Projects
The evolution of French grammatical thought, 1400-1850 : invariance and variation, determining factors, argumentation scheme KU Leuven
This study of the French grammatical thought between 1400 and 1850 includes : 1) a study of the development of French grammar-writing procedures and techniques. 2) a study of the relationships between linguistic description, language teaching and the analysis of French.
The translation and reception of the contemporary Peruvian fantastic narrative into French, Anglo-Saxon, and Brazilian literary systems. KU Leuven
This project intends to investigate the translation of contemporary Peruvian fantastic narrative and its reception within different literary systems. More specifically, its objective is to analyze how the “vacillation” between “the strange” and “the marvelous”, which is considered to be the elemental principle of fantastic literature, is translated into French, English and Portuguese, taking into account the two modalities that are emblematic ...
Revolution and Terror in contemporary French fiction: exploring an ideological legacy. Ghent University
This project sets out to understand the complex intertwining of literature, ideology and violence in
the novels of four prize-winning French authors. Patrick Deville, Pierre Michon, Olivier Rolin and
Antoine Volodine are often bracketed together as a generation of writers that have witnessed, and
some participated in, the ‘evolutionary years’that followed the 1968 upheaval.
The proposed project ...
Development of key package for language exams French ans NT2 for teachers Hasselt University
Analysis of the continuity between the first witnesses of the French writing tradition (from the 9th C.) Ghent University
Analysis of the continuity between the first witnesses of the French writing tradition (from the 9th C.), the preceding and coexisting Latin writing tradition, and the spoken language, with the help of the notion of 'style', i.e. by drawing the map of the manners in which these registers exploited the possibilities of the language system in function of expressive aims.
Digital Ecopoetics. Moving beyond Anthropocentrism in the Contemporary French Environmental Novel Ghent University
The DigEco project will analyze a corpus of 100 environmental French novels (from 2000 to the present day) using tools and methods developed in the Digital Humanities. This innovative approach will allow me to verify the hypothesis that this corpus is characterized by formal specificities that contribute to the definition of the environmental novel as a genre. I will attempt to show that the environmental novel renews fictional forms through ...
From French to Brabantine Rose: learning and critical sense in Middle Dutch secular literature KU Leuven
Reference in the French and Dutch noun phrase: The interaction between definite determiners and speech-act related referential adjectives. KU Leuven
The Making of French Legal Culture, 1200-1500 Ghent University
The current research traces the formation process of French legal culture in the late Middle Ages. In contrast to conventional narrative of a national legal history, it especially stresses three influential factors i.e., European-wide circulation of legal ideas, non-royal forces and politico-legal interactions in a European context. In so doing, it constructs a European narrative for French legal history.