Tom Koss predoc researcher FWO Research Tom Koss Research team Grammar and Pragmatics How to catch the present? A typological study of present-tense marking 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract The default function of a present-tense construction would appear to be locating situations at the time of spe…

Peter Petré Starting Grant 2014 The dynamics of correlated multiple grammatical changes in Early Modern English writers (MindBendingGrammars) Mind-Bending Grammars examines change in mental grammars of 17th century individuals across their lifespan as attested in their writings. The project treats …

Alessandra De Mulder researcher My website Alessandra De Mulder Embedding a consumer revolution. Shifting value constructions and mental frameworks in auction advertisements in the United Kingdom, c.1730-1830 Why do new consumer patterns emerge, become popular or, rather, go unnoticed or disappear q…

Mind-Bending Grammars search menu search content Project - Mind Bending Grammars Project The project Mind-Bending Grammars examines change in mental grammars of 17th century individuals across their lifespan as attested in their writings. The project treats grammar as a self-organizing network of fo…

Peter Petré associate research professor Research Peter Petré Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC) Expertise Language change. Broad expertise on, mostly, English (all periods, both at the aggregate level and that of individual men…

Astrid De Wit associate professor Research Astrid De Wit Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise I am a cognitive linguist with a keen interest in the semantics of grammatical constructions, primarily within the domain of tense, aspect and modality. Why, for instance, do speakers of Dutch pre…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Stigmatics Research on stigmatics of the nineteenth and early twentieth century can provide new insights on lived religion, celebrity culture and the cult of living saints, political Catholicisms, and the tensions and collaborations betw…

Tinne Van Osselaer Starting Grant 2014 Between saints and celebrities. The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950 (STIGMATICS) By far most of the historical studies on the 'golden age' of the stigmatics have focused on medical debates and religious treatises. This project wants …

Sustainable Development and Global Justice search menu search content Academic requirements SUSTJUSTICE is a post-graduate level programme and the completion of bachelor-level education is an entry requirement. Participants will be selected on the basis of their previous and current studies or pract…

Oscar Gelderblom full research professor Research Oscar Gelderblom Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Financial History and Social and Economic History of The Netherlands and Belgium from 1500 to the Presents History of Trade and Finance in Europe before the Industrial Revolution (1200…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Developing pragmatic competence in LX German: The effect of context and individual differences. 01/06/2024 - 31/05/2028 Abstract In today's multilingual world, one of the main goals of learning a second or foreign language (…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Current PhD students Aida Thaqi is working on gender and language in a country of socio-political transformation: Kosovo Abstract This PhD research topic is twofold: First, it explores how protesters in Kosovo in the past and the present time have us…

Letteren en Wijsbegeerte Departement Taalkunde Doctoraatsverdedigingen Departement Taalkunde Doctoraatsverdedigingen Kennis integreren in open-domein dialoog - Ehsan Lotfi (14/06/2024) Ehsan Lotfi Doctoraatsverdediging: 14 juni 2024 Promotor: Walter Daelemans Abstract Vanuit een generatief oogpunt k…

Tim Soens full professor Research Tim Soens Research team Centre for Urban History Power in History - Centre for Political History Expertise Tim Soens is an expert in Landscape and Environmental history, with specific emphasis on - climate history (Little Ice Age to Anthropocene) - coastal and river…

Centre for Urban History search menu search content Academic Projects - Centre for Urban History Ongoing projects The Financial Inclusion of Migrants: The case study of Nineteenth century Antwerp. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2027 Abstract During the 19th century, millions of people moved from the countryside…