Code
01B05115
Duration
01 June 2015 → 31 May 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Chinese language
- Contact linguistics
- Discourse studies
- Historical linguistics
- Syntax
- Writing systems
- Study of Buddhism
Keywords
text database
Digital Humanities
vernacular Chinese
Chinese syntax
Buddhist studies
manuscript mark-up
Chinese historical linguistics
medieval Chinese manuscripts
Chinese historical phonology
paleography
Middle Ages
Oriental languages
Language and text analysis
Far East
Buddhist Chinese
Buddhist hybrid Chinese
Chinese Buddhism
Chinese manuscripts
Dunhuang manuscripts
Religion
Linguistics
Area studies
Language technology
Project description
The text database is of great importance for the further development of research in ‘Buddhist studies/historical linguistics’. Not only will these precious texts become digitally available, they are also programmed for international research purposes. As such, the database will make Ghent actively part of the new digital research communities in the study of Chinese linguistics and Buddhism.