Projects
Peasants, farmers and the rise of rural commodity markets. Test-case: the 18th century Land van Waas University of Antwerp
Pragmatic markers in native and non-native Englishes: A study into the use of and attitudes to pragmatic markers KU Leuven
The project is set to contribute to our understanding of the use of pragmatic markers (such as so, well, you know, like) by three different types of language users: native speakers of English, learners of English as a foreign language whose mother tongue is Dutch, and speakers who use English as a means of communication on a day-to-day basis. Its main research objective is to compare these three types of speakers of English in terms of their: ...
Impact of air quality on health: exploiting relevant markers of exposure, effect markers and gene expression data from Flemish human biomonitoring data and other databases. Hasselt University
'It's like y'know my mother tongue'. The impact of L1 and individual variation on the use of pragmatic markers by learners of English in peer-to-peer interaction KU Leuven
Neurophysiological Markers of Cognition in Healthy Ageing & Neurodegeneration. University of Antwerp
Valorization of a novel small scale Arabidopsis screening assay based on molecular ISR markers and identification of new biocontrol organisms (BCOs). KU Leuven
Biological markers for dementia (BIODEM). University of Antwerp
In-depth investigation of small airway remodeling in COPD phenotypes and its relation with clinical and physiological markers. University of Antwerp
Discourse markers in Italian L2 and heritage language Ghent University
The project analyses discourse markers in Italian, by comparing the acquisition of discourse markers by Belgian-Dutch speakers who study Italian as second language with that by Belgian- Dutch speakers who have learnt Italian as their heritage language. The project produces an analysis of the linguistic and sociolinguistic factors involved.