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 unpaid staff 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 speaking. Ye…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content TMA Data Across Languages This data table provides some basic information on the expression of tense and grammatical/viewpoint aspect in a genealogically balanced, worldwide sample of 180 languages. For each language, descriptive grammars were consul…

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 …

Theo Notteboom hoogleraar Publicaties Theo Notteboom Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents : a SERVQUAL approach with application to Kuwait Shuwaikh Port Bron Pomorstvo - ISSN 1332-0718-39:2 (2025) p. 373-388 Auteur(s) Ahmed Alsalfiti, Theo Notteboom Citatielink The im…

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 Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise Description and explanation of elements of grammar (English, Germanic languages, European languages, all languages) Explaining the dominance of postverbal negation in Sout…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content 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 present…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Profiling L2 English Writing: Crafting Learner Corpus-Derived Descriptor Scales for Functional Adequacy, Accuracy, Syntactic Complexity, and Lexical Diversity. 01/12/2025 - 30/11/2029 Abstract This project offers a novel, mu…

Dominiek Sandra emeritus occasional assignment Research Dominiek Sandra Research team Expertise Talks on literacy development and spelling problems. Exploring the limits of language non-selectivity: How do multilinguals process non-native cognates and interlingual homographs in sentences? 01/11/2020…

Theo Notteboom professor Publications Theo Notteboom Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents : a SERVQUAL approach with application to Kuwait Shuwaikh Port Source Pomorstvo - ISSN 1332-0718-39:2 (2025) p. 373-388 Author(s) Ahmed Alsalfiti, Theo Notteboom Citation link Th…

Grammar and Pragmatics search menu search content TMA Questionnaire This translation questionnaire consists of 71 items and is supposed to help researchers investigate the language-specific expression of three semantic categories which are central to the verb phrase: time reference (concerning the t…

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…

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…

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…

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: 2025, TOM KOSS: "The Present Perfective Paradox: A Typological Study of Present-Time Markers" (supervisors: Astri…

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…

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…

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 …

Patrick Dendale emeritus occasional assignment Activities : Details Patrick Dendale 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 …

University Foundation for Development Cooperation (USOS) search menu search content Control and Consent: Patriarchy and Power Tuesday 21 October 2025, from 18.30 to 20.30 at Stadscampus (R.002) Rodestraat 14 Antwerpen Sign up for this session Gendered violence and misogyny are widespread and of a gr…

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. September 2025 Accepted JvdA "Negation", International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 3rd Edition. Ed. by H. Nesi & P. Milin…