PROJECTS

Historical sociolinguistics

Strategic Research Program: Historical Sociolinguistics
(2024-2029)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Historical Sociolinguistics Research and Training Program
Research network (2022-2026)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

Setting the standard
Research project (2020-2024)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

‘Letters from the promised land’
PhD project (2021-2025)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

Image source: Brissot et 20 de ses complices condamnés à mort par le tribunal révolutionnaire – Bibliothèque Nationale de France. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84120266

Witness depositions
Research project (2021-2024)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Universiteit Antwerpen

Bononiensis' Antverpia | Museum Plantin-Moretus

Dialect contact in 16th-century Antwerp
PhD project (2022-2026)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

‘If only I could speak French’
PhD project (2019-2023)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

Pluricentricity in language history
PhD project (2017-2021)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

Forgotten voices from below
PhD project (2014-2019)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

Wikiscripta Neerlandica. Burgerwetenschap en talig erfgoed
Citizen science project (2016-2021)
Algemeen Nederlands Verbond (ANV)

Partner projects – advisory roles

Pardon my French? Dutch-French language contact in the Netherlands
Gijsbert Rutten – Universiteit Leiden 
Research project (2018-2023)
NWO Free Competition

Spread the news! Understanding standardization through 17th-century newspapers
Nicoline van der Sijs – Meertens Institute
Research project (2019-2023)
NWO Free Competition

Other sociolinguistics projects

Language ecology in the diaspora: Chinese minorities in Brussels
PhD project (2016-2020)
China Scholarship Council

Linguistic landscapes of the Chinese diaspora in Antwerp and Brussels
PhD project (2017-2021)
China Scholarship Council

Framing terrorism in Chinese and Western newspapers
PhD project (2017-2021)
China Scholarship Council

ALEF – Arabic language classes in Brussels
Outreach project – International Office
Vrije Universiteit Brussel