Research projects

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  • Three wired telephones

    Survey Language Attitudes in the Low Countries

    1 January 2022 until 31 December 2023 Research

    This project concerns a survey about the languages ​​spoken and taught in the Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia) and the attitude of language users towards the different languages, and organized a study afternoon about this.

  • 17th-century Dutch Courant message with "ABC" written across the page in blue

    Spread the new(s)!

    1 January 2020 until 1 September 2025 Research

    By investigating the (socio)linguistic factors in the functional implementation of a standard language, this project hypotheses that newspaper were crucial in the expansion of the Dutch standard language.

  • Sociolinguistic research on language and culture of the Mennonite community of ejido Salamanca, Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico

    1 January 2018 until 31 December 2023 Research

    This PhD research examines the language and culture in a community of Old Colony Mennonites newly formed in 2004 in southern Mexico, state of Quintana Roo.

  • Scrabble letters

    Morphological effects on syntactic variation

    1 January 2014 Research

    In the literature on syntactic variation, several correlations between syntactic and morphological variation have been identified. In this project, we explore the possible correlation by evaluating existing generalisations and arguing for new ones.