Projects
A study of BIYO, an endangered Chinese ethnic minority language of the Lolo-Burmese family: Language documentation and an analytical approach to the system of discourse markers in contact with Southwestern Mandarin Ghent University
This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, the language is very rarely transmitted to the younger generation which prefers Chinese or English as daily means
of communication. As such, the language community is continuously shrinking and the language is on the verge of ...
Language rights, policies and practices in linguistically diverse societies: are current legal orders addressing the needs and concerns of persons belonging to language minorities as well as those of the administration? University of Antwerp
Legitimizing elite multilingualism: Language policy, language practice and meta-pragmatic awareness in the international school University of Antwerp
Implicit Type-Directed Code Generation KU Leuven
Self-expression of silenced youth: Generation P's word-based art throughout Russia's totalitarian state transformation Ghent University
During the 2010s Russia has transformed into an increasingly exclusive and totalitarian state. Generation P, Russians born after the end of the Soviet Union who have become politically aware under Vladimir Putin's reign, now find themselves in a Russia that strongly differs from the country they grew up in. Instead their country starts to resemble the Soviet Union, the state generation P's parents grew up in. A significant part of generation ...
Spoken Dutch in Flanders. Perceptions and attitudes of a speech-making generation Ghent University
In the last few decades of the 20th century Flanders has witnessed the emergence of an intermediate language between the local dialects and the standard language. In order to understand current developments in this new variety (tussentaal) , we have to do research on the perceptions and attitudes of the younger generations in Flanders, the speech-making generations, on this variety.
Spoken Dutch in Flanders. Perceptions and attitudes of a speech-making generation Ghent University
In the last few decades of the 20th century Flanders has witnessed the emergence of an intermediate language between the local dialects and the standard language. In order to understand current developments in this new variety (tussentaal), we have to do research on the perceptions and attitudes of the younger generations in Flanders, the speech-making generations, on this variety.