Position: Research Fellow at FRS-FNRS, Professor of General Linguistics

Research unit: Center for Text and Discourse Studies

GRAMIS research: Liesbeth Degand works on the relationship between grammaticalization, pragmatica-lizaton and (inter)subjectification. She focuses on the study of discourse markers and connectives, mainly in the causal domain, both in speech and in writing.  Her language specific interests go to Dutch and French.

Homepage: http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/lingne/Degand/

e-mail: liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be

Liesbeth Mortier

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Center for Text and Discourse Studies

GRAMIS research: Liesbeth Mortier works on the grammaticalization and subjectification of discourse markers, with a (preliminary) focus on markers of contrast, and from a contrastive (French-Dutch) perspective.

Homepage:

e-mail: Liesbeth.Mortier at uclouvain.be

Benjamin Fagard

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Lattice (CNRS/ENS/Paris 7) & Center for Text and Discourse Studies

GRAMIS research: Benjamin Fagard studies the grammaticalization of discourse markers and causal conjunctions in French and other Romance languages. He works on diachronic corpora, with texts ranging from the Middle Ages to modern times; the goal of this particular research project is to investigate the interaction between (inter)subjectification and grammaticalization paths.

Homepage: http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/pages-perso/benjamin-fagard/Benjamin-Fagard.html

e-mail: benjamin.fagard at ens.fr

Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul

Position: Assistant Professor of Dutch Language and Culture

Research unit: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (Utrecht University) & Université Catholique de Louvain

GRAMIS research:Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul works on the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification of Dutch discourse particles. She takes a diachronic
approach and studies connectives at different stages of the Dutch language.

Homepage:

e-mail: j.evers-vermeul at let.uu.nl

Catherine Bolly

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at FRS-FNRS

Research unit: Valibel – Discours et variation

GRAMIS research: Catherine Bolly works on two overlapping research areas, i.e. phraseology and grammaticalization, with a special focus on high-frequency verbs and parentheticals. Her main research examines the diachronic development and synchronic (multi-)functionality of multi-words discourse markers, both in written and spoken French.

Homepage: http://www.uclouvain.be/catherine.bolly

e-mail: catherine.bolly at uclouvain.be