Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Beyond Time Non-prototypical uses of aspectual constructions in (more or) less typical environments Dates: 6-7 February 2020 Location: Palace of the Academies (KVAB), Brussels The first Beyond Time workshop – organized by Laura Michaelis, Astrid De…

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…

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…

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 …

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 Expertise This page provides an overview of the research expertise of all tenure track and tenured GaP members. For an overview of our current PhD students and their expertise, see Current PhD students. Boone Griet My primary research areas include s…

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 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 (…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Level 1 Modern Hebrew Level 1 Students learn to recognise, read and write the Hebrew alphabet. They build up a basic vocabulary and learn the basis of the Hebrew grammar (articles, declensions, adjectives and nouns, prepositions, the verb in the…

Dominiek Sandra emeritus occasional assignment Research Dominiek Sandra Research team Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS) Expertise Talks on literacy development and spelling problems. Exploring the limits of language non-selectivity: How do multiling…

Patrick Dendale emeritus occasional assignment Research Patrick Dendale Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise 1) Linguistic (distributional, semantic, pragmatic) analysis of mainly French data : evidential and epistemico-modal markers (tenses, verbs, prepositions, adverbs, ...), reported sp…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Research mission The research agenda of Grammar and Pragmatics (GaP) is in full agreement with the general interest for 'Language in Use' that characterizes the research done within the department of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. GaP unit…

Robert Verdonk emeritus occasional assignment Research Robert Verdonk Research team The Cuban journalistic discourse as an expression of an ideology of nationhood (1902-1921). 01/10/1995 - 31/03/1996 Abstract The first part analyzes the discourse of the editorials : use of tense, modality and pronou…

ExpertiseCentrum Hoger Onderwijs zoeken menu zoek inhoud Lunchsessie: Omgaan met hot moments tijdens de les dinsdag 22 oktober 2024, 12u - 14u, CST, D.328 (ingang via Grote Kauwenberg) Stel je voor: een student maakt een vrouwonvriendelijke of racistische opmerking. Enkele studenten weigeren een min…

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 …

Jim Ureel associate professor Jim Ureel Conference presentations & guest lectures (past & future) Ureel, J. J. J. (2023, June 23). Designing sociolinguistically responsive language instruction: A quantitative–qualitative study into operationalising linguistic (in)formality and facilitating style-s…

Walter De Mulder emeritus occasional assignment Research Walter De Mulder Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise The central question of my research is how language users can constitute a representation of the world (or other fictive worlds) in and through their use of language, how they can…

Patrick Dendale emeritus occasionele opdracht Activiteiten : detail Patrick Dendale Activiteiten Internationaal : detail Een gedetailleerder overzicht : Lezingen en conferenties buitenland Buitenlandse lezingen in ± 55 steden in 19 landen, tussen 1989 en 2022 : CROATIË : Split 2013 CYPRUS : Nicosi…

Formative Evaluation in Education search menu search content Questioning techniques A Step Back Description Taking a step back is a technique that gives the teacher the opportunity to use an incorrect answer from a student in the teaching process. How it works If a student fails to give the correct …

Peter Petré associate research professor Peter Petré Publications To appear a (2020). With Lynn Anthonissen (eds.). Constructionist approaches to individuality in language. Special issue of Cognitive Linguistics 31(2). To appear b (2020). With Lynn Anthonissen. Individuality in complex systems: A …

Patrick Dendale emeritus occasional assignment Activities : Details Patrick Dendale International activities : details A more detailed overview : Lectures and conferences abroad Lectures in ± 57 different cities, in 19 foreign countries, between 1989 and 2022: CROATIA : Split 2013 CYPRUS : Nicosia …

Instituut Joodse Studies zoeken menu zoek inhoud Variation within and across Jewish Languages Variation within and across Jewish Languages June 26th - 28th, 2013 Variation within and across Jewish Languages University of Antwerp, Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13 - 2000 Antwerpen With the financial supp…

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. …