Joop van der Horst's research while affiliated with KU Leuven and other places

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Rejoinder to the replies to our target article 'De taalwetenschap: een plaatsbepaling'
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In this opinion article we look at what the field of linguistics has achieved over the past decades. We see four major breakthroughs, but it is striking that those breakthroughs either do not bring real new ideas, but rather refer back to old views, or concern purely methodological innovations. And if there is real innovation, it turns out to be br...
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The application of evolutionary thinking to language change has a long tradition, and especially in functional approaches it is currently widely accepted that certain mechanisms can be fruitfully used to describe both biological and linguistic processes. In this article, the evolutionary concept of homoplasy, the recurrence of similar traits in unr...

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... ;Van de Velde and van der Horst, 2013;Van de Velde and Weerman, 2014). Hey, have the Netherlands also played football today? ...