Code-Switching in Erasmus’ letters: a New Approach to the Republic of Letters between Social Network Analysis and Historical Sociolinguistics KU Leuven
This project studies the use of code-switching – the switching from one language to another, in this case Latin and Greek, within a communicative unit – in the letters of Erasmus of Rotterdam (ca. 1466/69-1536). The first aim of this project is to create a relational database of a corpus of works by Erasmus, focusing on his correspondence and related works. Secondly, this project aims to disclose and analyse the groups, contexts, and goals ...