Projects
FLaCIS - First Language Acquisition of Information Structure: the acquisition of topic and focus in French. KU Leuven
Survey on Language Competences in Flanders. KU Leuven
How pluricentric is the Dutch language really?! Mapping the mental representation of pluricentricity Ghent University
This project maps the mental representation of pluricentricity in the Dutch language area by empirically studying perceptions of and attitudes towards national grammatical and lexical variation. It will address the issue of conceptual and methodological vagueness in much research on pluricentricity by adopting a systematic transnational approach (collecting data in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten) and by ...
What can language variation tell us about insubordination? A comparative analysis of independent complement clauses in geographical and stylistic varieties of Spanish. University of Antwerp
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology). University of Antwerp
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology). University of Antwerp
Preverbal indefinite subjects in spoken and written French KU Leuven
1. Background and status quaestionis
Informal (mostly spoken) (henceforth IF) and formal (typically written) French (henceforth FF) are quite different. Some authors even speak of a diglossic situation and argue in favor of the co-existence of two different grammars in French (e.g. Klein 2012; Rowlett 2013). This opposition between IF and FF is particularly evident with the expression of the subject of the clause. Whereas in FF all ...