) was a crucial period for language contact and the rise of linguistic awareness, on account of the spread of a new variety used as lingua franca, the Koine. Previous studies have focussed on the diachronic spread of Koine and the gradual ...
From dialectal chaos to linguistic uniformity? Exploring the role of standardization and dialect contact in Early Modern Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel
process of normative pressure leading to variant reduction, recent
empirical research shows that standard languages are more likely to
emerge in the everyday language use of the wider population
through bottom-up processes of dialect contact. For Dutch, such a
bottom-up perspective has only been applied to the seventeenthcentury Northern ...
Prestige as explanatory factor for borrowability: A Cognitive Contact Linguistic approach. KU Leuven
Prestige as explanatory factor for borrowability: a Cognitive Contact Linguistic approach. KU Leuven
Why do the Dutch refer to their best friend as their 'soulmate' instead of their 'zielsvriend'? Why do the French use 'pipole' to talk about 'celebrities'? More generally, why do people borrow words from other languages? The two most popular answers linguists have provided are lexical gaps and prestige. It is not hard to understand the importance of lexical gaps: new objects or concepts need new names, and borrowing words is a convenient way ...
Effective information exchange and care orientation in Covid-19-related contact tracing phone calls. An applied sociolinguistic and conversation analytic enquiry into optimizing interactional dynamics and pragmatic awareness. Ghent University
Responding to a number of urgent problems noted in the area of Covid-19 contact tracing (reluctance to give information, lack of care orientation, script-dominated talk), this project analyses and seeks to optimize the interactional functioning of the contact tracing phone call services coordinated by the Flemish Agency for Health & Care. It combines 4 objectives: (i) diagnosis of interactional practice in 3 cycles of data collection and ...
Effective information exchange and care orientation in Covid-19-related contact tracing phone calls. An applied sociolinguistic and conversation analytic enquiry into optimizing interactional dynamics and pragmatic awareness. University of Antwerp
The absolute construction in 15th to 18th century Spanish and Dutch translations from Latin. On Latin influence and natural language change KU Leuven
The aim of this project is to accurately describe the development of the (pre)classical Spanish (Desaparecidas las joyas, llamaron a la policÃa) and Dutch (Wij zijn, alle factoren in aanmerking genomen, zeer tevreden) absolute construction (AC) on the basis of an exhaustive, corpus-based study. Previous research explained its origin either as an innovation ex novo, namely a case of Latin loan syntax in 15th-16th century erudite Renaissance ...
From the promised land: a historical sociolinguistic study of the influence of English on the language use of Flemish emigrants Vrije Universiteit Brussel
heritage languages in North America. While the dynamics between
English and many Western languages have indeed already been
abundantly studied, research on Heritage Belgian Dutch remains
uncovered ground to a very large extent. Nevertheless, Belgian
Dutch forms an interesting case study because of its rather unique
sociolinguistic history. ...