Over talen en tekens: bijdragen van jonge Gentse linguïsten

This volume in the annual series of the BGG presents contributions of four young linguists: Jesse Berwouts (on the construction "eat yourself thin"); Sara Delva (on "sollte", "moest" and "mocht" in conditional clauses); Dario Rens (on the transition from a dative construction to a prepositional construction in Dutch); and Doesjka Tilkin (on spelling issues in Scandinavian runic inscriptions)

[Review of] Ji, Meng (ed) (2016). Empirical Translation Studies. Interdisciplinary Methodologies Explored. Sheffield (UK)/Bristol (USA): Equinox, pp. 238, £17.52. ISBN: 9781781790496 (hardback)

The back cover of this book describes it as “a practical study guide to postgraduate and research students of applied translation studies.” This might give the impression that the volume is a textbook, which it is not. Rather, the book is a collection of nine separate articles. Their common denominator is that they are corpus-based or corpus-driven descriptive studies. Nevertheless, the contributions are so varied in approach and rich in information, that they can undoubtedly inspire other researchers in the field of descriptive translation studies

Magneto-asteroseismology of massive magnetic pulsators

Simultaneously and coherently studying the large-scale magnetic field and the stellar pulsations of a massive star provides strong complementary diagnostics suitable for detailed stellar modelling. This hybrid method is called magneto-asteroseismology and permits the determination of the internal structure and conditions within magnetic massive pulsators, for example the effect of magnetism on non-standard mixing processes. Here, we overview this technique, its requirements, and list the currently known suitable stars to apply the method.Comment: 5 pages, 1 table, IAUS 329 conference proceeding

Projecten medische terminologie aan de Hogeschool Gent

De Faculteit Toegepaste Taalkunde van de Hogeschool Gent (en de voorgangers van de Faculteit) hebben een lange traditie van medisch terminologisch onderzoek, vaak in samenwerking met het Heymans Instituut voor Farmacologie van de Universiteit Gent. Het “Drietalig vocabularium van wetenschappelijke en populaire medische termen” van neerlandicus van Hauwermeiren uit 1986 mag wel als het startschot worden beschouwd. Ongeveer tien jaar later was de Hogeschool de belangrijkste partner in het negentalige “Multilingual glossary” dat nog steeds online staat en druk wordt geconsulteerd (http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html) - maar ook dringend aan een opfrisbeurt toe is. Ondertussen waren twee medewerkers nog gestart met de stuksgewijze vertaling van de Medical Subject Headings aan de hand van afstudeerscripties. In dit MeSH Termbase Project zijn al meer dan 150 scripties geschreven. De Vakgroep Taaltechnologie van de Faculteit heeft zich ook toegelegd op medische terminologie en op de problemen rond verstaanbaarheid van medische bijsluiters, met projecten als ABOP en OptiPIL. Momenteel zijn er ten slotte o.m. plannen om het terminologisch materiaal van verschillende projecten te bundelen in een Belgisch medisch terminologiesysteem, waarbij ook de link zou worden gelegd met bestaande classificatiesystemen

Discovery of two new bright magnetic B stars: i Car and Atlas

The BRITE (BRIght Target Explorer) constellation of nano-satellites performs seismology of bright stars via high precision photometry. In this context, we initiated a high resolution, high signal-to-noise, high sensitivity, spectropolarimetric survey of all stars brighter than V=4. The goal of this survey is to detect new bright magnetic stars and provide prime targets for both detailed magnetic studies and asteroseismology with BRITE. Circularly polarised spectra were acquired with Narval at TBL (France) and HarpsPol at ESO in La Silla (Chile). We discovered two new magnetic B stars: the B3V star i Car and the B8V component of the binary star Atlas. Each star was observed twice to confirm the magnetic detections and check for variability. These bright magnetic B stars are prime targets for asteroseismology and for flux-demanding techniques, such as interferometry.Comment: accepted in MNRAS Letters, 5 pages, 3 figure