Projects
A diachronic and spatial analytical approach to linguistic micro-variation in the Kikongo dialect continuum. Ghent University
The proposed research project aims at: (a) identifying the broadest possible set of linguistic parameters along which Kikongo manifests micro-variation; (b) calculating linguistic distances between Kikongo varieties through computational techniques; (c) understanding how the Kikongo dialect continuum was shaped through time; (d) comprehending the role extra-linguistic phenomena played in the shaping of patterns of regional variation.
The grammaticalization of the future and conditional tense in the history of Ibero-Romance: a language and dialect contact approach Ghent University
What can language variation tell us about insubordination? A comparative analysis of independent complement clauses in geographical and stylistic varieties of Spanish. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Albert Oosterhof: Applied Dutch studies: Language variation and grammar studies in applied perspective KU Leuven
The sabbatical period is aimed at carrying out a number of sub-studies in the field of Dutch grammar, language variation and language proficiency. This will include the following:
topics are published and presented:
- omission of language elements in headlines: prepositions (in collaboration with research group GIST, UGent);
- comparative correlatives in Dutch: constructions with the longer… the meer and influence of ...
NEPHOLOGICAL SEMANTICS: Using token clouds for meaning detection in variation linguistics KU Leuven
'I write my own Claus-language'. Language variation in the literary prose of Hugo Claus (1929-2008): a stylistic analysis University of Antwerp
Speech-act orientation and intersubjective alignment: modal and evidential meanings of Spanish conditional and future forms KU Leuven
Tense and aspect in Kikongo: A descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach to form and function Ghent University
When one thinks about tense in language, one intuitively knows that one can indicate whether an event happens in the past, the present or the future, and that one uses different means for placing such an event before, during or after ‘the moment of speech’. For the English future one most commonly uses the auxiliary ‘will’ (e.g. ‘I WILL walk three kilometers later today’), but for the past one pastes -ED onto the end of the verb (e.g. ‘I ...