Position: Professor of English linguistics

Research unit: English and Contrastive Linguistics

GRAMIS research: Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen works on discourse markers and modal adverbs in English and from a cross-linguistic perspective. She relies on monolingual and translation corpora, both synchronic and diachronic. The languages included in the contrastive research are Germanic and Romance.

Homepage: http://www.english.ugent.be/annemarievandenbergen

e-mail: Annemarie.Vandenbergen at ugent.be

Dominique Willems

Position: Professor of French linguistics

Research unit: French Linguistics (syntax, semantics and pragmatics), Contragram

GRAMIS research: Dominique Willems works on the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers in French and from a contrastive perspective (Romance and Germanic languages). On the theoretical level her interest focuses on the syntax-semantics interface and the adequate treatment of meaning extensions.

Homepage: http://www.francais.ugent.be

e-mail: Dominique.Willems at ugent.be

Tine Defour

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research unit: Department of English Linguistics

GRAMIS research: Tine Defour studies the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification of “markers of expectation” (such as of course, actually, in fact) from a historical perspective. The focus lies on developments in the English language but the research also forms part of a contrastive study which compares English results with French developments in function and meaning. The data are based on synchronic and diachronic corpus collections.

Homepage: http://www.english.ugent.be/tinedefour

e-mail: Tine.Defour at ugent.be

Ulrique D'Hondt

Position: PhD Researcher

Research unit: Department of French Linguistics

GRAMIS research: Ulrique D'Hondt works on the grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of adverbia and indefinita. She studies these processes for both word classes within a bipartite contrastive perspective (French-Portuguese and French-English). The approach is corpus-based and considers both synchronic and diachronic processes.

Homepage: http://www.francais.ugent.be/personnels

e-mail: Ulrique.DHondt at ugent.be