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English focusing adjectives: their function in noun phrase structure, diachronic development and theoretical implications. KU Leuven

Kristin Davidse
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven
Focusing adjectives, which delineate a focus value in relation to alternative values (e.g. the mere thought, pure good fortune, the village proper) are often not mentioned in existing descriptions of the English noun phrase (NP). This project aims to show that focusing adjectives serve a function in their own right, which has to be built into our synchronic and diachronic understanding of the English NP. I will study sets of adjectives from five ...

The development of small clauses in English: constructional growth and decline KU Leuven

Hubert Cuyckens
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven

This study investigates the development of the English Secondary Predicate Construction, against the background of current views on language change. A Secondary Predicate Construction, or SPC, consists of a verb, a noun phrase (NP), and an Xphrase (XP). The NP and XP are in a predicative relation, similar to a subject-predicate relation in a copular clause. In (1a) for instance, consider him handsome involves a verb ...

Cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: motoric, cognitive and linguistic aspects of sentence production University of Antwerp

Mariëlle Leijten
EduBROn, Management
Research has shown that Alzheimer (AD) patients manifest deterioration in language production. The current (diagnostic) instruments for language assessment (in general, as well as in relation to dementia) largely focus on product measures, such as phrase length and number of errors. However, the processes leading to spoken and written text production provide insight into language ability as well. This research project aims to develop valid ...

Cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: motoric, cognitive and linguistic aspects of sentence production. University of Antwerp

Mariëlle Leijten
EduBROn, Management
Research has shown that Alzheimer (AD) patients manifest deterioration in language production. The current (diagnostic) instruments for language assessment (in general, as well as in relation to dementia) largely focus on product measures, such as phrase length and number of errors. However, the processes leading to spoken and written text production provide insight into language ability as well. This research project aims to develop valid ...

Sabbatical Anna Kisiel KU Leuven

Anna Kisiel
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Brussels Campus

The goal of this sabbatical is twofold. On one hand I plan to establish new connections with researchers within and outside of Europe that would lead to a new scientific cooperation. On the other hand, I hope to use this time, and the expertise of the colleagues, to complete the works on the current C1-project. The new cooperations will be established via internet with colleagues overseas (e.g. Steven L. Franks at Indiana University ...

The Acquisition and Processing of Reference and Anaphora Resolution - Brussel - 05/05/2020 - 06/05/2020. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

An Vande Casteele
Centre for Linguistics, Linguistics and Literary Studies, R&D centraal
Theme of the conference
Referring to entities is a fundamental aspect of languages; it allows to refer to things and people in the world. Speakers can opt for different referential expressions (e.g. overt and null pronouns, noun phrases, proper names, etc.) to indicate a particular entity in discourse and listeners have to be able to select the correct referent according to the speaker’s intention. This is often known as anaphora ...

Re-configuring 'NPs' in Australian languages: Towards an alternative typology KU Leuven

Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven

Languages are traditionally classified as either having classic noun phrases (NPs), or not having phrasal construal at all. However, there are strong indications that many languages lie in between these two extremes, and that they have more than one type of construal available (e.g. 'classic' NP, discontinuous expressions, expressions with alternating positions for case markers, etc.). Findings from my previous research suggest that ...

A comprehensive semantic and formal description of nominal groups that take complement clauses in English: a neglected source of grammaticalization and subjectification processes and locus of synchronic variation. KU Leuven

Kristin Davidse
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven
Het voorgestelde project wil op basis van synchroon en diachroon corpusonderzoek komen tot een omvattende beschrijving van nominale groepen (NGen) die complementzinnen (CZen) nemen in het Engels (Biber et al.1999: 648-656) als onbeschreven bronconstructie voor zeker 3 grammaticalisatie- en subjectificatieprocessen (complexe subordinatoren, modale hulpwerkwoorden en markers). De descriptieve bijdrage van deze 3 casestudys aan ...

Natural and experimental evolution as a novel tool to identify genetic mechanisms underlying the complex phenotype of multidrug tolerance KU Leuven

Jan Michiels
Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics

During the golden age of antibiotic discovery, the fight against bacterial infections was believed to be won. Indeed, the introduction of antibiotics has changed health-care by curing previously untreatable infectious diseases and allowing for more efficient prophylaxis. Yet, recently, the evolution of antibiotic resistance has become a serious danger. The problem is even worse as antibiotic tolerance in many bacteria not only relies on the ...