The Association coordinates several multilingual research programmes.

Research axes


Predictive morphology

How inflectional and derivational systems encode future-oriented meaning.

Predictive syntax

Grammatical structures projecting events through time and space.

Predictive semantics

Modality, evidentiality, aspect, and the semantics of expectation.

Predictive pragmatics

How speakers anticipate the understanding of their interlocutors.

Computational prediction

Formal and computational models of linguistic anticipation.

Cultural foresight

Language as a vehicle of collective anticipation.

Current projects


Flagship programme · Since 2021 · 20+ languages

Predictive Grammar

Reconstruction of the grammatical mechanisms by which languages encode anticipation.

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Corpus project · Since 2022 · 12 languages

Modal Anticipation Atlas

Typological atlas of modal systems and their predictive functions.

Digital humanities · Since 2023

Computational Prediction in Historical Corpora

Applying modern predictive modelling techniques to classical and medieval corpora.

Applied linguistics · Since 2024

Predictive Discourse in Crisis Contexts

Examining how discourse in crisis contexts anticipates and shapes collective response.