Projects
Processes of change in modal collocation. University of Antwerp
Consistency between time dependent travel costs and activity patterns: New theory development with validation through mobile data collection methods. KU Leuven
The contributions of this research are situated on three main (individual) components and on the synergy that emerges when they are considered together.
Dynamic network loading
The contributions of this part are mainly the development of an iterative link transmission model scheme. Firstly, this semi-analytical simulation scheme allows a modeller to define a time resolution that is fit for the accuracy level required by ...
Performative patterns in the history of Greek (500 BCE – 600 CE) Ghent University
In modern languages, polite formulaic phrases often trace back to performative verbs (e.g. performative verbs of asking such as parakaló in Modern Greek, bitte in German or prego in Italian). Despite the communicative significance of these patterns nowadays, remarkably few researchers have investigated the significance of performatives in ancient languages such as Ancient Greek, even though they provide direct evidence of ancient ...
Global knowledge spillovers between market rivals: cross-border internal linkage strategies in R&D, multi-location technology competition, and heterogeneity in IPR policies KU Leuven
An important risk for multinational enterprises (MNEs) performing R&D at a global level is unintended technology diffusion to other firms (knowledge spillovers). One way a MNE can aim to reduce the risk that its knowledge and technologies are misappropriated by others is to adopt an R&D strategy focusing on control through internal linkages across dispersed R&D units. This project addresses three related and important issues. ...
Subject personal pronouns in Caribbean Spanish: The interplay of markedness of coding, statistical preemption, and structural priming. KU Leuven
In Spanish, speakers may refer to non-contrastive human-reference subjects with a combination of a subject personal pronoun (SPP) and the person-number ending of the verb (e.g., Yo trabajo I work) or only with the person-number ending (e.g., Trabajo [I] work). Earlier research has shown that the use of a SPP is more likely when the reference of the subject differs from that of the subject of the previous sentence, with first- and ...
Predictive simulations to explore gait control in children with cerebral palsy and provide guidance in the clinical decision making process. KU Leuven
Physics-based simulations of human movement have the potential to predict the functional outcome of treatments, thereby allowing clinicians to personalize and optimize clinical decision-making. These predictive simulations would be particularly valuable for treatments with modest and unpredictable outcomes, such as orthopedic surgeries aiming to improve walking abilities of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Yet computational and modeling ...
Counterfactuals in the History of Greek: An Enriched Diachronic Typology using a Context-Sensitive Evolutionary Model Ghent University
(1) If I were you,… (2) I should (have) know(n). (3) If only she had listened. These constructions are counterfactuals. They speculate about an unrealizable state of affairs based on an unrealized condition. Every language has these expressions but in varying forms. Counterfactuals originate from formerly non-counterfactual expressions through semantic bleaching, phonological reduction etc. in a grammaticalization cycle. Cross-linguistic ...
Counterfactuals in the History of Greek: An Enriched Diachronic Typology using a Context-Sensitive Evolutionary Model. Ghent University
This project analyses counterfactual constructions in the history of Ancient Greek (from 750BCE to 100CE). These counterfactuals are largely unstudied and more diverse in types than analysed before in linguistics. Previous research has yielded premature generalizations on the nature and evolution of counterfactuals. Therefore I will develop a quantifiable context-sensitive evolutionary model to provide an enriched diachronic typology of ...