Projects
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology). University of Antwerp
Cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: motoric, cognitive and linguistic aspects of sentence production. University of Antwerp
Cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: motoric, cognitive and linguistic aspects of sentence production University of Antwerp
The differential role of cognitive and linguistic skills in the development of reading in Arabic language KU Leuven
The proposed longitudinal study will simultaneously target the core domains of the academic skill literacy, including word reading accuracy, fluency, phonological awareness, morphological awareness. It aims to investigate literacy development of children from kindergarten to second grade in order to learn about the predictors of and risks factors for specific reading disabilities. Firstly, there should be an identification of children at risk ...
Motoric, cognitive and linguistic writing process characteristics in Alzheimer's disease: a task validity, cross-sectional and longitudinal study. University of Antwerp
Motoric, cognitive and linguistic writing process characteristics in Alzheimer's disease: A task validity, cross-sectional and longitudinal study. University of Antwerp
Prestige as explanatory factor for borrowability: A Cognitive Contact Linguistic approach. KU Leuven
Prestige as explanatory factor for borrowability: a Cognitive Contact Linguistic approach. KU Leuven
Why do the Dutch refer to their best friend as their 'soulmate' instead of their 'zielsvriend'? Why do the French use 'pipole' to talk about 'celebrities'? More generally, why do people borrow words from other languages? The two most popular answers linguists have provided are lexical gaps and prestige. It is not hard to understand the importance of lexical gaps: new objects or concepts need new names, and borrowing words is a convenient way ...
אמת in the DSS: a cognitive linguistic, literary, and historical approach KU Leuven
This project aims at a philological discussion and semantic analysis of one of the apparent keywords, ʾemet—generally glossed as ‘truth’, but often meaning something different than English ‘truth’—in the Dead Sea Scrolls, in particular in three key texts in which ʾemet is particularly frequent, the Rule of the Community, the Thanksgiving Hymns, and 4QInstruction. The philological discussion aims largely at a first comprehensive critical ...