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Organisation
Linguistics Research Unit
Research Unit
Main organisation:Faculty of Arts
Lifecycle:1 Jan 2013 → Today
Organisation profile:
The Department of Linguistics brings together the linguistic researchers in the Faculty of Arts. Next to studies of a generalor theoretical linguistic nature, research is mainly oriented towards Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and the classical languages. In disciplinary terms, all fields of linguistics are represented: grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic linguistics and variational linguistics, and various kinds of applied linguistics (including language and education, translation studies, terminology).
Research is organized in six research groups:
- Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology: Functionele en Coginitieve Taalkunde: Grammatica en Typologie (FunC)
- Language and Education: Taal en onderwijs (T&O)
- Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics: Kwantitatieve Lexicologie en variatielinguïstiek (QLVL)
- Formal and Computational Linguistics: Formele en computationele Linguïstiek (ComForT)
- Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse: Multimodaliteit, Interactie en Discours (MIDI)
- Comparative, historical and applied linguistics: Comparatieve, Historische en Toegepaste Taalkunde (CoHisTal)
Keywords:Linguistics
Disciplines:Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Language studies