Tom Koss predoc researcher FWO Research Tom Koss Research team Grammar and Pragmatics How to catch the present? A typological study of present-tense marking 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract The default function of a present-tense construction would appear to be locating situations at the time of spe…

Astrid De Wit associate professor Research Astrid De Wit Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise I am a cognitive linguist with a keen interest in the semantics of grammatical constructions, primarily within the domain of tense, aspect and modality. Why, for instance, do speakers of Dutch pre…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content View the presentations View the presentations Pier Marco Bertinetto. Stylistic functions of abrupt aspectual shifts. Examples from Italian narrative texts. Agnès Celle. The mirative extensions of motion verbs in non-canonical questions. Thera Crane.…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Program Program Download the program in PDF Venue: Rubens Auditorium, Palace of the Academies (KVAB), Hertogstraat/Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels Thursday 6 February 2020 09:00 Astrid De Wit, Michael Meeuwis & Frank Brisard Opening 09:30 Tom Güldemann …

Astrid De Wit hoofddocent Over Astrid De Wit Astrid De Wit Contact Stadscampus Toon e-mailadres Tel. +3232654588 Grote Kauwenberg 18 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Ik ben professor in de Engelse en algemene taalkunde. Ik doceer Engelse Grammatica en Taalbeheersing, Fieldwork in Linguistics en Engelse Socioling…

Frank Brisard professor Research Frank Brisard Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise My research is primarily informed by a cognitive-functional and usage-based approach to language, combined with a pragmatic focus on the analysis of actual language in use, mainly via the use of corpora. My…

Astrid De Wit associate professor About Astrid De Wit Astrid De Wit Contact Stadscampus Show email address Tel. +3232654588 Grote Kauwenberg 18 2000 Antwerpen, BEL I am a professor of English and general linguistics. I teach English Grammar and English Proficiency courses, as well as Fieldwork in Li…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Past GaP-lectures 2024 12 November. Nicola Swinburne (University of Antwerp): "'do' support in a northern Italian dialect" 22 October. Emmanuelle Labeau (University of Antwerp): "A brief history of tenses" 10 September. Griet Boone (University of Ant…

Johan van der Auwera emeritus occasional assignment Research Johan van der Auwera Research team Expertise Description and explanation of elements of grammar (English, Germanic languages, European languages, all languages) Explaining the dominance of postverbal negation in South American indigenous l…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Current PhD students Aida Thaqi is working on gender and language in a country of socio-political transformation: Kosovo Abstract This PhD research topic is twofold: First, it explores how protesters in Kosovo in the past and the present time have us…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Doctorates The following doctoral dissertations have been completed by members of GaP or under the guidance of a member of the GaP team: 2024, FIEN DE MALSCHE: "Language and globalization in Belgian corporate contexts: Institutional, individual, and …

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Developing pragmatic competence in LX German: The effect of context and individual differences. 01/06/2024 - 31/05/2028 Abstract In today's multilingual world, one of the main goals of learning a second or foreign language (…

Johan van der Auwera emeritus occasional assignment Publications Johan van der Auwera If you have trouble getting hold of any of these publications, drop me a line. October 2024 Accepted JvdA "Negation", International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 3rd Edition. Ed. by H. Nesi & P. Milin. …