Projects
Construction of a prototype electrosynthesis reactor University of Antwerp
Construction of couches for positioning of patients requiring radiotherapy for breast cancer Ghent University
Recent studies show that breast irradiation in the prone position offers an advantage over supine radiation: fewer acute side effects and a lower risk of radiation-induced heart disease or lung cancer. However, prone positioning is a complex procedure that is difficult to reproduce and uncomfortable for the patient. Innovative treatment tables for prone position are needed, not only to solve the aforementioned problems, but also to ...
Latijnse autoriteit en constructionele transparantie: neologismen in het Franse medische vocabularium van de middeleeuwen en hun voortbestaan. Latin authority and constructional transparency: neologisms in the French medical vocabulary of the Middle Ages KU Leuven
This study has investigated why certain French neologisms that emerged in the field of medicine during the Middle Ages managed to survive, while others disappeared after some time. My hypothesis is that morphology, in particular constructional transparency, contributed in a crucial manner to lexical preservation. More specifically, words formally close to Latin should have more chances of survival than original French creations, i.e. ...
Variation in Chinese analytic causative constructions: A multidimensional study KU Leuven
Cognitive Sociolinguistics, an enterprise that integrates Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, aims to take account of formal, conceptual and lectal dimensions for a more realistic model of language variation. In line with recent development in Cognitive Sociolinguistics, this project aims to provide a multidimensional investigation of Chinese analytic causative constructions from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. This ...
Corpus linguistics in the Greek papyri: developing a corpus to study variation and change in the post-classical Greek complementation system KU Leuven
The aim of this PhD project is to advance the corpus-linguistic study of the Greek papyri, a large diachronic corpus (3rd century BC – 8th century AD) of non-literary Greek. It consists of two central parts. The first part is focused on corpus design: starting from the transcribed (XML) version of these texts, it describes a pipeline model to supply the papyri step for step with linguistic information, using natural language ...
The impact of the electrocatalytic properties of Cu/Ag core-shell nanoparticles for the reduction of CO2 in an electrochemical flow microreactor. University of Antwerp
Latin authority and constructional transparency at work: neologisms in the French medical vocabulary of the Middle Ages and their fate. KU Leuven
Comparatives under the microscope: the syntax of standard markers KU Leuven
The COMIC‐project investigates the morphology, syntax, and semantics of adjectival comparative constructions of the type illustrated in (1). (1) Jill is taller than Fred. Compared to the positive degree (Jill is tall), the comparative construction adds two pieces of material. First, the comparative morpheme –er is added to the adjective tall, and second, the comparative adjective taller introduces the phrase than Fred, which contains the ...
Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax Ghent University
Lusoga has a form of nouns and verbs involving duplication of the root. For example, there are two copies of the verb root -w- ‘give’ in the sentence a-lii-ku-w-a bu-w-e ‘he is just giving you’. The duplicated constructions of Lusoga are noteworthy in part because of their apparent complexity: the two halves of the duplicated verb have different prefixes a-lii-ku- vs bu- and suffixes -a vs -e. Duplication of nouns and verbs is common in Bantu ...