Projects
Las vanguardistas: Spanish Women Poets and the International Avant-Garde (1910-1936). Ghent University
The early twentieth century saw the emergence of an avant-garde culture, which marked a turning point in the literary history of Spain. Until recently, discussions of Spanish vanguard poetry, have tended to focus on male poets identified with the “Generation of 1927”, which has been seen as a predominantly Spanish phenomenon and studied in isolation from European modernism. This study seeks to move away from this vision by examining a group ...
The Philippines and Equatorial Guinea in the Spanish Literary Production of the Early Francoism (1939-1955). University of Antwerp
Speech-act orientation and intersubjective alignment: modal and evidential meanings of Spanish conditional and future forms KU Leuven
What can language variation tell us about insubordination? A comparative analysis of independent complement clauses in geographical and stylistic varieties of Spanish. University of Antwerp
Function and form of the Spanish nominal vocative: between production, cognition and personality. Ghent University
Philippines at the crossroads: mapping the international presence in the Philippine literary field in Spanish between 1872 and 1945. University of Antwerp
Towards an open-source universal dependency treebank for spoken Spanish Ghent University
Sabbatical Kris Buyse: in (re)search of the European Spanish Heritage Learner KU Leuven
There are several reasons to understand more deeply the acquisition, teaching and learning of a Heritage Language (HL) or “heritage language” by Heritage Learners or “heritage language speakers”. Cummins (2000) emphasizes that the development of a rich mother tongue (L1) is crucial for the child's language development. Bilingualism has positive effects on the linguistic and pedagogical development of children, which can be partly explained by ...
What stays and what goes? Monitoring patterns of recent language change in Spanish youth language Ghent University
Recent important sociocultural changes, such as the expansion of mass media, have profoundly changed language interaction, especially between teenagers. This project aims to investigate how the Spanish teen language has changed over the past two decades. Concretely, the project has four main objectives. First, it will investigate the speed of language change by monitoring phenomena mostly operating at two different levels, namely the lexicon ...