Kristin Davidse has a BA in Religious Sciences (1976)
and an MA in Germanic Languages (1981) from the University of Leuven.
She is also an alumna of the University of Sydney, where she was
introduced to Systemic Functional Linguistics by M.A.K. Halliday
and Jim Martin and was awarded an MA in Applied Linguistics (1985).
Halliday also supervised, together with Emma Vorlat, her Ph.D. in
Linguistics on the Categories of Experiential Grammar,
awarded by the University of Leuven in 1991. In that year she was
given a permanent appointment at the Leuven Linguistics Department.
As a follow-up to her doctorate, she published mainly about the
semantics of constructions (transitive/ergative, existential, ditransitive,
cleft, middle, etc). In recent years, she has turned her attention
to the grammar of the noun phrase, and to phenomena of emergent
grammar and grammaticalization in the NP. She was co-founder and
co-editor during ten years of the journal Functions of Language
(published by Benjamins). She co-organized the international
conference From Ideational to Interpersonal: Perpectives from
Grammaticalization (FITIGRA)
at the University of Leuven, and is also one of the co-organizers
of the 2008 Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization,
to be held in Leuven.
In recent years, she has been active in university service with
terms as
- President of the Publication Committee of the University Foundation
Belgium (2004-2008)
- representative of the humanities in the bureau of the Research
Council of KULeuven (2006- )
- member of the Language Committee of the National Research Foundation
Flanders (FWO) (2010- ) |
