Projects
Mišótika Cappadocian in contact: the consequences of linguistic change on the variety’s vowel system. Ghent University
This project is about Cappadocian, a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Asia Minor until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey (1924). It focuses on the vowel system of the only surviving dialect called Mišótika. The research will shed light on the dynamics of language variation and change in contact situations and it will be an important contribution to the documentation of the last of the Cappadocian dialects.
NEPHOLOGICAL SEMANTICS: Using token clouds for meaning detection in variation linguistics KU Leuven
Towards multilingual language histories: Dutch in context and contact Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The grammaticalization of the future and conditional tense in the history of Ibero-Romance: a language and dialect contact approach Ghent University
A contact grammar of Romeyka. Ghent University
Romeyka is a seriously endangered Greek minority language spoken in north-eastern Turkey. Several hundred years of language contact with Turkish have led to very rermarkable morphosyntactic contact phenomena. Since we still lack a thorough grammatical description of the language, it is the aim of this dissertation to provide a grammar of the language, with particular attention to language contact phenomena.
A study of BIYO, an endangered Chinese ethnic minority language of the Lolo-Burmese family: Language documentation and an analytical approach to the system of discourse markers in contact with Southwestern Mandarin Ghent University
This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, the language is very rarely transmitted to the younger generation which prefers Chinese or English as daily means
of communication. As such, the language community is continuously shrinking and the language is on the verge of ...
A historical and typological linguistic study of Bantu influence in Malagasy. KU Leuven
Trilingual code-switching in the nominal domain: Evidence from two speech communities. KU Leuven
Contact-related constructional change in Dutch argument structure constructions Ghent University
The project investigates the pathways and theoretical implications of contact-related change in the formal and semantic properties of schematic grammatical constructions and/or in their frequency of use. The empirical focus is on selected argument structure constructions from 19th Century Belgian Dutch (contact language: French) and from present-day Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch (contact language: English).