Name Responsible Activity "Centre for Linguistics" "Rik Vosters" "The main objective of the Centre for Linguistics (CLIN) is to promote basic research in theoretical and applied linguistics and the application of this research in the wider society. Research at CLIN addresses a broad spectrum of issues related to the structure, use, learning and teaching, historical development, and the social and political contexts of languages. Recent work includes studies on morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, sociohistorical linguistics, bilingualism and bilingual education, sign language, aphasia, second language acquisition, and methodology and practice in language teaching. Applications of research at CLIN include consultancy for private and public organisations in the areas of language and education policy, curriculum design, language teaching material development, language assessment, speech pathology, and natural language processing. The Centre has currently 35 members, 11 of whom have a tenure position at the university. CLIN is part of the Linguistics and Literary Studies department (TALK)." "Grammar and Pragmatics" "Mieke Vandenbroucke" "The research agenda of Grammar and Pragmatics (GaP) is in full agreement with the general interest for 'Language in Use' that characterizes the research done within the department of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. GaP unites researchers who share an interest for the study of (linguistic) MEANING in all its forms. Starting point of the research conducted within GaP is the assumption that grammatical knowledge (and linguistic knowledge in general) is built up through experience, through contact with actual language use and exposure to interaction. Therefore, language can only be studied from a USAGE-BASED PERSPECTIVE, which is reflected in the importance that is ascribed to the study of situated language use in specific contexts, by means of corpus analysis and ethnographic research. The more grammar-oriented GaP-research has an outspoken functional-cognitive orientation and focuses on uses of verbal and nominal (morpho)syntactic constructions like passive and focus constructions, modal, evidential and mirative constructions, tense, aspect and insubordination. Processes of grammaticalization and constructionalization are studied on the basis of present-day and historical corpora. The functional-cognitive orientation further implies that cognitive mechanisms (e.g. schematizing, priming, analogical relations) are considered to be important explanatory factors. Moreover, it is assumed that grammar (and language in general) is crucially imbedded in the communicative function of language, i.e. language is the product of communication between people. The more pragmatics-oriented Gap research studies intercultural and international communication, language and ideology, language and institutions and discursive practices in multilingual environments. Theory building within the broadly conceived field of linguistic pragmatics is also aimed at in order to provide a consistent framework integrating the different perspectives from which linguistic knowledge and language use can be approached. Interdisciplinarity is key in this respect." Latin-Greek "Research within the department SKLA is very diverse and therefore it was opted to refer to a number of keywords which coincide with the main research areas of the group. 1. Humanism and Renaissance (Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde, Justus Lipsius, Hadriaan Beverland); 2. Social and cultural study of carmina; 3. Epigraphica Latina; 4. Ionian prose (language and style); 5. Epistolography (second half of the 16th century); 6. Epigraphy and papyrology (inscriptions of Apamea in Syrië, ostraca of Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites in Egypt, social and economic history of the Egyptian village of Tebtynis in the Graeco-Roman period, edition of Greek papyri; Greek agonistica). Alongside with SKLA a number of research units also develop research on Latin and Greek writers, documents and language; as there are 'Greek and Latin Documents' and the Interuniversity Centre for Renaissance and Humanism, which will be described in detail on the following pages." "Research Centre : Esthetics, Imaginary and Creation" "The ongoing research of CREI is concentrated in the fields of: 1. Hermeneutics of Poetry; 2. Relations between Pictural and Poetical Creation (XXth cent.); 3. Aesthetics of Contemporaneous Arts; 4. Phenomenological, Semiotical ans Cognitive Approaches of Creativity; 5. Esoterism in literature, fantastic literature 6. Pedagogy of Creativity. Furthermore, CREI has special interest in: - Emile Verhaeren; - Jean Cocteau; - Christian Dotremont" "Roman Languages" "The following focal themes can be distinguished in the research of SROM: 1. Theoretical linguistics: Research concerning French syntax and semantics 2. Applied linguistics, psycho- and sociolinguistics: Research on the acquisition and education of language, history of didactics of language, theoretical and historical analysis of sources of didactic language education (manuals) 3. Research on the theory of literature: Interest in a variety of approaches of texts (psychoanalysis, sociology, stylistics, semiotics) and in the relations with other creative and artistic forms of expression. Further on, research on the philosophical aspects and on the basis of literature. 4. Research on the history of French and Italian literature: French literature: mainly the Enlightenment, the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, contemporary French poetry (Y. Bonnefoy) with a special interest in Belgian authors (Verhaeren, the surrealists, Michaux). Contribution to the scientific editions of the work of Vauvenargues, Prince de Ligne and Cocteau. Italian literature: early nineteenth and twentieth century (Leopardi, Florentine Futurism)."