Projects
Special Research Fund Professorship in Ancient Greek linguistics and historical sociolinguistics Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
A historical and typological linguistic study of Bantu influence in Malagasy. KU Leuven
Poetry from the Margins. Literary, Philological, minguistic and historical analysis of a new corpus of byzantine Book Epigrams (800-1453) Ghent University
Literary, linguistic and historical analysis of a corpus of book epigrams from medieval Greek manuscripts. Unknown texts will be published with a commentary, both in paper version and on-line. The analysis will shed new light on the literary aesthetics of the Byzantine period, the evolution of medieval Greek language, orthography and verse forms, and the socio-historical context of the emergence of books and manuscripts.
Early Western Analyses of the Languages of Central Asia and India: Tradition and Renewal in Missionary Linguistics KU Leuven
From the 16th century onwards, European missionaries documented and described numerous non−European languages (many of which are now extinct or on the verge of extinction). Concentrating on the analysis of Central−Asian and Indian languages by 17th− and 18th−century missionaries, the present project seeks to chart the missionaries' attitudes towards unfamiliar, non−European languages and their views on theoretical issues such as linguistic ...
BOF ZAP linguistics Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology). University of Antwerp
SRP-Groeifinanciering: Historical sociolinguistics: towards a new history of Dutch in Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A historical inquiry into the adjective phrase in Dutch. KU Leuven
Writing the past in exile. The interwar Russian émigré historical novel (1917-1939). Ghent University
This project aims to study the interwar Russian émigré historical novel, i.e. the phenomenon itself and its relation to other realizations of the Russian and European historical novel. The focus lies on what historical facts the émigré historical novel selects as a topic and how it represents and interprets those. The specific circumstances, exile, suggests a peculiar approach to history.