Projects
Trilingual code-switching in the nominal domain: Evidence from two speech communities. KU Leuven
The variability of ergativity in the Indo-Aryan languages of the South-Asian sub¬continent. A typological study of the ergative patterning of Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Nepali, Marathi, Marwari, Sindhi, Punjabi and Gujarati. Ghent University
This typological study of various Indo-Aryan languages comprises two objectives: i) to elucidate, by means of a synchronic comparison, the diachronic problem of the disappearance or degeneration of the ergative construction in split ergative languages ii) to offer an empirical grounding for a better understanding of the phenomenon of ergativity and to offer an attempt to a general definition of it.
Person marking and aligment in the Kashmiri languages. A typological study of referential hierarchies Ghent University
This project is a contribution to the ongoing typological debate on how referential hierarchies are associated with alignment patterns. The project will provide a comprehensive analysis of the complex person marking system of Kashmiri and its dialects. This statistical analysis will be conducted from a typological perspective, and genetic and areal influences on person marking will be measured against universal tendencies in a ...
Limits of complementation: Constituency versus scope and relationality. KU Leuven
Verbal periphrases in Greek: a typological and diachronic research from cognitive- linguistic perspective Ghent University
This project researches the use of verbal periphrases in postclassical Greek, based on a corpus of early Christian biographical (narrative) texts. The project is embedded in the theory known under the umbrella term " Cognitive Linguistics". The main objectives are: (1) definition and typology (2) description of the position in the verbal system (3) description of the use in context (pragmatics),
Contrastive linguistics: applied and theoretical (CLAT). KU Leuven
Mapping metatext. On semantics of connectors, nature of conjunction and non-correspondence of metatexts of various languages on example of metatextual units marking opposition in Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, English and Dutch KU Leuven
In search of the Analytical Resultative Construction. A microtypological comparison of Romance and Germanic languages. Ghent University
This project is looking for (traces of) the resultative verbal construction (Ed hammers the metal flat) in 3 Romance (French, Spanish, Romanian) and 1 German (Dutch) language, in order to capture the microtypological variation w.r.t. lexical scope and productivity of the construction, against the background of other typological properties of these languages.
Development of full dictionary apps for five indigenous languages from the Princess Charlotte Bay region (Cape York Peninsula, Australia) KU Leuven
The goal of this project is to develop full dictionary apps for five strongly threatened indigenous languages from the Princess Charlotte Bay region (Cape York Peninsula, Australia). Based on 15 years of field and archive work in this region, I developed lexical databases for Umpithamu (Middle Paman), Umbuygamu, Lamalama and Rimanggudinhma (Lamalamic) and Flinders Island Language (unclassified Paman). These databases have never been an end in ...