FLL former members

FORMER SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW

William B. McGregor was appointed senior research fellow of the University of Leuven for one year (1998). During his time at the department, he contributed to the research projects on case and grammatical relations across languages and on the impact of syntactic variation. Publications resulting from this stay in Leuven appeared in a thematic issue of Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology and in the volume on the nominative and accusative and their counterparts in the Department's book series Case and grammatical relations across languages (Benjamins). Finally, he taught a series of lectures presenting a Semiotic Grammar approach to the nominal group within the MA course devoted to the nominal group (English Linguistics: Theoretical Linguistics).
William B. McGregor currently holds the Chair in Linguistics at Aarhus University (Denmark).

Publications

(1998) with K. Buyse, P. Campe, K. Davidse, N. Delbecque, and A. Laffut. Introduction to thematic issue "The impact of syntactic variation: bare nominals versus prepositional phrases". Leuvense Bijdragen (Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology) 87 (3-4): 273-280.
(1998) "Optional" ergative marking in Gooniyandi revisited: implications to the theory of marking. Leuvense Bijdragen (Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology) 87 (3-4): 491-534.
(1998) The oblique alternation in Gooniyandi. Leuvense Bijdragen (Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology) 87 (3-4): 535-571.
(2002) Ergative and accusative patterning in Warrwa. In K. Davidse and B. Lamiroy (eds.) The Nominative & Accusative and their counterparts (Case and grammatical relations across languages 4). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 285–317.

FORMER RESEARCHERS

Ellen Aspeslagh worked as a teaching assistant in English proficiency from October 2001 until September 2007.
Ellen Aspeslagh is currently an EFL lecturer at the Karel de Grote Hogeschool and the Hogeschool Antwerpen (both members of the Antwerp University Association).

Publications

(1999) Language as ideology: Transitivity and ergativity in the female voices of Virginia Woolf's The Waves. PALA: The Poetics and Linguistics Association. Occasional Papers N° 10.

Sara Geyskens worked as a teaching assistant in English proficiency during the academic year 1997-1998. During this time she also prepared the publication, together with Kristin Davidse, of the main results of her MA thesis on the ergativization of intransitives.
Sara Geyskens is currently an ESP lecturer at the Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg (a member of the K.U.Leuven Association).

Publications

(1998) with K. Davidse. Have you walked the dog yet? The ergative causativization of intransitives. WORD 49 (2): 155-180.

Dirk Noël worked in the FLL research group from October 2005 to August 2006, first as a guest lecturer, standing in for Kristin Davidse during her sabbatical leave, and subsequently as a part-time researcher. During this time he prepared an article on diachronic construction grammar.
Dirk Noël currently teaches in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong.

Publications

(2007) Diachronic construction grammar and grammaticalization theory. Functions of Language 14 (2): 177-202.

Nele Olivier worked as a project researcher on COLLEX (A collocation-based approach to the acquisition of lexical competence in English) and COLLEX-BIZ (Learning collocational and lexicogrammatical patterns in Business English) from 2003 to 2006. During her time on these projects she also prepared the publication, together with Kristin Davidse, of the main results of her MA thesis on middle constructions with mental and verbal predicates.
Nele Olivier is currently an ESP lecturer at the Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende (a member of the K.U.Leuven Association).

Publications

(2005) with K. Davidse. The middle voice with mental and verbal predicates in English and Dutch. Leuvense Bijdragen (Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology) 94: 189-234.
(2007) with L. Brems, K. Davidse, D. Speelman and H. Cuyckens. Pattern-learning and pattern-description: An integrated approach to proficiency and research for students of English. In E. Hidalgo , L. Quereda and J. Santana (eds.) Corpora in the foreign language classroom. Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC). Amsterdam: Rodopi. 221-236.
(2008) with K. Davidse. English middles with mental and verbal predicates: Towards a typology. English Text Construction 1 (2): 169-197.

Christopher Shank

Wim Vandenberghe was appointed to the project Participants versus circumstances (NB/00/8, n° A5726) from January to April 2001. During this time he prepared the publication of the main results of his MA thesis on setting constructions.
Wim Vandenberghe currently works as a freelance translator in Sweden.

Publications

(2001) Instigative setting-constructions. Leuvense Bijdragen (Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology) 90 (3-4): 365-390.