ΔiaLing
The research group ΔiaLing clusters scholars who conduct research in the field of historical and diatopic linguistics, and gives as such visibility to these fields of study. The research conducted by ΔiaLing contributes to these disciplines in the following ways:
(i) language description and documentation through the creation and dissemination of various types of descriptive tools that are of use to the linguistic community (e.g. dictionaries, grammars, corpora, text editions, databases, etc.);
(ii) the advancement of linguistic theory, which is informed by empirically-grounded studies.
A number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on language variation and change (e.g. Construction Grammar, Grammaticalization Theory, Relevance Theory, Prototype Theory, Dynamic Syntax, Cartography, Nanosyntax and, more generally, Generative Grammar) are explored for the genesis and development of a variety of phenomena. These include, among others, discourse markers and adverbs, aspect and modality, word order phenomena and information structure, transitivity alternations and valency, case-marking and argument structure, nominal constituents, adverbial clauses, negation and word formation.
Calendar
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Fri05Mar20213:00 pmMS-Teams
Koen Bostoen (UGent): Epidemic-driven population collapse in Congolese rainforest 1600-1400 years ago urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion
LectureShow contentKoen Bostoen (UGent): “Epidemic-driven population collapse in Congolese rainforest 1600-1400 years ago urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion”
Abstract: here
De vergadering zal via MS-Teams plaatsvinden: link te vinden in nieuwsbrief
Externen kunnen deelnemen door een e-mail te sturen aan dialing@ugent.be.
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Fri12Mar20213:00 pmMS-Teams
André Kött (UGent): Learning (im)polite forms of address through Early Modern dialogue books
LectureShow contentAndré Kött (UGent): “Learning (im)polite forms of address through Early Modern dialogue books”
De vergadering zal via MS-Teams plaatsvinden: link te vinden in nieuwsbrief
Externen kunnen deelnemen door een e-mail te sturen aan dialing@ugent.be.
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Mon22Mar20211:30 pmMS-Teams
Guglielmo Inglese (KU Leuven): The cross-linguistic emergence of middle voice systems: sources and processes
LectureShow contentGuglielmo Inglese (KU Leuven): “The cross-linguistic emergence of middle voice systems: sources and processes”
Abstract: here
De vergadering zal via MS-Teams plaatsvinden: link te vinden in nieuwsbrief
Externen kunnen deelnemen door een e-mail te sturen aan dialing@ugent.be.
News and press
- FWO senior onderzoeksproject 2020
- FWO subsidieert het Gesproken Corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND)
- ‘Waar is de meisje?’: Interview met Melissa Farasyn en Anne Breitbarth in “Mensentaal”
- Griekenlandcentrum: “Lingua graeca als lingua franca! De Griekse taal door de eeuwen heen”
- FWO-Mandaten 2019
- József Herman Award 2018 voor Simon Aerts