Projects
A Respeaking and Collaborative Game-Based Approach to Building a Parsed Corpus of European Spanish Dialects Ghent University
The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely unexplored, despite the recent surge in interest in dialect grammars. This is due to the lack of large annotated dialectal corpora. The proposed project aims to fill this lacuna and will create the first morphosyntactically annotated and ...
From three-place predicates to auxiliary verbs in Romace Languages: on the cross-linguistic equivalence of putting verbs in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Ghent University
This project aims at a comparative analysis of verbs of putting in three Romance languages: Spanisch, Portuguese and French. Three near-synonymous verb pairs will be studied: ponor/meter (Sp.), por/meter (Pr.) and poser/mettre (Fr.) from a synchronic and a diachronic angle. The intra- and cross- linguistiqc differences in use and the grammaticalization paths of the verbs constitute the focus of this study.
Function and form of the Spanish nominal vocative: between production, cognition and personality. Ghent University
In everyday speech, Spanish speakers frequently use vocatives, defined as (pro)nominal expressions used to directly address the interlocutor. Besides prototypical ‘proper noun’- vocatives, they have a wide gamut of vocatives at their disposal derived from common nouns and adjectives, which assume different interpersonal functions in discourse. As a result, the vocative is considered a strikingly productive category in Spanish, in terms of ...
II International CROS Conference 2024: "Crossing the Borders: Spanish and other Languages and Literatures in Contact". Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Variation and Change in Spanish and Portuguese partial interrogatives. KU Leuven
Spanish and Portuguese exhibit different ways of asking questions: questions in which the whelement is preposed (“What do you want?”), “cleft” questions (“What is it that you want?”), and “in-situ” questions (“You want what?”). First, we investigate why a particular question type is used more often in a particular conversational situation than in another, a question that has not yet been satisfactorily answered although it is important in ...
The "Nepantla" generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation of Spanish exiles in Mexico. KU Leuven
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 rate and nature of language change by monitoring six characteristics operating at the lexical and syntactic ...
IVESS: Intelligent Vocabulary and Example Selection for Spanish vocabulary learning Ghent University
In the research domain of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Vocabulary Learning (ICAVL), Natural Language Processing (NLP)-driven methodologies (e.g. using Part-Of-Speech tagging, lemmatisation, dependency parsing and word sense disambiguation) are applied to corpora in order to facilitate and/or automate the creation of vocabulary learning materials to be used in a CALL environment. By addressing pending research issues in the field of ICAVL, ...
Jesuit Musical Inheritance in the Spanish Netherlands and United Provinces (1540–1648) KU Leuven
The Counter Reformation caused the most dramatic musical shift the Catholic Church had seen in centuries. One of the key actors in this change were the Jesuits. Their expansion resulted in the dissemination of new music across the globe, reaching China, the Philippines and Mexico. But despite substantive research on Jesuit music elsewhere, we know little about their musical legacy in the Low Countries. Understanding this facet of Jesuit music ...