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Projects

Current:

• Modality and grammar, 1998-2000, Research Foundation - Flanders, Jan Nuyts.

• Modality and negation in Tamil and Telugu, 1998-2001, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Pappuswamy Umarani.

• A syntactic atlas of the Dutch dialects, 2000-2003, Research Foundation - Flanders, Annemie Neuckermans, Guido vanden Wyngaerd and Vicky Van Den Heede.

• Towards a typology of transcategorial operations, 2000-2001, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Andrej Malchukov.

• Collaboration with V. Plungian at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts. Project: The typology of the pluperfect, 2001, Johan van der Auwera.

• The Mediterranean as a linguistic area : Synchronic structures and diachronic processes, 2001-2003, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Andreas Ammann.

• A cross-linguistic study of ideophones, 2002, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Nilson Gabas Jr.

• Predicative categories and information structure, 2003, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Nina Sumbatova.

• On the origin and development of "relative marking" - with special reference to West African languages, 2003-2004, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Mahamane Laoualy Abdoulaye.

• Modal auxiliaries and other expressions of modality in Dutch: A corpus-based investigation, 2003-2006, Jan Nuyts.

• Iconicity and the symbolic order of natural language. A study of the principles of iconicity theory on the interface of linguistics and metatheory, 2003-2006, Research Foundation - Flanders, Johan van der Auwera.

• Argument Structure of BE and Conflation in Romance and Germanic languages, 2003-2006, Research Foundation - Flanders, Gretel De Cuyper.

• Mood and Modality, 2003-2008, a GOA (Geconcerteerde Onderzoeksactie), Research council of the University of Antwerp, (final report in Dutch).

• The typology of non-declarative negation, 2005, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Matti Miestamo.

• Acquisitive modals, from a Burmese and a typological perspective, 2006, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Alice Vittrant.

• A diachronic and synchronic study of the imperative in Dutch, English and German, 2006-2008, Johan van der Auwera and Daniël Van Olmen.

• Digital edition and dabase of the Toponmic Dutch dictionary of M. Gysseling, 2006-2008, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Jef Van Loon.

• Proper names as a grammatical category: a typological study, 2006-2009, Research Foundation - Flanders, Mark Van de Velde.

• Proper names as a grammatical category: collection of primary data, 2007-2008, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Mark Van de Velde.

• The diachrony of Dutch modal expresssions, 2007-2010, Research Foundation - Flanders, Ewa Fiuk and Liesbet Bex.

• The development of markers pertaining to the semantic domain of irreality in the Mande languages, 2008-2009, Research council of the University of Antwerp, Dmitry Idiatov.

• Enriching Middle Dutch autographical egodocuments, a basis for a synchronic grammar of Middle Dutch, 2008-2009, Research Foundation - Flanders & Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, Jef Van Loon.

• A diachronic and synchronic study of the imperative in Dutch, English and German, 2008-2010, Research Foundation - Flanders, Daniël Van Olmen.

• AMITy - The Aspect-Modality interface: a Typological perspective, 2009-2011, Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship, Adeline Patard.

• Grammaticalization & (Inter)Subjectification, GRAMIS project, 2007-2011, Belgian Science Policy (Interuniversity Attraction Poles programme project P6/44).