International activities : details

A more detailed overview :

Lectures and conferences abroad

Lectures in ± 60 different cities, in 21 foreign countries, between 1989 and 2025:

  •  CROATIA : Split 2013
  • CYPRUS : Nicosia 2011
  • DENMARK : Aarhus 2011, Kopenhagen 2019, Roskilde 2005
  • ESTONIA : Tallinn 2018
  • FINLAND : Helsinki 2024
  • FRANCE : Arras 1997, Bordeaux 2012, 2025 (4), Caen 1999,2016, Cergy-Pontoise 2002, Cerisy-la-Salle 2004, 2007, Chambéry2011, Dunkerque 1995, Lorient 2002, Metz 1998 (2), 2001, 2002, 2003 (2), 2004, Montpellier 2010, 2018, Nantes 2024, Orléans 2013, Paris 1994, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2021, 2024 (3), Pau 2019, Rennes 2021, Reims 1998, Rouen 2000, Strasbourg 2023 (en ligne), Toulouse 2024, Tours 2002, Villejuif 2004
  • GERMANY: Köln 2015 (2)
  • GREECE : Athens 2023
  • HONG KONG: Hong Kong 2019
  • HUNGARY : Budapest 2002
  • ISRAEL : Tel Aviv 2000
  • ITALY : Macerata 2015 (2), Padova 2012, Pisa 2014, Riva del Garda 2005
  • LUXEMBURG : Luxemburg 2008
  • POLAND : Lublin 2015
  • ROMENIA : Bucarest 2022
  • SOUTH AFRICA : Cape Town 2018
  • SPAIN : Barcelona 1990, Cadiz 2004, La Laguna 2022, Madrid 2012, 2014, 2018, 2025, Oviedo 2008, Pamplona 2014, 2019, Zaragoza 2011
  • SWEDEN : Göteborg 2007, Stockholm 1999, 2005, Upssala 2013, 2017 (2)
  • SWITSERLAND : Champex 2017 (2), Fribourg 2011, Genève 2016, Lausanne 2022, Neuchâtel 2014, 2018, Zürich 1992
  • THE NETHERLANDS : Groningen 1992, Leiden 1989, Utrecht 1993
  • TUNISIA : Gabès 2009

Education and research abroad

Full Time Lecturer-researcher at the University of Metz  (France) from 1997 until 2002.

Member of PhD committees, HDR committees

Member and foreign examiner of 7 PhD examination committee in Linguistics :

  • Lausanne, Université de Lausanne, 2024 (2)
  • Paris, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2010
  • Paris, Université Paris Descartes, 2007
  • Paris, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2007
  • Paris, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2002
  • Nancy, Université de Nancy, 2000

Member and foreign examiner of 3 "Habilitations à Diriger des Recherches" examination committees in Linguistics :

  • Paris, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, HDR, 2008
  • Paris, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, HDR, 2011
  • Lille, Université des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Lille3, HDR, 2016

Permanent member of scientific committees of international journals

Handling editor van Journal of French Language Studies (Cambridge UP)

Member of the scientific committee of the following journals abroad or internationally oriented Belgian journals:

  • Cahiers Chronos (Rodopi, Nederland) : Comité de Lecture (2001-)​
  • Cahiers de Praxématique : Comité de lecture (Montpellier, Frankrijk) (2006-)
  • Faits de Langue : Comité international de lecture (Le Mans, Frankrijk) (2013-)
  • Cahiers de Lexicologie (2019-)
  • Scolia (2018-)
  • Information grammaticale (rubrique Primaire) (2018-2025) 
  • Belgian Journal of Linguistics (Benjamins, The Netherlands) : Editorial Board (2000-2012)
  • Langages : Comité scientifique (Parijs) (2008-2012)

Peerreviewing for international journals, publishers, research projects

Peer reviewing of articles for 37 international journals :

  1. Anuari de Filologia
  2. Argumentation
  3. Belgium Journal of Linguistics
  4. Cahiers chronos
  5. Cahiers de Lexicologie
  6. Cahiers de praxématique 
  7. Carnets du Cediscor
  8. Çédille
  9. CMLF
  10. Corela
  11. Discours (online)
  12. Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
  13. Faits de langue
  14. Folia Linguistica
  15. Intercultural pragmatics
  16. Journal of applied psycholinguistics
  17. Journal of French Language Studies
  18. Journal of Historical Linguistics
  19. Journal of Linguistics
  20. Journal of Pragmatics
  21. Le discours et la langue
  22. Langue française
  23. Lidil
  24. Lingvisticae Investigationes
  25. Linguistics
  26. Minorités linguistiques et société
  27. Pratiques
  28. Probus
  29. Revue de sémantique & pragmatique
  30. Revue romane
  31. Scolia. Revue de linguistique
  32. Southwest journal of linguistics
  33. Studii de lingvistică
  34. Syntaxe et sémantique
  35. Travaux de linguistique
  36. Travaux du CBL
  37. Verbum

Peer reviewing of book contributions for international publishers:

  1. Mouton De Gruyter
  2. Peter Lang
  3. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle 
  4. UP Cracovie

Peer reviewing of foreign research projects:

  • NWO (The Netherlands) 
  • ANR (France)
  • SNF (Zwitserland) 

 

Research collaboration with colleagues abroad

Publications in co-authorship with the following  10 colleagues abroad:

  • Diana Andrei (Romania & France)
  • Viara Bourova (Bulgaria & Belgium)
  • Danielle Coltier (France)
  • Caroline David (France)
  • Dámaso Izquierdo AlegrÍa (Spain)
  • Johanna Miecznikowski (Switserland)
  • Bauvarie Mounga (Rwanda & Switserland)
  • Beata Schmid
  • Ana Stulic (France)
  • Carl Vetters (Belgium & France)

Lectures with the following 7 colleagues from abroad:

  • Diana Andrei (Romania & France)
  • Viara Bourova (Bulgaria & Belgium)
  • Danielle Coltier (France)
  • Caroline David (France)
  • Dámaso Izquierdo (Spain)
  • Greta Komur (Poland & France)
  • Corinne Rossari (Switzerland)
  • Ana Stulic (France)

Research stays at the UA under my supervision of 4 colleagues from abroad :

  • Diana Andrei (Paris, Université de Paris Sud)
  • Elisa Gonzalez (Spain, Universidad de Zaragoza)
  • Dámaso Izquierdo (Spain, Universidad de Navarra)
  • Bauvarie Mounga (Cameroon, Université de Genève)​

Organization of international conferences and workshops

Organization of 11 seminars, symposia and workshops with international participants, 5 in Belgium and 6 abroad (France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, France)

  1. Organisation  Workshop SLE 2025 – Societas Linguistica Europaea 58th Annual Meeting, Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne, 26-29 August 2025, " WS23 - "Turn out verbs and constructions crosslinguistically: Properties and boundaries, synchrony and diachrony", 26-28.08.2025 (with Ana Stulic).
  2. Organisation panel at the 16th International Pragmatics Conference(9-14.06.2019) – Hong Kong, 06.06.2019, "The identification of evidentials :  procedures, protocols, tests and criteria" (with Dámaso Izquierdo)
  3. Organization Workshop at the 11th International Conference Chronos on Actionality, Tense, Aspect, Modality/Evidentiality ( Pisa, 17.06.2014 : « Dimensions pragmatique, discursive et rhétorique de l’évidentialité » (with Dámaso Izquierdo)
  4. Organization International Conference « Genre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora » (11-12.06.2013), Institut Libre Marie Haps, Brussels, (with Marie-Aude Lefer et Svetlana Vogeleer).
  5. Organization panel at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference (9-13.07.2007) – Göteborg ,13.07.2007, "The notion of speaker commitment or speaker responsibility and its applications in linguistics / La notion de prise en charge ou responsabilité du locuteur et ses applications en linguistique" (with D. Coltier, Ph. De Brabanter)
  6. Organization International Conference La notion de prise en charge en linguistique / The notion of commitment in linguistics, University of Antwerp, 11-13.1.2007 (with D. Coltier, Ph. De Brabanter)
  7. Co-organization International Conference Adpositions of Movement, KULeuven, 14-16.1.2002 (with H. Cuyckens, M. Goyens, T. Mortelmans, W. De Mulder)
  8. Organisation and coordination of a panel at the VIIth International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA) – Budapest, 9-14.7.2000 : “Borrowed Information : Evidentiality and reported speech / L’information empruntée : Evidentialité et discours rapporté” (with L. Tasmowski).
  9. Organisation of a Journée d’étude on Le conditionnel – Anvers (UIA-UFSIA), 14.12.1998 (with L. Tasmowski).
  10. Organisation International Conference Les verbes modaux dans les langues germaniques et romanes / Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages – Université d'Anvers (UIA-UFSIA), 10-12.12.1998 (with J. van der Auwera).
  11. Organisation and coordination of panels at the VIth Congrès international de Pragmatique (IPrA) – Reims, 19-24.7.1998 : “Evidentiality / L’évidentialité” (with L. Tasmowski).

Erasmus Mobility and Responsibility

  • Academic Exchange Coordinator in Language and Literature of the Faculty of Arts - UA
  • Academic Exchange Coordinator for French in Language and Literature of the Faculty of Arts - UA
  • Teacher Mobility to the University of Macerata (Italy) (Nov 2015)

Membership of international associations

Member or former member of :

  • Cercle Belge de Linguistique
  • International Pragmatics Association (Belgium)
  • Association des sciences du langage (France)
  • Société de linguistique romane (Germany)
  • Societas Linguistica Europaea

Teaching languages, research languages

  • Teaching : all courses at the University of Antwerp and the University of Metz: FRENCH
  • Teaching : the course "Evidentiality" in the interuniversitary ManaMa of Linguistics at the University of Ghent: ENGLISH
  • Publications: in FRENCH (standard), in English (13), in DUTCH (1)
  • Lectures and conferences:  DUTCH (5), FRENCH (110+) en ENGELS (25+) between1990-2025

Lectures in ENGLISH  (13 between 2013 and 2019; 6 between 2021 and 2025) :

  1. Lecture at the 16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA) 9-14.06.2019 – Hong Kong, 13.06.2019, « ‘Non-evidentials’ : the case of verbs like s'avérer, turn out, blijken, resultar »
  2. Lecture at the University of  Navarra ¬– Pamplona, 21.05.2019, « Reflections on the identification of evidentials illustrated by the meaning of some French evidential markers” 
  3. Lecture at the ICEM’18 – International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality 2018, 19-22.09.2018 –Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 19.09.2018 : « Disentangling expressions of evidentiality and epistemic modality in French. The case of seemingly modal adverbs certainement, sans doute, peut-être (que)»(with Philippe Kreutz)
  4. Lecture at the SLE 2018 – 51st Annual Meeting of theSocietas Linguistica Europaea, 29.08.2018-01.09.2018 – Tallinn University, Tallinn (Estonia), 29.08.2018 : "How to identify and inventory markers of inferential evidentiality? A first overview of practices, problems and criteria illustrated with the analysis of French and Spanish expressions" (with DámasoIzquierdo)
  5. GaP-Lecture (11.10.2017) – Universiteit Antwerpen, « What is ‘evidence » in on evidentiality studies ? »
  6. Lecture International Congress of Linguistics - ICL20 (02-06.07.2018) – Convention Center Cape Town, South Africa, 04.07.2018 : "The notion of ‘evidence’ in the study of evidentiality and the ‘identification problem’ of evidential markers”
  7. Invited lecture - Erasmus stay (27.11.2015 – 4.12.2015) – Università di Macerata, Macerata, 3.12.2015 : « ‘Visibly’: the relations between perception, cognition and language”.
  8. Invited lecture - Erasmus stay (27.11.2015 – 4.12.2015) – Università di Macerata, Macerata, 30.11.2015 : « Pragmatics of knowledge and belief: introduction to the epistemic and evidential aspects of communication”.
  9. Poster 14th International Pragmatics Conference (26-31.07.2015) – University of Antwerp, 28.07.2015:The circumstances and reasons for use of “devoir épistémique” in French. A corpus study in comic strips” (with Jessica Van de Weerd).
  10. Lecture 14th International Pragmatics Conference (26-31.07.2015) – University of Antwerp, 28.07.2015:Challenging the classical conceptual definitions of evidentiality. A case study of French and Spanish visiblement/visiblemente and some related markers” (with Dámaso Izquierdo)
  11. Lecture International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014 (EMEL’14) (6-8.10.2014) – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 07.10.2014 : “The French reportative conditional, an evidential marker ?”
  12. Lecture International conference “Commitment phenomena through the study of evidential markers in Romance languages” (04-05.11.2014) ­– University of Neuchâtel,  04.09.2014, “The status of the notion of (non)commitment in empirical studies on French evidential markers” (withDámaso Izquierdo)
  13. Lecture SLE 2013 (17-21.09.2013) – University of Split, Split, 17‑21.09.2013 : “From when the French conditional has been an evidential quotative marker?” 19.09.2013.​