Projects
Contributions to formal and computational linguistics Abstract KU Leuven
Syntax and semantics have always taken center stage in linguistics. The accumulated knowledge was stored and transmitted in the form of grammars, dictionaries and specialized publications. With the advent of computational linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century there was a growing interest for the application of that knowledge in systems for automatic speech and language processing, such as machine translation, question-answer ...
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 lingüÃsticos 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 ...
Contrastive linguistics: applied and theoretical (CLAT). KU Leuven
Quantity and quality in linguistics: reverse dialectometry. KU Leuven
The interaction between information structure, syntax and semantics: a comparative linguistic and interdisciplinary analysis. KU Leuven
One of the major functions of language is to convey information between speakers and hearers. Speakers have several linguistic means at their disposal to structure the information they want to communicate, e.g. active (Nous avons pris la décision) vs passive sentences (La décision a été prise) refer to the same referential content but the way in which the information is structured differs. Information Structure (IS) is a basic ingredient of ...