Recent & highlighted publications

Scholars from universities and cultural institutions across the Low Countries respond to Gloria Wekker’s ground-breaking book White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (2016). 

In this volume, long-standing assumptions about the formal changes involved in grammaticalization are evaluated in the light of the striking diversity of human languages. 

Meaning change in grammaticalization has been variously described in terms of decreasing semantic weight and increasing generality, abstraction, (inter)subjectivity or discourse orientation.

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars.

Rereading Paul van Ostaijen’s Occupied City in Light of the Contemporary Cinema Culture in Belgium.

 In this paper, we assess whether redundancy is rare or commonplace in language, using the marking of agent and recipient in ditransitive sentences as a test case

This paper proposes a data-driven procedure to study language variation at low levels of schematicity, based on Memory-based Learning.

This paper presents evidence from both corpora and agent-based simulation for the effect of lectal contamination. By doing so, it shows how agent-based simulation can be used as a complementary technique to corpus research in the study of language.

This paper illustrates the potential of construction grammar to uncover the integration of borrowed chunks. In focus is the emergence of the verb pimpen “to pimp” in Dutch, a rapid innovation from the English proper name Pimp My Ride. 

This chapter is a contribution to a reader about politically committed poetry in modern Dutch literature. It analyses a poem published in 1947 by the Flemish priest-poet Anton van Wilderode (1918-1998). 

Forthcoming publication.

This corpus study investigates the alternation between zo’n and zulk ‘such’ in front of plural and uncountable singular nouns, by putting three hypotheses to the test relating to lexical biases, function and register.

This study compares the factors that determine the alternation between a transitive construction and a reflexive construction among so-called 'psych verbs' in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch

In this paper, we argue that understanding language variation can be advanced considerably by systematically formulating and testing hypotheses at various levels in the constructional network.

In this article, we propose the use of regularized regression (Lasso) with k-fold cross-validation to investigate lexical effects in grammatical variation.

This chapter presents a critical overview of the different - and sometimes conflicting - definitions of intersubjectivity found in the literature.

This is a postface to a new facsimile edition of Paul van Ostaijen's key poetry collection Bezette Stad (Occupied City, 1921).

This text reflects upon Paul van Ostaijen's political position during the Berlin years (1918-1921), and more specifically upon his rejection of Belgian socialism and its leader, Emile Vandervelde.

In 1816 King William I of the newly established United Kingdom of the Netherlands ordered the foundation of three universities in the southern part of the realm (present-day Belgium).

This study analyzes the acquisition of Dutch intensifying constructions by French-speaking learners in Belgium. 

Das neunundzwanzigste Peter Weiss Jahrbuch publiziert erstmals zwei Fotostrecken des renommierten Fotografen Maurizio Buscarino aus den 1980er Jahren, in denen ephemere Theater-Ereignisse in bleibende Bildkunst übersetzt wurden.

Innovative and interdisciplinary approach to transfer.

This paper starts from the functional and structural similarity of stance constructions with ‘no’ wonder and ‘no’ chance in Present-day English, and sets out to compare their diachronic development.

Tanguy Habrand analyse le comportement de l'industrie du livre, les discours et les stratégies mises en place de mars à août 2020.

CLIL students outperform their peers who are enrolled in traditional foreign language instruction in terms of both productive use and receptive knowledge of intensifying constructions.

 This article aims to understand what types of discourse are categorized as ‘political’ in linguistic research and what their characteristics are (form, type of actors, policy domains, geographical coverage)

In den Beiträgen des Bandes wird das große Spektrum der aktuellen Migrationsliteratur von Autorinnen und Autoren aus Osteuropa im deutschsprachigen Raum veranschaulicht und theoretisch diskutiert.

This article analyses the use of (deliberate) metaphors in political discourse produced by French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians during non-institutional political interviews.

An important subset of the empirical research within usage-based construction grammar is formed by alternation studies. This paper takes stock of six possible ways of defining an alternation.

This study aims to explore the impact of formal and informal input on learners’ variability in writing, and to compare two target-language conditions (Dutch and English) in CLIL and non-CLIL settings in French-speaking Belgium.

Messianismus – die Vorstellung, dass ein Mensch, ein Volk auserwählt ist, Erlösung zu bringen – ist ein zentrales politisches und poetisches Konzept in der Literatur der Romantik.

This article explains how Spot German works and where the idea comes from.

In 1994, drie jaar voor zijn overlijden, publiceerde Gertrudes Johannes (Han) Resink (1911-1997) vier korte verzen onder de gezamenlijke titel ‘Puntdichten’.

The papers in this special issue address instances of perspective constructions in which there appears to be a clash between the referential identification of the conceptualiser and the interpretation of the conceptualiser value.

Based on qualitative and quantitative corpus research, this chapter argues that constructions with chance(s) in Present-day English enrich Talmy’s (1988) greater modal system in various ways.

This article traces the historical development of complement constructions with matrices containing be + NP with wonder as well as those containing be + tweo/doubt, and proposes an analysis of them at two levels of generality.

his article analyses the reception of two works, in which female homosexuality is explicitly discussed: the collection of short stories Het purperen levenslied (1922) and the novel De goddelijke zonde (1928).

This book presents a first comprehensive typological analysis of noun phrases in Australian languages, covering the domains of classification, qualification, quantification, determination and constituency.

Chaque poème d’Hans Faverey instaure un mystère.

This handbook aims at a state-of-the-art overview of both earlier and recent research on older, newer and emerging non-standard varieties of German.

Dieses Handbuch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über den Stand der Forschung und zur Praxis der Mehrsprachigkeits- und Mehrkulturalitätsdidaktik.

Charlotte Van den Broeck est la nouvelle révélation de la poésie flamande.

We investigate the cross-linguistic influence and the (longitudinal) impact of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on the acquisition of intensifying constructions.

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor.

Pragmatics is the peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA).

This paper focusses on verb-based nominalization in Harakmbut (isolate, Peru), which falls into two formal types on the basis of the prefix used. 

Der ›dtv-Atlas Deutsche Sprache‹ behandelt Geschichte, Aufbau und Systematik unserer Sprache.

« Il s’agit d’une collection en tant que morceau de musique, dans lequel les mêmes thèmes sont intégrés à une composition, avec ici et là de belles improvisations, des variations » explique l’auteur elle-même.

L’écriture de Hester Knibbe est d’une sècheresse qui prend feu, brûle par les deux bouts, infiltre sa violence froide dans les tissus de l’homme, dans son histoire. Elle vient couper la parole.

Wer Storms Werk mit der vielfach zitierten ‚Husumerei‘ und Provinzialität verbindet, assoziiert es oftmals auch mit gesellschaftlicher und ästhetischer Konventionalität.

Het Lexicon van Literaire Werken is een unieke, veelzijdige informatiebron over de Nederlandse literatuur.

This article aims to open the black box of Belgian intercultural historiography by introducing a unique Walloon minority perspective.

Based on an oral picture description task conducted among 46 participants, this contribution aims at describing how L1 speakers and learners of typologically different languages (French and Dutch) encode locative events.

Minco’s novelle gaat over het toeval dat de Joodse Frieda van de dood heeft gespaard tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, maar dat haar meer dan veertig jaar later toch inhaalt.

Two experiments were conducted in Belgium presenting federalism as Tetris – with control and treatment groups – in order to grasp the influence of this metaphor.

This article will first of all look into the genesis of Van Wilderode’s own poetic views and practice and their relation with the historical, political and ideological context in which they took shape.

This special issue explores the complex relationship between language policy, cultural output and political life in the short-lived United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-1830).

Romancier bien connu du panthéon littéraire belge, Georges Eekhoud (1854-1927) ne s’est pas limité aux pratiques d'auteur prestigieuses et à la langue française.

This publication brings together all of Elsschot’s poems from the only collection of poetry he ever published. The text of each poem is followed by an in-depth analysis and historical contextualisation.

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this engaging textbook on the study of English historical linguistics is uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches and perspectives.

On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses.