Projects
The Romance between Greece and the West. Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval narrative." Ghent University
Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally), this project offers the first reconstruction and interpretation of the persistence of (ancient) novelistic and (late antique and medieval)hagiographical traditions in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval ...
Genre and authorship in the popular romance novel: a theoretical exploration. KU Leuven
Semantics and syntax of the verb sentir: a comparative Romance study Ghent University
This project fits within the research into the possibly universal polysemy of perception verbs, but concentrates especially on a very complex but neglected element. More particularly, the project aims at the systematic analysis of the semantic and syntactic characteristics of sentir in Spanish and in comparative perspective with other Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan).
Fear. An Emotive Script in Middle Dutch Chivalric Romance (1250-1350). University of Antwerp
From Grammatical to Didactic Modelization: A Comparative Analysis of Early Romance Grammaticography (up to 1600) (French, Occitan, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese) KU Leuven
My research concerns the historiography of grammar as the descriptive 'hard core' (Swiggers 2012) of the history of linguistics, more specifically the earliest grammatical descriptions of the Romance languages. The time span chosen (13th century-1600), corresponding to the foundation of the vernacular traditions, provides us with a primary corpus of some 50 titles, representing 5 language areas (viz., Occitan, French, Italian, ...
The Romance between Greece and the West. Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval narrative. Ghent University
This project reconstructs and interprets the persistence of (ancient) novelistic and (late antique and medieval) hagiographical traditions in vernacular medieval romance. Narratological and rhetorical analyses trace diachronic continuities and synchronic differentiation in the characterization of heroes. The study can thus enhance our knowledge about the medieval reception of ancient narrating strategies and the literary complexities of an ...
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.
From three-place predicates to auxiliary verbs in Romance 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: Spanish, Portuguese and French. Three near-synonymous verb pairs will be studied: poner/meter (Sp.), pôr/meter (Pt.) and poser/mettre (Fr.) from a synchronic and a diachronic angle. The intra- and cross-linguistic differences in use and the grammaticalization paths of the verbs constitute the focus of this study.
Cleft constructions Romance and Germanic (non-standard) linguistic varieties Ghent University
In this research I will contribute to one of the major issues in the Gnerative approach, namely how much the interpretive component syntactically encoded. In order to do this, I will analyze the cleft structures of some Romance and Germanci languages with different main characteristics, with special attention for non-standard varieties of French, Dutch and European Portuguese.