Projects
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. ...
The Cartographic Semantics of the Reference Resolution Layer in Finno-Ugric Nominal Expressions: Description and Analysis Ghent University
This project undertakes a comparative study of the D-layer in six Finno-Ugric languages and pursues two major goals. First, it aims at providing a cartographic representation along with a semantic model for the D-layer in the six languages. Second, it will propose an account of the variation in the properties of the morphemes associated with the D-layer across FU languages. Along with these analytical objectives, an additional empirical ...
Experiential differences in the neural representation of word meaning: the impact of bodily and personal experience on action verb semantics. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Integrating the semantics of events, processes and tasks across requirements engineering layers Ghent University
In this project a method for enterprise architcture of small and medium sized enterprises is designed. The CHOOSE method comprises a simple modeling language, guidelines for using the language, and a set of software applications to build and manage CHOOSE models.
Integrating the semantics of events, processes and tasks across requirements engineering layers. KU Leuven
A comprehensive semantic and formal description of nominal groups that take complement clauses in English: a neglected source of grammaticalization and subjectification processes and locus of synchronic variation. KU Leuven
The contribution of the medial temporal system in humans to semantic processing of words and pictures. KU Leuven
The brain contains several memory systems. Episodic memory deals with episodes in a particular space and time context and is typically associated with structures deep in the temporal lobe (the medial-temporal lobe system). An episodic memory deficit is commonly seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Semantic memory refers to our knowledge of the world, the meaning of words and pictures and associations between concepts. Patients with semantic ...
When to lose one’s senses? Semantic loss vs polysemy sustenance in the lexicon of English KU Leuven
Semantic change is commonly recognized to follow an A > A/B (> B) trajectory. That is, semantic change always results in polysemy between old and new senses at first; only later and in only some cases does this lead to the eventual loss of an older sense. Whereas the general mechanism of semantic extension (A > A/B) has received ample attention, the possible next step, semantic loss (> B), is still ill-understood. Yet insight in ...
Automatic identification of semantic security vulnerabilities in system software such as kernels Ghent University
An operating system kernel is the most security-critical piece of system software running on a computer. Linux for example supports a plethora of hardware and different features for its many different use cases. To support its modularity and configurability, this code contains many indirections and interactions between different components. This leads to Linux being a security-critical code base, but at the same time being a code base which ...