| Conference |
International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification
|
| 11-13 November 2010 |
The International Conference on Grammaticalization
and (Inter)Subjectification emerges from the interuniversity research
project (2007-2011) on Grammaticalization
and (Inter)Subjectification, funded by the Belgian Federal Government
(IAP VI/44), and involving the Universities of Antwerp, Ghent, Hanover,
Leuven, and Louvain-la-Neuve, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa
in Tervuren. |
| Conference |
Coglingday
|
| 2010 |
Full details to follow |
| Workshop |
6th European Australianist Workshop
|
| 20-22 November 2009 |
The 6th European Australianist Workshop
took place in Leuven and was organized by Jean-Christophe
Verstraete, An Van linden and Stefanie
Fauconnier |
| Workshop |
First Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on the Structure of the Noun Phrase in English:
Synchronic and Diachronic Explorations
|
| 2-3 October 2009 |
First
Vigo-Newcastle-Santiago-Leuven International Workshop on ‘The structure of the noun phrase in English: synchronic and diachronic explorations' (NP1), to be held at the University of Vigo (Spain) on 2-3 October 2009. See the NP1 website. |
| PhD defence |
Dynamic, deontic and evaluative adjectives and their clausal complement patterns:
A synchronic-diachronic account
|
| 21 February 2009 |
Public defence of An Van linden's doctoral dissertation.
President of the jury: Nicole Delbecque.
Jury members: Hubert Cuyckens (supervisor), Jean-Christophe Verstraete (supervisor), Kristin Davidse, William McGregor (University of Aarhus), Bettelou Los (
Radboud Universiteit
Nijmegen). |
| Conference |
New reflections on grammaticalization 4
|
| 16-19 July 2008 |
Conference convened by Bert Cornillie, Hubert Cuyckens, Kristin Davidse, Torsten Leuschner (Ghent University) and Tanja Mortelmans (University of Antwerp) aiming to
explore the boundaries of the current grammaticalization research.
Previous editions of NRG were held in Potsdam (1999), Amsterdam (2002) and Santiago de Compostela (2005). See the NRG4 website. |
| PhD defence |
Diffusional change in the English system of complementation:
Gerunds, participles and for...to-infinitives
|
| 8 March 2008 |
Public defence of Hendrik De Smet's doctoral dissertation.
President of the jury: Nicole Delbecque.
Jury members: Hubert Cuyckens (supervisor), Olga Fischer (co-supervisor, Universiteit van Amsterdam), Liesbet Heyvaert, Hans Smessaert, Teresa Fanego (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela). |
| PhD defence |
The synchronic layering of size noun and type noun constructions in English
|
| 20 December 2007 |
Public defence of Lieselotte Brems's doctoral dissertation.
President of the jury: William Van Belle.
Jury members: Kristin Davidse (supervisor), Hubert Cuyckens (co-supervisor), Lieven Vandelanotte, Karin Aijmer (Göteborg University), Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool). |
| PhD defence |
English adjectives of comparison:
Lexical and grammaticalized uses
|
| 16 December 2006 |
Public defence of Tine Breban's doctoral dissertation.
President of the jury: Michèle Goyens.
Jury members: Kristin Davidse (supervisor), Hubert Cuyckens, Nicole Delbecque, Walter De Mulder (Universiteit Antwerpen), David Denison (University of Manchester). |
| Conference |
Tweede Cognitieve Linguïstiekdag |
| 15 December 2006 |
Second Dutch-Flemish Cognitive Linguistics Day organized jointly by
the University of Antwerp's Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology (CGCT), the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Lessius Hogeschool, and the Leuven research units Creativity, Humor and Imagery in Language (CHIL), Functional, Cognitive and Descriptive Linguistics: English, Spanish, Typology (FEST), of which FLL is one of the research groups, and Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) |
| Conference |
Varieties of voice - Third international BAAHE conference |
| 7-9 December 2006 |
BAAHE conference organized jointly the Interfaculty Institute of Modern Languages, the English literature section and the FLL research unit of the University of Leuven and devoted to the
role played by voice in various fields of English studies
(literature, linguistics, and English language teaching). See the conference
website. |
| Guest lecture |
Dutch-Aboriginal contact 1606-1756: Records, memories and romances (Peter Sutton) |
| 5 April 2006 |
Guest lecture by Peter Sutton (University of Adelaide & South Australian Museum) for the FLL research group. |
| Guest lecture |
The archaeo-linguistics of migration (Patrick McConvell) |
| 13 December 2005 |
Guest lecture by Patrick McConvell (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) for the Department of Linguistics at the invitation of the FLL research group. |
| PhD defence |
Nominal reference-point
constructions:
Possessive and esphoric NPs in English
|
| 17 October 2005 |
Public defence of Peter
Willemse's doctoral dissertation.
President of the jury: William Van Belle.
Jury members: Kristin Davidse (supervisor),
Liesbet Heyvaert (co-supervisor), Kurt Feyaerts,
Theo Janssen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), John Taylor (University
of Otago). |
| Guest lecture |
The mental corpus (John Taylor) |
| 30 June 2005 |
Guest lecture by John Taylor (University of Otago) for the Department of Linguistics at the invitation of the FLL research group. |
| Guest lecture |
Telling modalities and interrogatives (Eirian Davies) |
| 22 March 2005 |
Guest lecture by Eirian Davies (University of London) for the Department of Linguistics at the invitation of the FLL research group. |
| PhD defence |
Types of speech and thought
representation in English:
Syntagmatic structure, deixis and expressivity, semantics
|
| 21 March 2005 |
Public defence of Lieven
Vandelanotte's doctoral dissertation.
President of the jury: Michèle Goyens.
Jury members: Kristin Davidse (supervisor),
Barbara Dancygier (University of British Columbia), Eirian C. Davies
(Royal Holloway, University of London), Nicole Delbecque, William
Van Belle. |
| Guest lecture |
Conditional clauses and counterfactuality (Barbara Dancygier) |
| 19 March 2005 |
Guest lecture by Barbara Dancygier (University of British Columbia) for the Department of Linguistics and the interdisciplinary research unit (linguistics, philosophy, psychology) on conditionals at the invitation of the FLL research group. |
| Conference |
From ideational to interpersonal:
Perspectives from grammaticalization |
| 10-12 February 2005 |
Conference convened by Hubert
Cuyckens, Kristin Davidse and Anne-Marie
Simon-Vandenbergen (Ghent University) and devoted to the study of
semantic-pragmatic change in grammaticalization, from "ideational"
to "interpersonal" (Halliday and Hasan 1976) or from "propositional"
to "expressive" (Traugott 1989). See the FITIGRA
website. |
| Lecture |
Een constructionele benadering
van redeweergave in het Engels (Lieven Vandelanotte) |
| 8 December 2004 |
Presentation of the results of Lieven
Vandelanotte's PhD research into speech or thought representation
constructions in English for the research groups Functional
Linguistics Leuven and Cognitive
and Applied Spanish Linguistics. |
| Edited journal issue |
Grounding and headedness
in the noun phrase |
| 29 June 2004 |
Presentation of the special issue of Functions
of Language (11.1) edited and introduced by Jean-Christophe
Verstraete and comprising articles by Richard A. Hudson, Matthew
S. Dryer, Ronald W. Langacker, and Georges Kleiber. See the Benjamins
website for information and abstracts. |
| Lecture |
Een grammaticale schets van
het Umpithamu (Cape York) (Jean-Christophe Verstraete) |
| 4 June 2004 |
Lecture by Jean-Christophe
Verstraete presenting a grammatical sketch of Umpithamu, an as
yet undescribed Pama-Nyungan language from Cape York (Australia).
The presentation focuses on the sociolinguistic context, the kinship
system, the phonology and the development of a practical orthography,
case marking, the pronominal system, and word order. The presentation
includes a demonstration of the recently completed multimedial dictionary
compiled using software developed by Chris Manning (Stanford U). |
| PhD seminar |
De semantiek-pragmatiek interface
in diachroon en cross-linguïstisch perspectief (Hendrik De Smet
and Jean-Christophe Verstraete) |
| 27 May 2004 |
PhD seminar taught as part of PhD programme
of the Department of Linguistics by Hendrik De
Smet and Jean-Christophe Verstraete
on the semantics-pragmatics interface in a diachronic and crosslinguistic
perspective. |
| Guest lecture |
English grammar and the corpus
revolution (Douglas Biber) |
| 9 March 2004 |
Guest lecture for the Centre for Research
into Grammatical and Lexical Meaning by Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona
University) at the invitation of the FLL research group. |
| Guest lecture |
Verbal uses of comitative
markers in Australian languages (Bill McGregor) |
| 26 November 2003 |
Guest lecture for the Centre for Research
into Grammatical and Lexical Meaning by Bill McGregor (Aarhus University)
at the invitation of the FLL research group. |
| Guest lecture |
Compromising transitivity:
the case of reciprocals (Nick Evans) |
| 21 October 2003 |
Guest lecture for the Centre for Research
into Grammatical and Lexical Meaning by Nick Evans (University of
Melbourne), presenting a paper on reciprocals co-authored by Alice
Gaby and Rachel Nordlinger, at the invitation of the FLL research
group. |
| Book publication |
Cognitive approaches to lexical
semantics |
| 29 September 2003 |
Publication of the volume on cognitive
approaches to lexical semantics edited by Hubert
Cuyckens, René Dirven, and John R. Taylor. This collected
volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive
lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy
vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer
simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue
than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives
on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally
accepted notions about the radial network structure of categories
are questioned in papers on the development of word meaning in child
language acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the
interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the relationship
between word meanings and the contexts in which the words are encountered.
For more information, see the Mouton
de Gruyter website. |
| Book publication |
Motivation in language: Studies
in honor of Günter Radden |
| 25 August 2003 |
Publication of the volume on motivation
in language edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas
Berg, René Dirven, and Klaus-Uwe Panther. This volume contributes
to the now one-century old question, 'Is the link between forms and
meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or
is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?' The greater part
of the papers (Sections 1–3) analyze linguistic phenomena in
which not arbitrary, but cognitively motivated links between form
and meaning play a role. As such, the contributions in Section 1 examine
selected aspects of motivation in the continuum between lexicon and
grammar; the contributions in Section 2 study the factors underlying
the range of (semantic) variants that attach to a particular lexical
item; and papers in Section 3 look at motivating factors in linguistic
items situated in and conceptualizing the socio-cultural domain. A
smaller set of papers in Section 4 point to the role which learner
motivation and attitudinal motivation may play in applied linguistics
domains.
For more information, see the Benjamins
website. |
| Theme session |
Comparing functional and
cognitive models of grammar |
| 24 July 2003 |
Theme session at the 8th International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference (University of La Rioja, Spain) convened
by Jan Nuyts (Antwerp University) and Jean-Christophe
Verstraete. |
| Book publication |
A cognitive-functional approach
to nominalization in English |
| 21 July 2003 |
Publication of Liesbet
Heyvaert's monograph on nominalization in English. This book presents
a systematic account of the constructional mechanisms that underlie
deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive
contribution by discussing a number of nominalization systems in detail
(i.e. deverbal -er nominalizations, gerundive nominals and
that-nominalizations). The main theoretical motif in it is that nominalization
strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach
because nominalizations are basically functional re-classifications
of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. It is shown that,
once the specific nominal strategy which the reclassified unit adopts
(e.g. in terms of determination) is identified, interesting correlations
between the internal-functional properties of the nominalization and
its meaning are revealed.
For more information, see the Mouton
de Gruyter website. |
| Guest lecture |
Exploring Cora postpositions
(Eugene Casad) |
| 10 July 2003 |
Guest lecture for the Centre for Research
into Grammatical and Lexical Meaning by Eugene Casad (Summer Institute
of Linguistics) at the invitation of the FLL research group. |
| Guest lecture |
Idioms, light-verbs, arguments
and semantic roles: A systemic functional approach (Gordon Tucker) |
| 23 May 2003 |
Guest lecture for the Centre for Research
into Grammatical and Lexical Meaning by Gordon Tucker (Cardiff University)
at the invitation of the FLL research group. |
| PhD seminar |
Het raakvlak tussen functionele
en cognitieve benaderingen in grammatica (Liesbet Heyvaert) |
| 21 March 2003 |
PhD seminar taught as part of PhD programme
of the Department of Linguistics by Liesbet Heyvaert
on the interface between functional and cognitive-linguistic approaches
in grammatical description. |
| Lecture |
De rol van irrealis-modus
in samengestelde zinnen in Australische talen (Jean-Christophe Verstraete) |
| 15 January 2003 |
Lecture by Jean-Christophe
Verstraete on the role of irrealis mood in coordinate sentences
in Australian languages. |
