Tenured assistant professor

• Coordinator Research Unit FEST (Functional and Cognitive Linguistics. English, Spanish, Typology)
• Conference Manager Societas Linguistica Europaea
• Member of the LOT Curriculum Commission ( and coordinator LOT Summer School 2011)

Biographical information
Teaching
Research
Publications
Miscellany

Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, B-3000 Leuven
room 01.22
tel.: +32 16 324765
fax: +32 16 324767
email: cf. data bank of the K.U.Leuven staff

Bachelor in Linguistics and Literature

• F0AP0A: Spaanse taalkunde I (Spanish linguistics I)
• V0AP0A: Spaanse taalkunde I (Spanish linguistics I; Campus Kortrijk)
• F0AP5A: Spaans: Taal & Tekst I (Spanish: proficiency I)
• F0AP1A: Spaanse taalkunde II (Spanish linguistics II)
• V0AP1A: Spaanse taalkunde II (Spanish linguistics II; Campus Kortrijk)
• F0AP8A: Spaans: Taal & Tekst II (Spanish: proficiency II)
• F0AP2A: Spaanse taalkunde III (Spanish linguistics III)

Master of Linguistics and Literature

• F0SV0A: Spaanse taalkunde: topics in historische grammatica (Spanish linguistics: topics in historical grammar)

Máster en Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos

• F0TY8A: La diversidad lingüística en la Península Ibérica y en América Latina (Linguistic diversity in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America)

Research topics

• Modality and Evidentiality in Discourse
• Spoken and written Spanish
• Grammaticalization and Subjectification

(Co)supervision Ph.D.

• L. Van Gorp: ¿Por qué el español dispone de una docena de verbos pseudo-copulativos para expresar la noción de cambio? Hacia una explicación cognitiva-funcional.
• D. Kimps: English variable tag questions: a systematic typology of their interpersonal meanings

(Co)supervision Project Research

• English variable tag questions: a systematic typology of their interpersonal meanings
  
• Towards a discourse-functional analysis of the expression of epistemic stance in Court in Cordoba Spanish
• Why does Spanish have a dozen pseudocopulas to express change-of-state? Towards a cognitive-functional account

Scholarship FWO (2007-2010)

Modal adverbs in conversational Spanish: a functional account of their embedding in discourse.

Articles in international reviewed journals
Books
   - as author
   - as editor
Articles in or parts of books
Articles in other academic journals
Papers at international conferences and symposia
Doctoral dissertation
Preprints
Other publications
Guest lectures
Interviews on Iraq

Articles in international reviewed journals

• Cornillie, Bert. (2010). "On conceptual semantics and discourse functions: The case of Spanish modal adverbs in informal conversation". Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8:2. 300–320. (Amsterdam - Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2009). "Evidentiality and epistemic modality: on the close relationship of two different categories". Functions of Language. (Amsterdam - Philadelphia: John Benjamins) 16 (1): 44-32.
• Cornillie, Bert & Nicole Delbecque (2008). "Speaker commitment: back to the speaker. Evidence from Spanish alternations". Belgian Journal of Linguistics. 22: 37-62.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2007). "On the continuum between lexical and grammatical evidentiality. Evidence from Spanish". Italian Journal of Linguistics. 19 (1). 108-129.
• Cornillie, Bert (2005). "A paradigmatic view of Spanish amenazar 'threaten' and prometer 'promise'". Folia Linguistica. 39 (3-4): 385-415. (Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter)
• Cornillie, Bert (2005). "Agentivity and subjectivity in Spanish prometer 'promise' and amenazar 'threaten'. A study of constructional and diatopical variation". Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana. Vol 3. n° 5.
• Cornillie, Bert (2005, in press). "Reference point and subjectification in grounding predications: the case of the Spanish modals". Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Vol. 3.
• Hans Smessaert, Bert Cornillie, Dagmar Divjak and Karel van den Eynde (2005). "Degrees of clause integration. From endotactic to exotactic subordination in Dutch". Linguistics . 43 (3). 471-529.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2004). "The shift from lexical to subjective readings of Spanish prometer 'to promise' and amenazar 'to threaten'. A corpus-based account". Pragmatics.14 (1). 1-30.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2003). "Subjetivización, predicaciones de anclaje y los modales españoles" . Foro Hispánico. n° 24. 21-34.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2001). "Entre teoría y descripción. Artículo-reseña de Hella Olbertz. (1998). Verbal Periphrases in a Functional Grammar of Spanish". Foro Hispánico. n°19. 105-116.
• Cornillie, Bert. "Linguistic Diversity as a Categorical Imperative. Review article on Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove. (2000). Linguistic Genocide in Education Or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?". Orbis, Revue internationale de documentation linguistique. (in press)

Books

As author

• Cornillie, Bert. 2007. Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries. A Cognitive-functional Approach. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics Series)

As editor

• Delbecque, Nicole & Cornillie, Bert (eds.). 2007. On Interpreting Construction Schemas. From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (Trends in Linguistics Series)
• Cornilllie, Bert & Nicole Delbecque (eds) (2006). Topics in Subjectification and Modalization. Amsterdam - Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Special issue of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics)
• Athanasiadou, Angeliki, Costas Canakis & Bert Cornillie (eds.). (2006) Subjectification: Various paths to Subjectivity. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Cornillie, Bert & Hans Declercq (eds). (2003). In de schaduw van Saddam. Het Koerdische experiment in Irak. Amsterdam - Leuven: Bulaaq - Van Halewyck.
• Cornillie, Bert & Paul Vanden Bavière (eds). (2001). De Koerden tussen Europa en Turkije. Antwerpen: EPO.

Articles in or parts of books

• Cornillie, Bert (2010, in press). "An interactional approach to evidential and epistemic adverbs in Spanish conversation". In Gabriele Diewald & Elena Smirnova (eds). The linguistic realization of evidentiality in European Languages. Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 309-330.
• Cornillie, Bert, Walter De Mulder, Tine Van Hecke. Dieter Vermandere. (accepted). “The grammaticalization of the Romance modals”. In Björn Hansen, Ferdinand de Haan & Johan van der Auwera (eds.). Modals in the Languages of Europe. Berlin - New York. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Cornillie, Bert. (accepted). "Subjectification or how to make pragmatics semantic. The case of Spanish amenazar 'to threaten' and prometer 'to promise'". In Turner, Ken. Making Semantics Pragmatic. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Cornillie, Bert (accepted). "The Conceptual Structure of Weak/Strong Modal Qualifications in Spanish". In Seana Coulson (ed.). Language in action. Stanford: Centre for the Study of Language and Information.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2008). "On the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectivity of Spanish evidential (semi-)auxiliaries". In Seoane, Elena & María José López Couso (eds.). Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization. Amsterdam - Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 55-76.
• Cornillie, Bert (2006). "Constructional and Conceptual considerations on the subjectivity of English and Spanish modals". In Athanasiadou et allii. 177-205.
• Cornillie, Bert (2005). "Subjectivity in esperar-based constructions". In Marmaridou, Sophia, Kiki Nikiforidou & Eleni Antonopoulou (eds). Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Perspectives into the 21st Century. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 77-96.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2003)."De Koerdische taal in Irak". In Cornillie, Bert & Hans Declercq (eds). 58-79.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2003)."Irak en het regionale spanningsveld". In Cornillie, Bert & Hans Declercq (eds). 186-215.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2003). "Turkije en zijn Koerdische achtertuin". In Cornillie, Bert & Hans Declercq (eds). 216-234.
• Cornillie, Bert & Hans Declercq (2003)."Inleiding en chronologie". In Cornillie, Bert & Hans Declercq (eds). 9-26.
• Cornillie, Bert (2003). "De Iraaks-Koerdische leiders tussen Bagdad en de buurlanden". In Ferho, Derwich M. & Lieve Driesen (eds.). Irak en de internationale context. Brussel: Koerdisch Instituut.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2002)."Over Turkije, Koerden en de Europese Unie". In Ferho, Derwich M. & Lieve Driesen (eds.). Turkije, klaar voor de Europese Unie? De Turkse realiteit getoetst aan de Criteria van Kopenhagen. Brussel: Koerdisch Instituut. 29-35.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2001). "De Koerden tussen het kemalisme en het pan-Turkisme". In Cornillie, Bert & Paul Vanden Bavière (eds.). 135-166.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2001). "Het Turkse Nationale Programma voor Actie (2001). Turkije, van kemalistische natiestaat naar Europese lidstaat?". In Cornillie, Bert & Paul Vanden Bavière (eds.). 39-87.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2001). "Hacia una clasificación sintáctico-semántica de los verbos con infinitivo en español". In Veiga, Alexandre & María Rosa Pérez, Lengua española y estructuras gramaticales. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Anexo 48 de Verba). 99-114.

Articles in other academic journals

• Cornillie, Bert. (2001). Review: "Wright, Sue (ed.). (2000) French - an accommodating language?/ Le français: langue d'accueil?" The Linguist List. 28/03/2001.
• Cornillie, Bert. (1999). "Revistas oficiales en la Cuba de los 60. Unión y La Gaceta de Cuba, una multiplicidad discursiva". Discurso, Revista Internacional de Semiótica y Teoría literaria. 12/13. 123-150.

Papers at international conferences and symposia

• Innsbruck. 1-4/09/2007. XXV congrès international de la Société de Linguistique Romane. "La noción de compromiso del hablante: una reflexión crítica". (met Nicole Delbecque en Bie Keersmaekers)
• Joensuu. 29/08-01/09/2007. Functionalism in Linguistics. "Epistemic adverbs in conversational Spanish"
• Göteborg. 9-13/07/2007. International Pragmatics Conference. "Source-evidentiality vs. evidential (inter)subjectivity. The case of Spanish parecer 'to seem'".
• Antwerpen. 10-13/01/2007. The notion of Commitment in Linguistics. "Speaker commitment: back to the speaker". (met Nicole Delbecque en Bie Keersmaekers)
• San Diego. 3-5/11/2006. Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language: Language in Action. "The Conceptual Structure of Weak/Strong Modal Qualifications in Spanish".
• Valencia. 7-10/09/2005. Formal, functional and typological perspectives on discourse and grammar. "On the evidential/deontic/epistemic dimension of Spanish and English complement clauses without que/that".
• Santiago de Compostela. 17-21/07/2005. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3. "On the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectivity of Spanish evidential and epistemic modal (semi-)auxiliairies".
• Riva del Garda. 10-15/07/2005. 9th International Pragmatics Conference. "Subjectification or how to make pragmatics semantic. The case of Spanish amenazar 'to threaten' and prometer 'to promise'".
• Bordeaux. 19-21/05/2005. From Gram to Mind. Grammar as cognition. "Subjectification as a cognitive semantic operation. On Spanish amenazar 'to threaten' and prometer 'to promise'".
• Leuven. 10-12/02/2005. From Ideational to Interpersonal. Perspectives from grammaticalization. "A corpus-based analysis of Spanish evidential and epistemic modal (semi-)auxiliairies. On textual and interpersonal aspects of grammaticalization".
• Utrecht. 17/12/2004. Coglingdag. "Subjectificatie en attenuatie bij de Spaanse equivalenten van dreigen en beloven".
• Leipzig. 8-11/10/2003. VI. Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Hispánica. "Los usos epistémicos de prometer y amenazar con".
• Lyon. 4-7/09/2003. Linguistics and Data. Types of data and language comparison. "Contextual parameters for Spanish quasi-modal constructions with prometer 'promise' and amenazar con 'threaten'".
• Logroño. 20-25/07/2003. 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. "Absence of infinitive as a criterion for subjectivity in Spanish modals".
• Potsdam. 22-25/07/2002. Rethinking language and mind. "Where does the subjectivity of the Spanish quasi-modals come from?".
• Athens. 21-24/05/2002. International Linguistics Conference. Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Perspectives into the 21st Century. "Changing modality in Spanish: the case of esperar".
• Valencia. 15-17/05/2002. III Congreso Internacional de la Asociación española de Lingüística Cognitiva. "Grados de involucramiento del locutor en construcciones cuasi-modales españolas".
• Leuven. 28-31/08/2001. International conference. Towards the integration of cognitive, historical and cultural approaches to language. "On mental spaces, force dynamics and syntactic cohesion in the Spanish sequence {verb [+/-prep] + inf}.
• Lugo. 25-28/09/2000. Congreso Internacional de Lingüística: Léxico & Gramática. "Hacia una clasificación sintáctico-semántica de los verbos con infinitivo en español".

Doctoral dissertation

• Cornillie, Bert. (2004). Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Spanish (semi-)auxiliaries. A functional-pragmatic and cognitive-linguistic account. Leuven: doctoral dissertation.

Preprints

• Cornillie, Bert. (2003). "The syntax of subjectification in Spanish quasi-modal constructions". Pre-print n° 198. Departement Linguïstiek. K.U.Leuven.
• Cornillie, Bert. (2002). "Subjectivity in esperar-based constructions". Preprint n° 191. Departement Linguïstiek. K.U.Leuven.
• Cornillie, Bert, Dagmar Divjak, Karel van den Eynde, Hans Smessaert & José Tummers. (2001). "From endotactic to epitactic subordination in Dutch". KU Leuven. Departement Linguïstiek. Preprint n° 179.

Other publications

• Cornillie, Bert (2005). "Koerden en sjiieten matigen elkaar". Interview met Bert Cornillie over het Irak na de verkiezingen. De Morgen. 16 februari 2005.
• Cornillie, Bert (2005). "Uma grande mudança para o Oriente Médio". O Globo On Line (São Paulo). 2/02/2005.
• Cornillie, Bert (2004). Analyse. "Imagopolitiek en improvisatie in het Iraakse moeras". Nieuwsblad op Zondag. 12/12/2004.
• Cornillie, Bert & Hans Declercq. (2003). "Geef de Iraakse bevolking een perspectief". De Standaard. 11/01/2003. ["Give the Iraqi people a future perspective"]
• Cornillie, Bert (2003). "Een nieuw Afghanistan is niet veraf". De Standaard. 22/04/2003. ["A new Afghanistan is looming"]
• Cornillie, Bert & Hans Declercq. (2001). "Koerden vieren Nieuwjaar tussen de tanks". De Koerden. n°2. ["Kurds celebrate New Year amid Tanks"]
• Cornillie, Bert. (2000). "Review: Dirk Vandersypen (1999). Mañana, 25 jaar omzwervingen door Latijns-Amerika". Romaneske. 25. n° 2, & in Romaniac. 20. n° 80. 34-9.
• Cornillie, Bert. (1999). "Review: Kristine Vanden Berghe (1999). Temas de historia y civilización latinoamericanas". Romaneske. 24. n° 1. 69-71.

Guest lectures

• Lessius Hogeschool. 29/03/2007. "Irak en het Midden-Oosten" in het Masterprogramma Journalistiek.
• Universiteit Derde Leeftijd Leuven. 17/04/2007. "Irak na Saddam Hoessein: prille democratie of machtsvacuüm?".
• Universität Freiburg. 6/07/2006. "Evidentiality in Spanish. The role of mode of knowing in the semantics of deber and tener que".
• CNRS - Lacito Parijs. 9/03/2006. "Sur la grammaticalisation des (semi-)auxiliaires épistémiques et évidentiels en espagnol parlé et écrit".
• Leef-Tijd Antwerpen (Lodewijk de Raet-stichting). 17/11/2005. "Irak na Saddam Hoessein: prille democratie of machtsvacuüm?".
• Vorming Plus Antwerpen. 16/11/2005. "Irak na Saddam Hoessein: prille democratie of machtsvacuüm?".
• Lund. 3/05/2005. Evidentiality: theoretical and applied. "Evidentiality and epistemic modality: on the fuzzy borders of two different categories".
• Actueel Denken en Leven. Brugge. 6/10/2004. "Het post-Saddam Irak en het Midden-Oosten". ["The post-Saddam Iraq and the Middle East"]
• Actueel Denken en Leven. Antwerpen. 20/10/2003. "Het post-Saddam Irak en het Midden-Oosten". ["The post-Saddam Iraq and the Middle East"]
• Oostkustacademie. Knokke. 22/08/2003. "Het nieuwe Irak, een oplossing voor de crisis in het Midden-Oosten?". ["The New Iraq, a solution for the crisis in the Middle East"]
• Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen. CIMIC. 6/05/2003. "In de schaduw van Saddam? Koerden en andere gemeenschappen in Noord-Irak". ["In the Shadow of Saddam: Kurds and othercommunities in Northern Iraq"]
• Cultuurcentrum Vooruit Gent. 22/04/2003. "Irak na de oorlog". ["Iraq after the war"]
• Universiteit Antwerpen. 10/03/2003. "Het semi-autonome Iraaks Koerdistan: federalisering van het Midden-Oosten of libanisering van Irak?". ["The semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan: Federalization of the Middle East or Libanization of Iraq"]
• Oxford University. 19/02/2003. "The syntax and semantics of Spanish quasi-modal constructions with prometer 'promise' and amenazar con 'threaten'".
• Leuven. 4/02/2003. "Debate with Mario Vargas Llosa on culture, politics and globalization".
• Brussels parlement. 2/12/2002. "De Iraaks-Koerdische leiders tussen Bagdad en de buurlanden". ["The Iraqi Kurdish leaders between Baghdad and the neighboring countries"]
• Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (Mexico). 15/01/2002. "Perspectiva y cohesión sintáctica en construcciones de infinitivo: verbos semi-mocales, cuasi-modales y modales".

Interviews on Iraq

• television news on VTM, Canvas and TV1
• newspapers De Morgen, De Standaard, Knack, Het Laatste Nieuws, Gazet van Antwerpen, P-Magazine, Dag Allemaal
• comments on Radio 1, Radio 4FM, Q-Music and Dutch radio stations
• television debates (Nachtwacht, Polspoel en Desmet)