Projects
Research and Training programme Historical Sociolinguistics University of Antwerp
Code-Switching in Erasmus’ letters: a New Approach to the Republic of Letters between Social Network Analysis and Historical Sociolinguistics KU Leuven
This project studies the use of code-switching – the switching from one language to another, in this case Latin and Greek, within a communicative unit – in the letters of Erasmus of Rotterdam (ca. 1466/69-1536). The first aim of this project is to create a relational database of a corpus of works by Erasmus, focusing on his correspondence and related works. Secondly, this project aims to disclose and analyse the groups, contexts, and goals ...
Special Research Fund Professorship in Ancient Greek linguistics and historical sociolinguistics Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
SRP-Groeifinanciering: Historical sociolinguistics: towards a new history of Dutch in Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
From the promised land: a historical sociolinguistic study of the influence of English on the language use of Flemish emigrants Vrije Universiteit Brussel
heritage languages in North America. While the dynamics between
English and many Western languages have indeed already been
abundantly studied, research on Heritage Belgian Dutch remains
uncovered ground to a very large extent. Nevertheless, Belgian
Dutch forms an interesting case study because of its rather unique
sociolinguistic history. ...
‘If only I could speak French’. A historical sociolinguistic investigation of French influence on Late Modern Southern Dutch. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
French in Dutch language history we aim to fill a descriptive gap, as well as contribute to our understanding ...
The Contribution of Inscriptional Evidence for the Analysis of the Vulgar Latin Vowel System (ranging from the Republican age to the Proto-Romance Period). Rome and Italy: a comparative study. Ghent University
The project studies how the vowel system of so-called "Classical Latin" (CL) evolved into the vowel system of the Romance languages from a diachronic, diatopic, and sociolinguistic perspective (the former system was based on distinctions of vowel quantity, while the latter is mostly based on quality oppositions). To this end, the research considers two different kinds of evidence: metalinguistic testimonies in Latin grammarians ("the indirect ...
Relative complexity. A historical-sociolinguistic study of relative clauses in Greek documentary papyri (I-VIII AD) Ghent University
The project aims to investigate relativization phenomena in Post-Classical Greek through a corpus of
Greek documentary papyri from Egypt constituted by letters, petitions and contracts from the first to
the eight century AD, exploring in particular the link between the linguistic variation and the
sociolinguistic distribution of relative clauses.
Apologizing strategies in Spanish: a diachronic and sociolinguistic approach Ghent University
Apologizing strategies in Spanish: a diachronic and sociolinguistic approach
This projects fits within the vast body on politeness research, but focuses on one specific politeness strategy in Spanish, namely the speech act of apologizing. Although a large number of studies have already been dedicated to the study of politeness and speech acts in the English-speaking world, it is only until recently that it has emerged in the field of ...