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• Temporal Construals of Bare Predicates in Mandarin Chinese Research output

  This study presents the first systematic investigation and detailed theoretical analysis of the temporal interpretations of sentences with bare (aspectually unmarked) predicates in Mandarin.

• The Slovene dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria Research output

  A synchronic description of the endangered Slovene dialect spoken in the Gailtal valley in Carinthia, Austria.

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  Astrid Vandendaele Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The EUROLITHIC project Research project

  Nowadays, most Europeans speak a language belonging to the Indo-European language family. However, very different languages were spoken on our continent before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans. The EUROLITHIC project tries to find answers to the question which languages these were and where they came…

• 
  Tina Cambier-Langeveld Guest lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic: origin and accentuation Research output

  This dissertation provides a thorough review of the words belonging to the oldest layer of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and answers the question of how these words were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system.

• Word order and information structure in Makhuwa-Enahara Research output

  This dissertation investigates the grammar of Makhuwa-Enahara, a Bantu language spoken in the north of Mozambique. The information structure is an influential factor in this language, determining the word order and the use of special conjugations known as conjoint and disjoint verb forms.

• A Web of Relations: A grammar of rGyalrong Jiăomùzú (Kyom-kyo) dialects Research output

  This dissertation is a comprehensive description of the Jiăomùzú dialects. These dialects belong to the Tibetan-Birmese language of the rGyalrong spoken in the province Sìchuā, China.

• The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective Research output

  This thesis investigates the syntax of object marking in Sambaa and the Bantu languages in general, with particular focus on Swahili and Haya, as points of comparison.

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  Pascale Eskes PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Pluractionality in Hausa Research output

  This dissertation addresses the semantics of pluractional verbs in Hausa.

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  Benjamin Storme Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Unknown 18th-century Dutch: language variation in private letters Research output

  How did common people write in the late eighteenth century? Little is yet known on this topic, since our knowledge is mainly based on printed texts written by a small part of the (male) elite population. This dissertation – written from a sociolinguistic point of view – gives us new insights into late-…

• 
  Anikó Lipták Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects - A typological, theoretical and experimental approach Research output

  This dissertation provides an account of polar questions in Italian dialects from a typological, theoretical and empirical perspective.

• Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact Research project

  This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.

• 
  Marian Klamer Director PhD programs / Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Nancy Kula Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Michaël Peyrot Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in Indirect A'-Dependencies Research output

  This dissertation investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Zurich German and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The analysis is carried out within the Principles & Parameters framework.

• Innovation in tradition Research output

  This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).

• The syntax of verbal pseudo-coordination in English and Afrikaans Research output

  This dissertation provides a systematic description of English and Afrikaans verbal pseudo-coordination and a formal analysis couched in the Minimalist program.

• A Grammar of Mandarin Research output

  A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth.

• Greek-Dutch dictionary project Research project

  Lexicographical description of Greek; production of Greek-Dutch dictionary

• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World Research output

  This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another.

• Pickpocket compounds from Latin to Romance Research output

  This thesis discusses the development in Proto–Indo–European, Latin and Romance of a word–formation pattern which the most adequate terminology in use dubs ‘verbal government compounds with a governing first member’; I use the shorthand ‘pickpocket compounds’.

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  Debora Campos Wanderley Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• A Semiotactic Approach to Modern Japanese Research output

  The aim of this research was to establish if Ebeling's semiotactic theory and method of semiotactic analysis, as described in his works Syntax and Semantics (1978), Een Inleiding tot de Syntaxis (1994) and Semiotaxis, over Theoretische en Nederlandse Syntaxis (2006), could be applied to Modern Japanese…

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  Yiya Chen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Olga Nozdracheva PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sophia Nauta PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Going Dutch. The construction of Dutch in policy, practice and discourse (1750-1850) Research project

  The project Going Dutch investigates why the link between being or becoming Dutch, and knowledge of Standard Dutch is so often taken for granted in public discourse, by diving into its historical roots.

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  Janet Grijzenhout Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Tian Yang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Longming Shichuan Contract PhD Candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Things hold together: Foundations for a systemic treatment of verbal and nominal tone in Plateau Shimakonde Research output

  This is a study of Plateau Shimakonde, a sub-dialect of the Makonde language which is spoken on the Makonde Plateau in northern Mozambique.

• The Phonology of Shaoxing Chinese Research output

  This thesis presents a thorough survey of the central aspects of the phonology of Shaoxing Chinese from a synchronic perspective and on the basis of recent theoretical phonological developments, with the secondary goal of casting some light on current issues in Modern Chinese (Mandarin).

• Was macht Hypertext mit Text? Textlinguistische Einsichten in das be- und entgrenzende Wirken von Paratext und Text in Hypertext Research output

  This dissertation focuses on the question how text and paratext contribute to the way that text in a network-like environment is clearly bordered and at the same time can easily be linked to other texts.

• Aspect and Subjectivity in Modal Constructions Research output

  This dissertation investigates the interaction of aspect and subjectivity in modal constructions.

• Politiques, Education et Identités Linguistiques, le collège des Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939) Research output

  This dissertation sheds light on politics, education and linguistic identity by studying the case of the College of Jerusalem, founded by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

• A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya): Based on Umberto Paradisi’s Material Research output

  This dissertation provides a grammatical description of the Awjila language, a small Berber language spoken in the Libyan oasis of Awjila.

• The Italian 'Mobile Diphthongs': A Test Case for Experimental Phonetics and Phonological Theory Research output

  This thesis investigates durational aspects of the Italian mobile diphthongs with respect to other rising diphthongs and monophthongs and it shows to what extent the monophthong/diphthong alternation still occurs in contemporary Italian.

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  Arie Verhagen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adrien Dadone Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martijn Lemmen PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michaël Opgenhaffen University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• 
  Amos van Baalen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Benjamin Suchard Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Non-Verbal Clause in Qumran Hebrew Research output

  The present study comprises a classification and analysis of the syntax of the non-verbal clause in Qumran Hebrew, i.e. the linguistic variety (or varieties) found in the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls. The corpus consists of the non-biblical texts written in Hebrew; biblical texts and texts written in…