Position: Professor of General and English Linguistics

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology

GRAMIS research: Johan van der Auwera works on the grammaticalization of modality and mood (especially the prohibitive) and the relation between grammaticalization and analogy. The approach is predominantly typological and when it is language specific, the focus is on Germanic and especially on English.

Homepage: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/vdauwera/index.html

e-mail: johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be

Jan Nuyts

Position: Professor of General and Dutch Linguistics

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology

GRAMIS research: Jan Nuyts works on grammaticali-zation and (especially) (inter)subjectification in modal expressions (not only grammatical/auxiliary forms, but also adverbial/adjectival forms and full verbs), predominantly in Dutch and other Germanic languages, both in a synchronic and a diachronic
perspective. And is concerned with the theoretical implications of grammaticalization and (inter)subjecti-fication for cognitive and functionalist models of the linguistic system and language processing.

Homepage: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/nuyts/default.html

e-mail: jan.nuyts at ua.ac.be

Frank Brisard

Position: Assistant Professor of English Linguistics

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology; IPrA Research Center

GRAMIS research: Frank Brisard works on the semantics and pragmatics of tense and aspect in English and other languages (French, Lingála), from a cognitive perspective.

Homepage: http://www.ua.ac.be/frank.brisard

e-mail: frank.brisard at ua.ac.be

Pieter Byloo

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology

GRAMIS research: Pieter Byloo works on grammati-calization and (inter)subjectivication of modal expressions and negation. He uses corpus data from Dutch and French.

Homepage:

e-mail: pieter.byloo at ua.ac.be

Ewa Fiuk

Position: PhD Researcher

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology; Centrum voor Nederlandse taal en spraak

GRAMIS research: Ewa Fiuk works on modality in Dutch.

Homepage:

e-mail: ewa.fiuk at ua.ac.be

Nada Gbegble

Position: PhD Researcher

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology

GRAMIS research: Nada Gbegble works on modality in Ewe.

Homepage:

e-mail: nada.gbeble at student.ua.ac.be

Dmitry Idiatov

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology

GRAMIS research: Dmitry Idiatov works on the grammaticalization of TAM and definiteness markers in African languages, with a focus on the Mande languages.

Homepage: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/dmitry.idiatov

e-mail: dmitry.idiatov at ua.ac.be

Tanja Mortelmans

Position: Assistant Professor of German Linguistics

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology

GRAMIS research: Tanja Mortelmans works on grammaticalization of modality and evidentiality in German.

Homepage: http://www.ua.ac.be/tanja.mortelmans

e-mail: tanja.mortelmans at ua.ac.be

Adeline Patard

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology

GRAMIS research: Adeline Patard works on the interaction between (grammatical) aspect and modality within a set of European languages (French, Spanish, Italian, English, German and Dutch).

Homepage: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/adeline.patard

e-mail: adeline_patard at hotmail.com

Daniël Van Olmen

Position: Postdoctoral researcher

Research unit: Center for Grammar, Cognition & Typology

GRAMIS research: Daniël Van Olmen works on the imperative in Dutch, English and German from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective.

Homepage:

e-mail: daniel.vanolmen at student.ua.ac.be