Jef Van Loon emeritus occasional assignment

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Anthroponymy of the Historical Low Countries (till 1225). 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011

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The project's primary goal is an Anthroponymic Dictionary of the (historical) Low Countries and adjacent areas, complementing Gysseling's Toponymische Woordenboek (1960). It will contain all references to persons (tokens) before 1100 and all personal names (types) written down before 1225, from archives in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, the French departments Nord and Pas-de-Calais, and former Rhine-Province.

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    Edition of Middle Dutch documents as a basis for historical dialect and idiolectgrammatica programs. 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2008

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    Digital enrichment and edition of an autographic Middle Dutch egodocument.

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      Digital Atlas and Etymological Database of Old Dutch (up to 1226). 01/05/2005 - 30/04/2009

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      The aim of the project is an etymological database of Old Dutch (including its precursors and its Romance and German neighbours up to 1226), based on M. Gysseling's Toponymisch Woordenboek (1960). An anthroponymical dictionary will be derived from the collected place names. The complete lexicon will be stored in a relational database and will be linked to a digital map of the historical Low Countries, both of which will be made accessible on the Internet.

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        A lemmatized, diachronic corpus on the Internet for Germanic languages, especially Dutch. 01/01/2001 - 31/12/2002

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        By building a lemmatized diachronic corpus of Germanic languages (concentrating on Dutch), the project hopes to contribute to the growing 'universal library' on the Internet, to provide an innovative instrument for linguistic research and to create a software-framework that can easily be extended to other languages and texts, including modern languages.

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          How does a language system deflect ? Major morphological changes in the German- and Dutch-speaking region at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century 01/01/1998 - 31/12/1999

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          The universal phenomenon by which languages gradually or drastically move towards a loss of inflectional forms, is called 'drift'. Little is known about the internal factors that steer these linguistic changes. The detailed progress of such linguistic processes remains an even less studies subject. The aim of this study is to gain a clear understanding of the morphological changes that took place in the German- and Dutch-speaking region about 1500. It is traditionally accepted that the most radical caesura in the process of deflection occurred in the 15th and at the beginning of the 16th century, which coincides with the transition from Middle to Modern Dutch. We have selected unique manuscripts dating from this period and belonging to a texttype that has not been studied from a linguistic perspective yet.

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            An Atlas of Old-Netherlandic 01/01/1995 - 31/12/1995

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            This project will be devoted primarily to the completion of the Atlas with a more philological part and a strictly liguistic part in which pre- 1226 Dutch is to be reconstructed in accordance with recent insights from comparative linguistics and on the basis of empirical data derived from the data base set up in the earlier stages of the project.

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            • Promoter: Van Loon Jef
            • Co-promoter: De Schutter Georges
            • Co-promoter: Hessmann Pierre
            • Co-promoter: Kremer Ludger

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              An atlas of old-Netherlandic 01/01/1994 - 31/12/1994

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              Construction of a database of the relicts of old Netherlandic, i.c. place names. This database will enable us to create linguistic maps of old Netherlandic.

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              • Promoter: Van Loon Jef
              • Co-promoter: De Schutter Georges
              • Co-promoter: Hessmann Pierre
              • Co-promoter: Kremer Ludger

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                An atlas of Old-Netherlandic 01/01/1992 - 31/12/1993

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                The project aims at converting the sole relics of Old-Netherlandic, i.e. its place-names, into a dBase-III+format. This database, which will contain some 18.000 records, will enable us to create linguistic maps and diagrams, and a grammar (graphemology, phonology and morphology) of Old-Netherlandic.

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                • Promoter: Van Loon Jef
                • Co-promoter: De Schutter Georges
                • Co-promoter: Hessmann Pierre
                • Co-promoter: Kremer Ludger

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                  An atlas of Old-Netherlandic 01/10/1989 - 31/01/1992

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                  Construction of a database of the relicts of Old Netherlandic, i.c. place names. This database will enable us to create linguistic maps of Old Netherlandic.

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