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TINE BREBAN

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Tine Breban is a postdoctoral researcher working on the grammar of the English noun phrase. Her current focus lies with determiners and the interaction of adjectives and determiners in the NP. Her research combines the synchronic modeling of semantic and morpho-syntactic patterns with diachronic hypotheses of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification.She obtained her PhD under the supervision of Kristin Davidse in December 2006. In 2010, she published her first monograph English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses in Mouton's Topics in English Linguistics Series. In 2008-2009 she received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue her research at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Stanford University. In 2011 she was awarded an Yggdrasil scholarship by the Research Council of Norway to conduct a one-month research project at the University of Stavanger. In 2011-2012 and 2012-2013, she combines her research project in Leuven (related to the GOA project The Multiple Functional Load of grammatical signs in text construction and language change) with a Humboldt Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• 2002: MA in Language and Literature: Germanic Languages (English and Dutch), University of Leuven
• 2006: PhD in Language and Literature: Germanic Languages (English Linguistics)
• 2007 (January-September): postdoctoral researcher of the Research Council of the University of Leuven
• 2007 -2010: postdoctoral researcher of the Research Foundation-Flanders
• 2010-2011: postdoctoral researcher of the Research Council of the University of Leuven
• 2011-2013: Humboldt fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leuven

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Tine Breban
University of Leuven
Department of Linguistics
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
PO Box 3308
B-3000 Leuven (Belgium)
Phone
+32 16 32 48 09
Fax
+32 16 32 47 67
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