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CoLLaTE

CoLLaTE

COntrastive Linguistics and LAnguage Typology in Europe

CoLLaTE is an international research network set up in 1996 with funds from the Flemish National Science Foundation (FWO) to

  • bring together, promote and co-ordinate fragmented research efforts in the field of contrastive linguistics
  • bridge the gap between theoretical and applied research so that (fundamental) contrastive research is put into practice, e.g. in language teaching and NLP and MT applications
  • archive bibliographical and other data and make them accessible.

These objectives will be developed and aimed at through

  • yearly organised thematic symposia and/or workshops
  • the exchange of materials and know-how between the participating research units
  • making available a bibliography on contrastive linguistics
  • the preparation of joint Flemish and/or European research projects.

The research units participating in CoLLaTE are

Core research unit:

The CONTRAGRAM group

Flemish partners:

  • The 'Psychopedagogical Studies of Language and Language Acquisition' research unit of the University of Gent (head: Prof. M. Spoelders)
  • The Centrum voor grammaticaal en lexicaal betekenisonderzoek/Centre de Sémantique Grammaticale et Lexicale of the University of Leuven (Prof. L. Melis)

The core research unit and its two Flemish partners constitute the steering committee of the network.

Other Belgian partners:

  • The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics of the University of Louvain (Prof. S. Granger)
  • The 'Unité d'études néerlandaises' of the University of Louvain (Prof. L. Beheydt)
  • The Ecole de Langues Vivantes of the University of Namur (Prof. P. Kelly)
  • The Department of Germanic Languages of the Free University of Brussels (Prof. P. Van de Craen)

International partners:

  • The Corpus Linguistics Group of the University of Birmingham (U.K.) (Prof. J. Sinclair)
  • The INTERSECT Project of the University of Brighton (U.K.) (Dr. R. Salkie)
  • The Syntaxe, Interprétation et Lexique unit (now part of UMR Savoirs, Textes et Langage) of the University of Lille (France) (Prof. D. Corbin)
  • The Département de Linguistique française of the Université de Provence (France) (Prof. C. Blanche-Benveniste)
  • The Forschungsgruppe Valenzforschung of the 'Institut für deutsche Sprache' in Mannheim (Germany) (Prof. H. Schumacher)
  • The Odense Valency Dictionary Project of the University of Odense (Denmark) (Prof. L. Schøsler)
  • The Département de français of the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) (Prof. H. Sørensen)
  • The Text-based Contrastive Studies in English unit of Lund University (Sweden) (Dr. B. Altenberg )
  • The Institut des langues romanes of the University of Uppsala (Sweden) (Prof. L.-G. Sundell)
  • The research group Gramática contrastiva inglès-español of the University of Huelva (Spain) (Prof. M. Martínez Vázquez)