Projects
Stylistic appropriateness in English as a foreign language: The acquisition of grammatical formality by translation trainees. University of Antwerp
Representation Learning for Sign Language Translation Using Linguistic and Knowledge-based Constraints KU Leuven
This PhD project is an integral part of the Horizon 2020 research project SignON, which unites 17 European partners in a research project that aims to facilitate the exchange of information among deaf and hard of hearing, and hearing individuals across Europe by developing automatic sign language translation tools. Recent machine learning methods based on neural transformer architectures have greatly improved the state-of-the art in natural ...
Measuring linguistic attitudes with auditory affective priming: Attitudinal variation towards varieties of Dutch KU Leuven
The objective of this work is twofold. It sets out to contribute to the study of language attitudes on a methodological as well as a descriptive level. The main goal of the study is the methodological one. Notwithstanding some exceptions (e.g. Preston 1982), quantitative language attitude research has known little methodological innovation since the introduction of the matched-guise technique in the 1960s (Lambert et al. 1960). This relative ...
De koppelwerkwoorden ser en estar in het licht van recente taalkundige benaderingen en van het onderzoek in tweede-taalonderwijs The copulas ser and estar in the light of recent linguistic approaches and the research in second language teaching KU Leuven
Las cópulas ser y estar a la luz de enfoques lingüísticos recientes y de la investigación en la enseñanza de segundas lenguas
The copulas ser and estar in the light of recent linguistic approaches and the research in second language teaching
Key words: Spanish, copulas, adjectival predicates, evidentiality, grammar teaching
The copulas ser and ...
Linguistic and cultural education in Western Christianity, from c. 380 until 735: A study of the content, form, and sociocultural insertion of Latin language manuals KU Leuven
This postdoctoral research project aims to improve our understanding of the linguistic and cultural foundations for education in Late Antique and Early Medieval Western Christianity. In order to do so, it will focus on the corpus of Latin language manuals (grammatical, lexicographical and orthographical works) produced during the period between the manuals of Augustine (c. 380) and Bede (d. 735). The project is based on the hypothesis that ...
A Constructionist Micro-Typology of Concessive Conditionals in Present-Day German: Patterns of Formal and Functional Variation Ghent University
My project is the first large-scale investigation of concessive conditionals (CCs) from the perspective of usage-based CxG. CCs are basically conditionals whose consequent holds under a range of antecedent values. Depending on quantificational strategy, CCs constitute a family of formally diverse constructions in many languages, ranging in German from the 'scalar' subtype (SCCs), which is based on conditionals, to the 'alternative' and ...
A Constructionist Micro-Typology of Concessive Conditionals in Present-Day German: Patterns of Formal and Functional Variation Ghent University
This project is the first large-scale investigation of concessive conditionals (CCs) within usage-based CxG. German ‘universal’ and ‘alternative’ CCs are connected by intersective gradience to predicates embedding interrogatives. Using extensive corpus data, the project will create a constructionist micro-typology of German CCs, document the cline linking CC protases to predicates and provide a formalised account of the cline’s discourse ...
Meritocracy and Literature: Transcultural Approaches to Hegemonic Forms Vrije Universiteit Brussel
manifests itself in powerful narratives across the globe, from the constitutionally embedded “pursuit of happiness” to neoliberal
narratives of self-enhancement. MERLIT investigates forms of these narratives, which are embraced for their seemingly empowering
and universalist appeal, but ...
Narrative Slowness: Inefficiency, Attention, Affect KU Leuven
We frequently talk about the pace of a story and make comments such as “this novel is fast paced” and “this book is slow.” This doctoral dissertation critically examines this experience of narrative rhythm and focuses on narrative slowness. Narrative slowness is understood here as an effect, more precisely as a sensation felt in the reading of a text. Narrative slowness can take many forms, both formal and experiential. Four forms of ...