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Johan van der Auwera 1

Johan van der Auwera

CURRICULUM VITAE

Born in Lier, Belgium, April 12th 1953

Emeritus Professor of English and General Linguistics

University of Antwerp

GaP (Grammar and Pragmatics)

Prinsstraat 13, B-2000 Antwerpen, BELGIUM

Tel: +32-(0)3-2654588

Fax: +32-(0)3-2654566 [email protected] https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/johan-vanderauwera/my-website/

Office : Rodestraat 12, R205

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Kandidaat in de Germaanse Filologie (Nederlands - Engels) [Candidate in Germanic Philology (Dutch

- English)], University of Antwerp (UFSIA), Oct 1971 - June 1973, Great distinction (July 4 1973)

Licentiaat in de Germaanse Filologie (Engels - Linguistiek) B.A.in Germanic Philology (English -

Linguistics)], University of Antwerp (UIA), Oct 1973 - June 1975, Greatest Distinction (July 4 1975),

title thesis: Semantic and pragmatic presupposition

Kandidaat in de Filosofie [Candidate in Philosophy], University of Antwerp (UFSIA), Oct 1974 - Sept

1975, Distinction (Sept 12 1975)

Geaggregeerde voor het Hoger Secundair Onderwijs (Nederlands-Engels) [Teacher’s credential

(Dutch-English)], University of Antwerp (UIA), Oct 1973 - June 1975, Distinction (July 10 1975)

Doctor in de Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Germaanse Filologie [Ph.D. in Germanic Philology], University

of Antwerp (UIA), Greatest Distinction (July 1 1980), title thesis: Regaining speculative grammar -

Speech acts, logic, and focus

Geaggregeerde voor het Hoger Onderwijs, Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Germaanse Filologie [Habilitation

in Germanic Philology], University of Antwerp (UIA) (June 20 1990), title thesis: Coming to terms


Language skills:

very good: Dutch, English

good: French, German, Swedish

+ lower degrees of competence in other Germanic and Romance languages

restricted reading competence in Russian, extensive exposure to Latin and classical Greek, notions

of Thai (2 intensive BA level years) and Mandarin (evening classes)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Research Oct 1975 - Sept 1977: Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York, at the University of

California at Berkeley, Graduate Division

Dec 1983: Visiting Scholar, at Stanford University, Linguistics

Oct 1984 - March 1985: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, and Laureate of the Travel Grant

Competition of the Belgian Ministry of Education, at the University of Hannover, English Linguistics

April 1985 - Sept 1985: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, at the Max-Planck-Institut für

Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen

June-July 1991: Visiting scholar (Scientific agreement Flemish Community - CNRS), working group

RIVALC (Recherche interlinguistique sur les variations d’actance et leurs corrélats [Interlinguistic

research on valency variation and its correlates’]), CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique

[National Center of Scientific Research]), Paris

May 2004 - May 2010: Member of the working group “Vers une typologie des modalités” [Towards a

typology of modality], CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) [National Center of

Scientific Research]), Paris

Jan - July 2007: Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Linguistics Program

May - June 2011: Visiting Professor, University of Gothenburg, Dutch Linguistics

April 2012: Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, English Linguistics

July 2012: Visiting Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, English Linguistics

September 2016: Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, English Linguistics

Teaching Oct 1977 - June 1980: Predoctoral Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation, at the University

of Antwerp (UIA), Linguistics (GER)


Teaching:

“Presupposition” (30 hrs, 77-78), “English pragmatics” (30 hrs, 78-79, 79-80), “Inleiding tot de

Semantiek” [Introduction to Semantics] (10 hrs, 78-79, 79-80), “Field methods - Thai” (15 hrs, 79-

80)

Oct 1980 - Feb 1981: guest lecturer at the University of Cologne, German Institute

Teaching: “Semantik und Logik” [Semantics and Logic] (30 hrs)

March 1981 - Sept 1983: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation, at the

University of Antwerp (UIA), Linguistics (GER)

Teaching:

“Semantiek en Logica” [Semantics and Logic] (30 hrs, 81-82, 82-83), “Inleiding tot de Semantiek”

[Introduction to Semantics] (9 hrs, 81-82, 82-83), “Niet-Indo-Europese Linguistiek” [Non-Indo-

European Linguistics] (15 hrs, 81-82, 82-83)

Oct 1983 - Sept 1984: Lecturer Economic English, at the University of Antwerp (UFSIA), Business

Administration (360 hrs)

Oct 1985 - Sept 1997: Tenured Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation, at the University

of Antwerp (UIA), Linguistics (GER) (Oct 1985 - Sept 1991: Bevoegdverklaard navorser; Oct

1991 - Sept 1995: Onderzoeksleider; Oct 1995 - Sept 1997: Onderzoeksdirecteur)

Teaching:

“Semantiek en Logica” [Semantics and Logic] (30 hrs, 85-86, 87-88), “Inleiding tot de Semantiek”

[Introduction to Semantics] (9 hrs, 85-86, 86-87, 87-88, 88-89, 89-90, 90-91 - 6 hrs, 91-92, 92-93,

93-94, 94-95, 95-96, 96-97), “Niet-Indo-Europese Linguistiek” [Non-Indo-European Linguistics]

(15 hrs, 85-86, 86-87, 87-88, 88-89), “Syntaxis: De Relatiefzin” [Syntax: The Relative Clause] (30

hrs, 86-87), “De structuur van het Jiddisch” [The structure of Yiddish] (30 hrs, 88-89, 90-91, 92-

93, 94-95, 86-97), “Typologie en universaliën’ [Typology and universals] (30 hrs, 93-94, 94-95,

95-96, 96-97)

Oct 1997 - Sept 2018: Professor of English and General Linguistics, at the University of Antwerp (Oct

1997 - Sept 2000: Hoofddocent; Oct 2000 - Ma 2003: Hoogleraar; Apr 2003 - present: Gewoon

Hoogleraar)

Teaching:

“Linguïstische Beschrijving van het Engels” [Linguistic analysis of English] (30 hrs, annual 97-

05), “Inleiding tot de Semantiek en Pragmatiek” [Introduction to semantics and pragmatics] (30

hrs, annual 97-05), “Taaltypologie” [Linguistic typology] (30 hrs, annual, 97-; 45 hrs, annual 08-

), “The development of English” (30 hrs, annual, 97-), “English grammar: auxiliaries” (30 hrs,

biennial, 97-06; 45 hrs, biennial, 08-), “English as a Germanic language” (15 hrs, biennial, 97-06;

30 hrs, biennial 07-), “Englishes (15 hrs, biennial, 97-05; 30 hrs, biennial 07-), “English grammar:

complementation” (15 hrs, biennial, 98-04), “Negation” (15/30 hrs, biennial, 98-; 45 hrs, biennial

08-), “English Creoles” (15 hrs, biennial, 98-03)

April 3-14, 2006: Master Course “On the typology of modality”, University of Santiago de Compostela,

English Department

Fall 2006: Francqui Chair, University of Leuven, Linguistics (six lectures on linguistic typology)


March 25-28, 2008: Master Class “English from a typological point of view”, Complutense University

of Madrid, English department

May 25-29, 2009: Master Class “The typology of mood, modality and negation”, University of Palermo,

Linguistics department

March 14, 21 2015: Master Class “Typology”, Université Libre de Bruxelles

April 8-14, 2015: Doctoral seminar “Typology”, University of Roma III

October 2015: International Chair, Empirical Foundations of Language, Laboratoire d'Excellence,

Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Paris

September 26-30 2016: Master Class "English as a Germanic Language", Kyoto University

July 30 – August 4: Master Class "Negation", Academia Grammaticorum Salensis, Salos (Lithuania)

Nov 8 – 11 2018: Master Class "Modality and negation", University of Sonora, Hermosillo (Mexico)

Focus of research and teaching

Typology, Areal linguistics

English, Germanic and General Linguistics

Theoretical Linguistics: Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics, Morphology

LECTURES

Guest lectures

Six lectures on Linguistic Pragmatics, Catholic University of Louvain (KUL), November 7-9 1977

“On linguistic pragmatics”, State University of Ghent, “Communication and Cognition” group, Jan 4 1978

“On the non-truthfunctional word ‘hence’”, University of Stockholm, March 16 1978

“Semantic and pragmatic presupposition”, University of Uppsala, March 28 1978

“Presupposition”, University College Cardiff, April 19 1978

“Hence”, University of Warwick, April 28 1978

“Direct speech acts”, University of Göteborg, Sept 13 1978

“Disjunctions”, University of Stockholm, Feb 2 1982

“Vernieuwing in de taalkunde: pragmatiek” [New trends in linguistics: pragmatics], Centrum

Beroepsvervolmaking [Continuing Teacher Training Center], Antwerp, Dec 1 & 8 1982

“‘Misschien?’” [‘Maybe’], State University of Liège, Nov 18 1983

“What is linguistic pragmatics?”, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, May 21 1984

“Relative that”, University of Hannover, Dec 5 1984

“Relative Clauses”, University of Hannover, Jan 28 1985

“Relative that”, University of Heidelberg, May 3 1985

(_ & D. Kučanda) “Serbo-Croatian što: Pronoun or conjunction?”, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik,

Nijmegen, June 11 1985, and University of Amsterdam, Nov 8 1985


“Wat is een betrekkelijk voornaamwoord?” [What is a relative pronoun?], University of Antwerp (UIA), April 23

1986

“Actief en passief: twee problemen” [“Active and passive: two problems”], University of Amsterdam, Dec 7 1987

“Linguistic philosophy and philosophy of language”, Vesalius College, Brussels, March 15 1989

“Adverbial and adjectival participle uses”, “Dominant participles in English”, “Lazy determiners”; University of

Łodz, Poland, April 27-28 1989

“Heads and FG”, Universität zu Köln, June 21 1989

“Heads”, Free University of Amsterdam, Nov 27 1989

“Adverbs and particles of change in some languages of Europe”, The linguistics institute of Ireland, Dublin, June

8 1990

“On relative clauses”, The Amsterdam Summer University, Symposium on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam,

Aug17 1991

“al en nog in de talen van Europa” [“already and still in the languages of Europe”], Free University of Amsterdam,

March 30 1992

“Adverbials”, University of Amsterdam, Oct 11 1993

“schon, nicht mehr und noch nicht, noch” [“already, no longer and not yet, still”], Universität Hamburg, Dec 14

1993

“Phasal quantifiers: a typological perspective”, University of Constanz, Feb 8 1994

“Human language - the typological perspective”, Università di Torino, Dec 5 1995

“Een kwarteeuw pragmatiek: het geval van ‘conditional perfection’ [“A quarter century of pragmatics: the case

of ‘conditional perfection’”]”, University of Antwerp, Apr 26 1996

“Modality and negation in Hindi and Bengali” and “Standard Average European”, Central Institute of Indian

Languages, Mysore (India), Jan 13 1997

“Modality and negation in Hindi and Bengali”, University of Hyderabad (India), Jan 15 1997

“Typology in Europe”, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad (India), Jan 15 1997

“Grice is good for you”, Université Catholique de Lille, Ma 25 1997

“The languages of Europe”, Utrecht Summer School “European cultures and lifestyles”, July 14 1997

“On modality’s semantic map”, University of Amsterdam, Dec 12 1997

“On the semantic and pragmatic polyfunctionality of modal verbs”, Universität Freiburg, June 22 1998

“English as an exotic European language”, Utrecht Summer School “European cultures and lifestyles”, July 13

1998

“Areality in linguistic typology (with special reference to the problem of Standard Average European”,

International Summer School on Typology, Mainz Sept 1998

“On the semantic and pragmatic polyfunctionality of modal verbs”, “Europe as a linguistic area”, Vilnius Nov

1999

(_ & P. Umarani) “Modality in Tamil and Telugu”, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Jan 17 2001

(_ & N. Dobrushina) “Towards a typology of imperative-hortative systems”, Moscow Typological Association,

Moscow, Feb 14 2001

“From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-World”, Antwerp, April 18 2001

“Typology and areality”, Catholic University of Leuven, May 3 2001

“Standard Average European”, Utrecht Summer School “European cultures and lifestyles”, July 9 2001

“On the interaction of predicate and quantifier negation in Flemish”, Wayne State University, Detroit, April 17

2003

“Le cycle de Jespersen et l’interaction entre negation totale et negation partielle” [“Jespersen’s cycle and the

interaction between total and partial negation”], Université Lille III, May 9, 2003

“La modalité: bilan et perspectives” [“Modality : state of the art and perspectives”], LACITO (Langues et Cultures

de Tradition Orale) Research Group, Paris, June 13 2003

(_, E. Schalley & J. Nuyts) “Sur les auxiliaries et les adverbes de possibilité épistémique en slave” [“On auxiliaries

and adverbs of epistemic possibility in Slavonic”], LACITO (Langues et Cultures de Tradition Orale)

Research Group, Paris, April 14 2005

(_, E. Schalley & J. Nuyts) “Epistemic possibility in a Slavonic parallel corpus”, University of Vilnius, Lithuania,

May 2005

Lectures on Mood and Modality, Seminar on Morphology and Typology, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences,

Institute of the Lithuanian Language, May 2005

(_ & A. Ammann, with S. Kindt) “Modal polyfunctionality and Standard Average European”, University of Tartu,

Estonia, May 6, 2005

(_ & A. Ammann, with S. Kindt) “Modal polyfunctionality and Standard Average European”, University of Riga,


Latvia, May 9, 2005.

“Prohibitives: why two thirds of the world’s languages are like Mandarin”, Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China,

Sept 19, 2005; Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, Sept 22, 2005; Shantou

University, Shantou, China, Sept 23, 2005

(V. Gast & _) “Sur la modalité en tzotzil” [On modality in Tzotzil], LACITO (Langues et Cultures de Tradition

Orale) Research Group, Paris, October 13 2005

(_, E. Schalley & G. De Vogelaer) “Pojdëmte - on doubly conjugated verbs, conjugated conjunctions and

conjugated answer particles”, Universität Freiburg, Nov 8, 2006

(_, P. Kehayov & A. Vittrant) “Modality’s map revisited”, Princeton University, March 2, 2007

(_, P. Kehayov & A. Vittrant) “Acquisitive modality”, “English as a Standard Average European Language”,

University of Hong Kong, May 20, 22, 2008

(_, P. Kehayov & A. Vittrant) “Acquisitive modality”, “English as a Standard Average European Language”,

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, May 27, 28, 2008

(_, P. Kehayov & A. Vittrant) “Acquisitive modality”, University of Stockholm, May 27, 2008; Kyoto University,

July 15, 2008, Tokyo University, July 16, 2008, Tohoku University, July 17, 2008

“The Jespersen cycles”, Lethbridge University, April 29, 2009

“Indefinites: what Aristotle has already told us”, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, June 23, 2009

(_, D. Noël & A. De Wit) “On the need (to)’s of the Asian Englishes”, University of Hong Kong, Oct 20, 2009

“Acquisitive modals”, University of Can Tho, Can Tho, Vietnam, Oct 27, 2009 & Vietnam National University,

Hanoi Oct 30, 2009

“Indefinites: what Aristotle has already told us”, University of Cambridge, Jan 14, 2010

(_, V. Gast & J. Vanderbiesen) “On the impersonal pronouns of German, Dutch and English”, University of

Genève, Nov 16, 2010

(V. Gast & _) “(Human) impersonal pronouns in German and English”, University of Aachen, Nov 17, 2010

“Teaching linguistics: a personal assessment”, Shantou University, Shantou, Jan 21, 2011

(_, V. Gast & J. Vanderbiesen) “On the impersonal pronouns of English, a comparison with German and Dutch”,

University of Hong Kong, Jan 27, 2011

(V. Gast & _) “Scalar additive operators, in Europe and elsewhere”, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Jan 28,

2011

(_ & M. Devos) “Multiple negation in Bantu”, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, Feb 7, 2011

(_, D. Noël & A. Van linden) “had better, ‘d better and better’, University of Göteborg, May 18, 2011

“Negation, Jespersen, Meillet and Swedish”, University of Göteborg, May 23, 2011

(V. Gast & _) “Scalar additive operators, in Europe and elsewhere”, University of Göteborg, May 26, 2011

(_, V. Gast & J. Vanderbiesen) “On the impersonal pronouns of English, a comparative perspective”, University

of Göteborg, June 16, 2011

“Negation, Jespersen, Meillet and Italian”, University of Napoli Frederico II, Dec 5, 2011

(_ & V. Gast) “Towards a typology of human impersonal pronouns”, University of Napoli L’Oriente, Dec 5, 2011;

City University of Hong Kong Feb 16 2012; Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Feb 21 2012

“Semantic maps: for synchronic and diachronic typology”, Sichuan University Chengdu, Feb 10 2012; City

University of Hong Kong Feb 13 2012; Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Feb 20 2012; Shanghai International

Studies University, Feb 24 2012; Kobe University April 9 2012

“More on better”, Tsukuba University, April 16 2012.

(_ & V. Gast) “Towards a typology of the human impersonal pronouns”, National Institute for Japanese Language

and Linguistics, Tachikawa, April 17 2012

“The indefinite pronouns of Yiddish, between Germanic and Slavic”, Sapporo University, April 18 2012.

“On publishing in linguistics”, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, July 6, 2012.

(_ & V. Gast) “On the human impersonal pronouns of English”, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, July 18,

2012

(_ & D. Van Olmen) “A special indefinite: such – and its West Germanic cognates”, Cambridge University, Feb

14, 2013

(_ & D. Van Olmen) “A special indefinite: such – and its West Germanic cognates”, Lund University, April 17,

2013

“Mood and modality – a pair apart, Lund University, April 16, 2013

“Mood and modality – a pair apart, University of Amsterdam, June 14, 2013

(D. Noël & _) “What a business information tool can do for linguists: Investigating recent structural change in

Hong Kong English with Factiva®”, University of Hong Kong, Oct 3 2013

“Mood and modality – a pair apart, University of Oldenburg, Oct 28, 2013


(F. Vossen & _) “Negatives between Austronesian and Papuan”, National University of Singapore, Jan 17 2014

“Mood and modality – a pair apart, University of Uppsala, Feb 19, 2013

“Geschichte von Modus und Modalität”, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Apr 17, 2014

“Mood and modality – a pair apart”, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 28, 2014

“Taal – blijf verwonderd” [Language – in perennial amazement], University of Leuven, Oct 16, 2014

“Mood (mode) and modality – a pair (triplet) apart”, University of Helsinki, Oct 24, 2014

“Mood and modality – a pair apart”, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Nov 6, 2014

“La complexité de la négation”, Université Aix-Marseille, Nov 20, 2014

“Negatives between Chamic and Bahnaric”, Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale, Paris, Apr 1,

2015

“Sur la typologie des indéfinis négatifs”, Université Lille III, Jun 12, 2015

“Mood and modality – a pair apart”, “More ado about nothing”, “Such and sådan: the same but different”,

University of Vilnius, Sept 17-18, 2015

“More ado about nothing”, “How negative can you be and still be just negative?”, Northeastern Hills University,

Shilling, Oct 12, 2015

“More ado about nothing”, Manchester University, Nov 18, 2015 / Lancaster University, Nov 19, 2015

“Que faire en linguistique?”, Université de Liège, Dec 17, 2015

“On the typology of multiple negation”, University of Vilnius, Apr 21, 2016

“More ado about nothing”, University of Köln, Apr 25, 2016

“More ado about nothing”, National University of Seoul, June 16, 2016

“More ado about nothing”, The Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Tokyo, Oct 3,

2016

“More ado about nothing”, Lund University, Nov 10, 2016

“More ado about nothing”, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, May 12, 2017

“Englishes, English Creoles and Negative Indefinites”, University of Hong Kong, Dec 7, 2017

3 lectures on negation and similatives, Vilnius University, April 2018

3 lectures on negation and similatives, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, April 2018

“Such and suchlike, a crosslinguistic reconnaissance”, University of Lausanne, May 29, 2019

Conference lectures [* = invitation]

“Presupposition and existence”, Interdisciplinary Conference “Perspectives on Language”, University of

Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, May 8 1976

“Pragmatic presupposition”, Presupposition conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, April 1 1977

“Logic hooked on natural language”, Summer Meeting of the California Linguistics Association, California State

University, Fresno, California, May 1 1977

“Dus” [Hence], Winter Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, Free University of Brussels, Dec 12 1977

“Bestaan verstaan” [Understanding existence], Meeting of the Association for Flemish Linguists, Saint Aloysius

University College, Brussels, Feb 16 1978

“Hence”, Spring Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Lancaster, April 11 1978

“Direct speech acts”, 13th Linguistisches Kolloquium, State University of Ghent, Sept 23 1978

“Conditions for empirical logics”, Winter Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, Free University of Brussels,

Dec 9 1978

“Semantic and Pragmatic Focus” and “On the aims and truth-values of Empirical Sentential Logic”, 6th

Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Frostavallen, Sweden, April 28,29 1979

“On the semantics and pragmatics of empirical logic”, Conference on the “Possibilities and Limitations of

Pragmatics”, Urbino, July 14 1979

“Reflection”, 14th Linguistisches Kolloquium, University of Bochum, FRG, Sept 14 1979

“Tagalog ang: an exercise in universal grammar”, Winter Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, Free

University of Brussels, Dec 8 1979

“Conditional scalarity”, Annual Meeting of the Dutch Linguistics Association, University of Amsterdam, Jan 19

1980

“Zweistellige Modalität” [Dyadic modality], Symposium “Sprache und Pragmatik”, University of Lund, Sweden,

Feb 12 1980


“Conditional scalarity”, 4th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Oslo, Norway, June 24

1980

“Pseudo-monadic operators”, Conference on Background Knowledge, Gothenburg, Sweden, Oct 7 1980

“Tagalog ang - an exercise in universal grammar”, Annual Meeting of the Dutch Linguistics Association,

University of Amsterdam, Jan 24 1981

“Possibility in language”, Workshop on modality, Belgian Linguistics Circle, Catholic University of Louvain,

May 16 1981

“Minimal ontology and the theory of meaning”, 6th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg a/Wechsel,

Austria, Aug 26 1981

“Possibility”, Fall Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of York, Oct 1 1981

“Possiblity and negation”, 6th Scandinavian Logic Symposium, Bø, Norway, May 9 1982

“Is de logica van de natuurlijke taal tweewaardig, driewaardig, or meerwaardig?” [Is the logic of natural language

two-valued, three-valued, or many-valued?], Workshop on Language and Logic, Belgian Linguistics Circle,

Catholic University of Louvain, May 15 1982

“Sperber and Wilson on Irony”, Conference on Communication, University of Linköping, Sweden, May 26 1982

“Comrie on subjects”, Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, Sept 10 1982

“Niederländisches soms (manchmal) und misschien (vielleicht)” [Dutch soms (sometimes) and misschien

(perhaps)], Internationales Kolloquium “Funktionen der Partikeln in dialogischer Interaktion”, Free

University of Berlin, Sept 24 1982

* Comments on the paper by T. Ballmer, University of Tilburg, Oct 7 1982

“May, can, and their possibilities”, Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher Education,

University College Mons, Belgium, Nov 15 1982

“From temporal adverb to modal particle - Polish czasem”, 16th International Conference on Polish-English

Contrastive Linguistics, Blazejewko, Poland, Dec 4 1982

“Only if”, Winter Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, Free University of Brussels, Dec 6 1982

“Comrie on subjects”, Annual Meeting of the Dutch Linguistics Association, University of Amsterdam, Jan 22

1983

“Over de scalariteit van graadpartikels” [On the scalarity of degree particles], Symposium on Dutch Particles,

University of Antwerp (UIA), May 31 1983

“Subject-nonsubject asymmetries in the relativization of embedded subjects”, Conference on Sentential

Complementation, Saint Aloysius University College, Brussels, June 9 1983

* “Speech acts and conditionals”, Symposium on Conditionals and Cognitive Processes, Stanford University,

California, Dec 10 1983

3 Lectures on Linguistic Pragmatics, Workshop “Between Semantics and Pragmatics”, Inter-University Centre of

Post-Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, May 15-18 1984

“Predicative relatives in French”, Functional Grammar Symposium, University of Amsterdam, June 6 1984

(_ & D. Kučanda) “Serbo-Croatian što: Pronoun or conjunction?”, Workshop “Between Semantics and

Pragmatics”, Inter-University Centre of Post-Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, May 17 1985

“Serbo-Croatian što”, 5th Balkan and South Slavic Conference, Bloomington, IND, March 7 1986

“Complementizers as P2 Fillers”, 2nd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Antwerp, Sept 4 1986

“L’actif et le passif, sont-ils vériconditionnellement équivalents?” [Are actives and passives truth-conditionally

equivalent?], Colloque International “L’ambiguité et la paraphrase”, Caen, April 10 1987

(_ & H. Haberland) “Topics and Clitics in Greek Relatives”, 8th Annual Meeting of the Greek Linguistic Society,

Thessaloniki, April 29 1987

“Actief en passief - vijf ideeën en twee problemen” [Active and passive - five ideas and two problems], Ghent,

Spring Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, May 9 1987

* “Linguistic pragmatics and its relevance to the writing of (scientific) grammars” (Round table on “Linguistic

theory and grammar writing), 14th International Congress of Linguistics, East Berlin, August 11 1987

“Restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses” (Section “Syntax and Semantics”), 14th International Congress

of Linguistics, East Berlin, August 12 1987

“Implicatures for modality”, International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17 1987

“Are actives and passives truth-conditionally equivalent?”, Symposium on Logic and Language, Debrecen,

Hungary, August 25 1987

* (E. König & _) “Subordination strategies”, European Science Foundation Meeting “Typology and the European

Languages”, Rome, Jan 8 1988

“Adverbial and adjectival present participle uses”, Spring Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, Mons, May

14 1988


“On the position of Germanic complementizers’, Fifth Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax, Groningen,

May 19 1988

“Getting ahead”, Third International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 23 1988

“Adverbial and adjectival present participle uses”, Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea,

Freiburg, July 13 1988

(_ & S. Pinkusowitz), “Yiddish shoyn and related issues”, 9. Groninger Grammatikgespräche, Groningen,

November 16 1989

“Adverbs and particles of change and continuation”, European Science Foundation, EUROTYP project, Theme

group meeting on adverbials, Antwerp, March 23 1990

“Free relatives”, Fourth International Conference on Functional Grammar, Copenhagen, June 26 1990

“Conditional perfection”, 1990 International Pragmatics Conference, Barcelona, July 19 1990

“Adverbs and particles of change and continuation”, European Science Foundation EUROTYP project, Theme

group meeting on adverbials, Madrid, November 29 - December 1 1990

“Copredicating present participles, adjectives, and relative clauses”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für

Sprachwissenschaft, Aachen, February 27 1991

* “Theme group report”, “Adverbial conjunctions in the languages of Europe - some comments”, European

Science Foundation, EUROTYP project, Plenary conference, Castelvecchio Pascoli, May 21-25 1991

“Adverbial quantification in the languages of Europe - some comments”, European Science Foundation,

EUROTYP project, Theme group meeting on adverbials, Berlin, November 28-30 1991

“Zu den KKK-Relationen” [On CCC-Relations], Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Bremen,

February 26 1992

“The internal structure of adverbial clauses - Polish and Kalmyk”, European Science Foundation, EUROTYP

project, Theme group meeting on adverbials, Dublin, April 23-25 1992

* “French predicative relatives”, Colloque du Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l’Ouest de la France, Bordeaux,

June 11-13 1992

“Continuation, iteration, change - progress report”, “Equality and similarity: Dutch, French, Hungarian,

Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, and Yiddish”, European Science Foundation, EUROTYP project,

Theme group meeting on adverbials, San Sebastian, Sept 2-5 1992

* “al en nog in de talen van Europa” [‘already and still in the languages of Europe’], Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse

Maatschappij voor Taal-en Letterkunde, Brussels, March 27 1993

“Coming to terms with heads”, “Relatives and definitizers”, European Science Foundation, EUROTYP project,

Theme group meeting on the structure of the Noun Phrase, Antwerp, March 27-30 1993.

“Concessive conditionals in French, Neo-Aramaic, Romanian, and Yiddish”, “Location in French, Romanian, and

Yiddish”, European Science Foundation, EUROTYP project, Theme group meeting on adverbials,

Strasbourg, April 1-3 1993

(_ & F. Plank) “Wie was Dr. Henri Bourgeois I?” [Who was Dr. Henri Bourgeois I], Spring Meeting of the Belgian

Linguistics Circle, Brussels, May 8 1993

“The fatal futility of Fact - after Henry James or Comments on Hengeveld’s ‘Semantic type, factivity and the

expression of adverbial clauses”, European Science Foundation, EUROTYP project, ad hoc theme group

meeting on adverbials, Brussels, June 26-27 1993

“Repetition, Reversal and Revision in Bulgarian, Dutch, French, and Portuguese”, “Sentence adverbs in

Bulgarian, French, and Portuguese”, “Continuation, iteration, change - progress report”, European Science

Foundation, EUROTYP project, Theme group meeting on adverbials, Pavia, Sept 23-25 1993

* “Les préverbes de néerlandais” [The preverbs of Dutch], Colloque “Préverbes et préverbation dans les langues

d’Europe”, Lille, Nov 18-19 1993

“nog in the talen van Europa” [still in the languages of Europe], Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap,

Utrecht, Jan 22 1994

“On the typology of negative position in phasal quantifiers”, Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine

Sprachwissenschaft, Inaugural Conference on Universal Grammar & Typological Variation, Berlin, Ma 19

1994

* “Conditional perfection”, Conference “Conditionals and Co”, Universität Duisburg, Duisburg, Ma 25-26 1994

“Converbs in French and Slovenian”, “Comments on ‘Adverbial subordinators’”, ‘Comments on ‘Concessive

conditionals’”, European Science Foundation, EUROTYP project, Plenary conference, Le Bischenberg Ma

26-31 1994

“Phasal adverbials in the languages of Europe”, European Science Foundation, EUROTYP project, Theme group

meeting on adverbials, Björstorp Oct 6 1994


* “Flemish from a typological perspective”, Universität Konstanz, 1st Euro-Regional Workshop on Language

Typology, Nov 29 - Dec 1 1994

*“The lesson from conditional perfection”, Conference “Linguistics by the end of the XXth century: achievements

and perspectives”, Moscow, Feb 4 1995

“Separable and inseparable verbal prefixes in Dutch and German”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft,

Göttingen, Ma 2 1995

“Adverbials and Standard Average European”, Inaugural Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology,

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Sept 10 1995

“Converbs: remaining issues”, Symposium on Converbs, Pavia, Dec 4 1995

“Standard Average European”, Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek, Brussel, May 11 1996

“On ((Indo-)European) Negative Modals”, Pioneer Conference on Negation, Groningen, Aug 25 1996

“Towards a Charlemagne Sprachbund”, Societas Linguistica Europaea, Klagenfurt, Sept 5 1996

“Cosubordination”, 7th International Conference on Functional Grammar, Córdoba, Sept 24 1996

“On the typology of negative modals” and “The ALT Implications Register, partim modality”, Antwerpen, ALT

Regional Workshop on Modality, Nov 8-9 1996

“*nall, *nand, *noth, needn’t”, Conference “Sinn und Bedeutung”, Tübingen, Dec 20 1996

“Modality and negation in Hindi and Bengali”, The Eighteenth South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable, New

Delhi, Jan 6 1997

*”Spanish as a European outlier language”, *”*nall, *nand but needn’t”, *Contribution to panel “Typological

linguistics: its place and significance within modern linguistics”, International Seminar on Linguistic

Typology, Granada, Ma 10-13 1997

“On combining negation and modality”, XVIième congrès international des linguistes, Paris 22 juli 1997

“On the typology of negative modals”, 2nd Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Eugene, OR,

USA, Sept 1-14 1997

*”Dutch verbal prefixes: meaning and form, grammaticalization and lexicalization”, European Workshop on the

Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax, Roma, Oct 24 1997

(_ & V. Plungian) “On modality’ semantic map”, Spring Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, Free

University of Brussels, Apr 25 1998

“Separable and inseparable verbal prefixes in Dutch”, Cognitive Morphology Workshop, Gent July 4 1998

“Layering and the grammar of modality”, 8th International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, July

7 1998

(_ & D.N.S. Bhat) “Havkaya Kannada: Modality and negation”, The Nineteenth South Asian Languages Analysis

Roundtable, York, July 18 1998

* “Dutch in contact with other languages - a historical-areal perspective”, Study Centre on Language Contact,

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, Feb 22 1999

* “La grammaire de la modalité” [The grammar of modality], Journées d’étude sur les développement récents de

la Grammaire Fonctionnelle, Université Hassan II, Mohammedia, Marocco, 13 April 1999

“Degrammaticalization”, New Perspectives on Grammaticalization, Potsdam, June 19 1999

“Towards a semantic map of periphrastic do”, 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Stockholm, July

14 1999

*“In memoriam Simon C. Dik”, 3rd International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology,

Amsterdam, Aug 28 1999

*“Europe as a Linguistic Area”, 2nd International Symposium on Eurolinguistics. St. Petersburg, Sept 14 1999

* (_ & A. Ammann) “Mood and modality: cross-linguistic issues”, Conference “Languages in the Mediterranean

area: Typology and convergence”, Pisa, June 1 2000

(_ & C. Montoliu) “Si on parlait dégrammaticalisation?, Colloque du Cercle Linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest

de la France, Rennes, June 2 2000

(A. Ammann & _) “Korean modality - asymmetries between necessity and possibility”, 12th International

Conference on Korean Linguistics, Prague, July 15 2000

(_ & I. Genee) “Periphrastic do: on the convergence of languages and linguists”, 11th International Conference of

English Historical Linguistics. Santiago de Compostela, Sept 11 2000

(_ & I. Genee) “Periphrastic do: on the convergence of languages and linguists”, Annual Meeting of the Belgian

Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, Louvain-la-Neuve, Nov 25 2000

(_ & A. Ammann) “Volitional convergence around the Mediterranean”, Conference on the Balkan Sprachbund

Features, Leiden, June 7 2001

*(_ & A. Malchukov) “Depictive adjectives and adverbials”, Workshop: Depictive secondary predicates in cross-

linguistic perspective, Bochum, June 9 2001


*“Modality”, Workshop on Functional Grammar and Linguistic Typology, Santa Barbara, July 19 2001

(_ & N. Dobrushina & V. Goussev) “Imperatives and hortatives”, 4th International Conference of the Association

for Linguistic Typology, Santa Barbara, July 20 2001

(Li, R. & _) “Negative modals in Mandarin”, 3rd Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics,

Rome, Sept 7 2001

*(_ & N. Dobrushina & V. Goussev) “A cross-linguistic semantic map for imperatives”, 2nd International

CoLLaTE Colloquium ‘Contrastive Analysis and Linguistic Theory”, Gent Sept 22 2001

(_ & I. Genee) “What does DO have to do with do - On the Celtic origin hypothesis for the English auxiliary do”,

Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Alberta, Banff, Oct 20 2001

*“Grammaticalization”, Workshop on the Coevolution of Syntax and Semantics, Paris Oct 23 2001

*(_ & M. Devos) “The Atlas of the Dutch dialects: Flanders”, Workshop on European Dialect Syntax, Freiburg

Nov 29 2001

*(_ & A. Neuckermans) “Negation in Flemish: a European perspective”, Workshop on European Dialect Syntax,

Freiburg Nov 29 2001

*“Integrating the historical, areal and typological approaches”, The Language Blueprint Symposium, Netherlands

Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, Jan 11-13 2002

*(_ & N. Dobrushina & V. Goussev) “A cross-linguistic semantic map for imperatives”, 3rd International

Typological Winter School, Feb 2 2002

*(_ & N. Dobrushina & V. Goussev) “The typology of imperative-hortatives”, Workshop ’In the Mood’, Johann

Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, June 21 2002

(_ & A. Neuckermans) “Flemish negation from a typological and areal perspective”, Eleventh International

Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Joensuu, Aug 8 2002

*(_ & A. Malchukov) “A semantic map for depictives”, 2nd Conference on Contemporary Germanic, Romance,

and Baltic Linguistics, Vilnius Sept 6 2002

(_ & A. Ammann) “Modal polyfunctionality in Standard Average European”, Annual Meeting of the Michigan

Linguistic Society, Detroit, Sept 19 2002

Comments Annual Meeting Linguistic Typology Research Consortium, Utrecht, Sept 28 2002

(_ & N. Gabas) “Ideophones in Karo (Tupi, Brazil), 6th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and

Language, Rice University, Houston (TX), Oct 12 2002

*(_ & A. Neuckermans ‘Driedubbele negatie’ [“Triple negation”], Colloquium Taal en Tongval, Gent, Nov 8

2002

*“From Optatives to Imperative-Hortatives”, Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für

Sprachwissenschaft, München, Feb 28 2003

(E. Schalley & _) “From Optatives to Imperative-Hortatives”, Annual Meeting of the Belgische Kring voor

Linguistiek, May 10, 2003

*(_ & M. Devos) “The SAND project: results”, Exploratory Workshop (European Science Foundation), Dialect

syntax in Europe, Padova, Sept 3 2003

(_ & A. Neuckermans) “Negative indefinites: micro- and macrovariation”, Symposium on Dialectology,

Diachrony and Typology, Helsinki, 16 Oct 2003

*“Mood and Modality”, Symposium “Linguistische Kategorienfinding”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,

München, 30 Oct 2003

(_ & L. De Cuypere) “Flemish negative indefinites: Micro-and macrovariation”, 2004 Berkeley Germanic

Linguistics Roundtable, April 3, 2004

(D. Idiatov & _) “Nominalisation as a question formation strategy in Tucanoan”, Workshop on American Indian

Languages, Santa Barbara, May 2, 2004

(_ & M. Taeymans) “More on the ancestors of need”, The 25th Conference of the International Computer Archive

of Modern and Medieval English, Verona, May 18, 2004

(D. Idiatov & _) “On interrogative pro-verbs”, Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Questions, Université

de Nancy, Aug 9, 2004

*(_, J. Nuyts & T. Mortelmans) “English modal verbs: a function-based and cross-linguistic approach”, 2nd

International Conference of Modality in English, Pau, Sept 2, 2004

(_ & A. Ammann, with S. Kindt) “Modal polyfunctionality and Standard Average European”, Modalität

Kontrastiv, Antwerp, Sept 11, 2004

(_ & E. Schalley) “On analytic and synthetic imperatives in Slavonic”, Perspectives on Slavistics, Leuven, Sep

17, 2004

(D. Idiatov & _) “Deverbal nouns as questions”, Lille, International Conference on Deverbal Nouns, Oct 2, 2004

“Vers une typologie du prohibitif”. Colloque TYP-4, Paris, Nov 15, 2004


*(_ & E. Schalley) “Mapping Slavic verbs and adverbs of epistemic possibility”, Conference on Modality in

Slavonic Languages, Regensburg, Nov 19, 2004

“On the grammaticalization of prohibitives”, Conference “From ideational to interpersonal: Perspectives from

Grammaticalization”, Leuven, Feb 11, 2005.

(L. De Cuypere, _ & K. Willems) “Multiple negation and iconicity”, Fifth International Symposium “Iconicity in

language and literature”, Kraków, Mar 28, 2005.

*(_, E. Schalley & J. Nuyts) “Epistemic possibility in a Slavonic parallel corpus”, Workshop on Parallel Corpora

in Typology, Leipzig, April 1, 2005.

(L. De Cuypere, _ & K. Willems) “Multiple negation and iconicity”, Winter Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics

Circle, University of Antwerp, April 30, 2005.

*“On the typology of prohibitives”, Presidential address, 38th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica

Europaea, Valencia, Sept 7, 2005

*“Prohibitives; why two thirds of the world’s languages are like Mandarin”, 3rd International Conference on

Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, Shanghai, Sept 16, 2005.

*(_, E. Schalley & G. De Vogelaer) “pojdëmte“, Internationales Symposium “Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung“,

Passau, Nov 19, 2005

(G. De Vogelaer & _) “When typological rara become productive: the extension of grammatical agreement in

Dutch dialects”, Conference “Rara and rarissma - Collecting and interpreting unusual characteristics of

human languages”, Leipzig March 29 - April 1, 2006

*(M. Miestamo & _) “Asymmetries between declarative and prohibitive negation”, Linguistics Festival, Bremen,

May 21-25, 2006

(_ & M. Miestamo “Aspect and negation”, 38th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bremen,

Aug 30, 2006

(L. De Cuypere, K. Willems & _) “Iconicity in language: an integrated approach”, 38th Annual Meeting of the

Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bremen, Sept 1, 2006

*(_ & M. Miestamo) “Aspect and negation”, Chronos 7 “Temps verbaux et modalité”, Antwerpen Sept 18-20

2006

*(_, A. Vittrant & P. Kehayov) “Introducing acquisitive modals”, TAMTAM Conference, Nijmegen, Nov 15-16,

2006

(_, A. Malchukov & E. Schalley “(Im)Perfective Imperatives”, 7th International Conference of the Association for

Linguistic Typology, Paris, Sept 27 2007

“Revisiting the semantic map of modality”, 7th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic

Typology, Workshop on semantic maps, Paris, Sept 29 2007

* “The position of German in the European linguistic landscape”, Linguistisches Kolloquium, Bremen, Dec 8-9,

2007

* “Les conjugaisons dangereuses”, Société de Linguistique de Paris, Paris, Dec 15, 2007

*“Jespersen’s cycle: Notes from typology and dialectology”, Conference on Linguistic Cycles, Tempe AZ, April

26 2008

*“Generalizing Jespersen’s cycle: Notes from typology and dialectology”, NORMS (Nordic Center of Excellence

in Microcomparative Syntax) Conference on typology and dialectology, Helsinki, June 7 2008

(_ & D. Noël) “Raising in English, Dutch and German”, “Germanic sandwich” conference, Sheffield, Sept 12

2008

*“The prohibitive as double irrealis”, Workshop on Irrealisness, 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica

Europaea, Forlì, Sept 19, 2008

(_ & D. Noël) “Raising in English, Dutch and German”, First Triennial Conference of the International Society

for the Linguistics of English, Freiburg, Oct 10, 2008

*(_& M. Devos) “The prohibitive as double irrealis, in the world (and in Omotic)”, Omotic Utterance Type, Mood

and Attitude Markers and Linguistic Typology, Leiden, Oct 23, 2008

(D. Noël &_) “Applying diachronic construction grammar: The development of deontic supposed to”, Annual

Meeting of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, Namur, Nov 22, 2008

(V. Gast & _) “Scalar additive particles in the languages of Europe”, Scalarity in all its aspects, Ghent, Dec 16,

2008

*“The Jespersen cycles”, Workshop on Comparing Grammars, Berlin, Feb 7, 2009

*(V. Gast & _) “Scalar additive particles in the languages of Europe”, Workshop on Comparing Grammars, Berlin,

Feb 7, 2009

(D. van Olmen & _) “On order and prohibition”, Annual Meeting of the Dutch Linguistics Association, Utrecht,

Feb 7, 2009


(V. Gast & _) “Scalar additive particles in the languages of Europe”, Partikeltagung, Bern, Feb 11, 2009

(M. Kasombo, M. Devos & _) “Double and triple negative marking in Kanincin (L53)”, 3rd International

Conference on Bantu languages, Tervuren, March 27, 2009

* “Indefinites: towards a neo-Aristotelian semantic map”, 19th International Symposium on Theoretical and

Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, April 4, 2009

(_ & D. Noël) “Raising in German, Dutch and English”. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Banff, May

1, 2009

“Indefinites: look and see what Aristotle has already done for us”, Workshop on Asymmetries and Universals,

Konstanz, May 22, 2009

(V. Gast & _) “Scalar additive operators: typology and historical development”, 7th International Conference of

the Association for Linguistic Typology, Berkeley, July 25 2009

(D. Van Olmen & _) “On order and prohibition”, 8th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic

Typology, Berkeley, July 26 2009

(M. Devos & _) “Jespersen cycles in Bantu languages”, 8th International Conference of the Association for

Linguistic Typology, Berkeley, July 26 2009

(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “On the typology of indefinite, non-specific and free-choice elements”, 42nd Annual

Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Lisbon, Sept 25 2009.

(_, D. Noël & A. De Wit) “On the need (to)’s of the Asian Englishes”, 15th International Conference of the

International Association for World Englishes, Cebu City, Philippines, Oct 22 2009

*(_ & P. Gybels) “The negative indefinites of Yiddish”, Yiddish Language Structures, Regensburg, Nov 30 2009

(T. Mortelmans & _) “Komparative Modalkonstruktionen im Deutschen: ein Vergleich mit dem Niederländischen

und dem Englishen”, Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien, Rome, Feb 5 2010

(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “Mapping the any’s of English, German and Dutch”, Workshop “Indefiniteness

Crosslinguistically”, Annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin Feb 25

2010

(_, F. Vossen & M Devos) “Le cycle de Jespersen à trois et quatre négations”, Colloque “A contrario”, Caen, Ma

25 2010

(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “Vers un cube des oppositions”, Colloque “A contrario”, Caen, Ma 26 2010

(_& L. Van Alsenoy) “Squaring any”, Second World Conference on the Square of Oppositions, Corte, Corsica,

June 17 2010

* “Revisiting the typology of negative indefinites”, 11th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies,

Workshop on negation in Uralic languages, Piliscsaba, Aug 11 2010

* (_, D. Noël & A. Van linden) “Had better, ‘d better, and better”, 4th International Conference on Modality in

English, Madrid, Sept 10 2010

(_, V. Gast & V. Vanderbiesen) “On English, Dutch and German generic pronouns”, A Germanic Sandwich 2010:

Dutch between English and German, Oldenburg, Sept 17 2010

(L. Van Alsenoy & _) “Zur Grammatikalisieruing von dt. enig, nl. enig und engl. any”, Germanistentag 2010,

Freiburg, Sept 21 2010

* “Contrastive linguistics and typology”, 6th International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Berlin, Oct 2

2010

(L. Van Alsenoy & _) “On the degrammaticalization of Dutch iemand ‘someone’ and iets ‘something’,

International conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)subjectification, Brussels, Nov 11 2010

(D. Noël & _) “Where are the modals going in World Englishes, and how do we find out?”, Chronos 10,

Birmingham, Apr 20 2011

*“Belgische Taalkundigen in de wereld” [Belgian linguists in the world], 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Belgian

Linguistics Circle, Antwerp May 7 2011.

*“Semantic maps and their falsifiability”, International Workshop on Egyptian Syntax, Liège, May 13 2011.

*“On diachronic semantic maps”, International Workshop on Gradualness in change and its relation to synchronic

variation and use, Pavia, May 31 2011

*(_, F. Vossen & M. Devos) “On restrengthening negation”, Panel on the Pragmatics of Negation, International

Pragmatics Conference, Manchester, July 8 2011

(_, L Van Alsenoy & M. Devos) “On the relation between double negation and negative concord”, 9th International

Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Hong Kong, July 22 2011

(_ & V. Gast) “Towards a typology of human impersonal pronouns”, 9th International Conference of the

Association for Linguistic Typology, Hong Kong, July 23 2011

*(_, L. Van Alsenoy & M. Devos) “On the relation between double negation and negative concord”, Panel on the

Diachrony of Negation, International Historical Linguistics Conference, Osaka July 28 2011


*(_ & F. Vossen) “Jespersen’s cycle in Asia and Oceania”, Panel on the Diachrony of Negation, International

Historical Linguistics Conference, Osaka July 28 2011

*(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “Indefiniteness and the mass/count distinction”, 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas

Linguistica Europaea, Logroño, Sept 9 2011.

*“Funding for linguists: The European Research Council grants”, 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica

Europaea, Logroño, Sept 10 2011.

(E. Coussé & _) “Impersonal pronouns in Swedish and Dutch – a comparative study of man and men”, Workshop

on impersonal pronouns, Paris, Sept 20 2011.

*(V. Gast & __) “On the typology of even – A transeurasian overview”, Symposium on Shared grammaticalization

in the Transeurasian languages, Leuven, Sept 23 2011.

* “Wat het Nederlands ons leert over de Jespersen-cyclus” [“What Dutch teaches us about the Jespersen cycle”],

Dag van de Nederlandse Zinsbouw, Amsterdam Nov 25 2011.

* “The typology of advice”, International Conference on Tense, Aspect and Modality, Mysore Feb 3 2012

*(_ & V. Gast) “Towards a typology of the human impersonal pronouns”, 26th Conference of the Fukuoka

Cognitive Linguistics Association, Fukuoka, Mar 30 2012 & Workshop on Comparative Pragmatics, the

Pragmatics Society of Japan, Kyoto April 8 2012

*“More on better”, Annual meeting of the Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English

Language, Tokyo, April 14 2012

*(V. Gast & _) “A typology of human impersonal pronouns”, Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop, Leipzig,

April 27 2012

(E. Coussé & _) “A contrastive corpus study of Swedish man and Dutch men”, Grammatikfestivalen¸Göteborg,

May 4. 2012; Annual Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, Liège May 19 2012.

(F. Vossen & _) “Multiple exponence of standard negation in Austronesian”, 12th International Conference of

Austronesian Linguistics, Bali July 2 2012.

* “Some essentials of linguistic typology”, Workshop on typology and African languages, Potchefstroom (South

Africa), Sept 11, 12 2012

*“Semantic maps for synchronic and diachronic typology”, 7e Giornate Svizzere della Linguistica, Lugano, Sept

14 2012

*“Semantic maps for synchronic and diachronic typology”, International Conference on Innovation and

Development of Modern Linguistic Sciences, Xuzhou (China), Oct 27 2012

(V. Gast, _, L. Deringer & O. Rudolf) “Representing the distribution of human impersonal pronouns”, Colloque

Pronoms impersonnels humains, Paris, Nov 9 2012

*(_& D. Van Olmen) “On West Germanic similative indefinites”, A Germanic Sandwich, Leuven, Jan 11 2013

*(_ & V. Gast) “Representing the distribution of human impersonal pronouns”, Workshop on Pronouns and

perspective in language and literature, Wassenaar, Jan 16 2013

(F. Vossen & _) “The Jespersen cycle in and round New Guinea”, 6th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and

Linguistics Conference, London, May 25 2013

*(_, V. Gast & K. Sahoo) “Even –scaling up from contrastive linguistics to typology”, Preconference talk, 7th

International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, Ghent, July 10 2013

*(_ & C. Mauri) “Conclusion”, Workshop on Logical Words, 19th International Congress of Linguists, Geneva,

26 July 2013

(F. Vossen & _) “The Jespersen cycle in and round New Guinea”, 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica

Europaea, Split, Sept 18 2013

(_, V. Gast & N. Levshina “Conclusion”, Workshop on Parallel Corpora, 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas

Linguistica Europaea, Split, Sept 20 2013

(D. Noël & _) “What a business information tool can do for linguists: Investigating recent structural change in

Hong Kong English with Factiva®”, Englishes Today: Theoretical and methodological issues”, Vigo, Oct 19

2013

(F. Vossen & _) “Negatives between Austronesian and Papuan”, Workshop on Papuan Languages 3, Manokwari,

West Papua, Indonesia, Jan 21 2014

(_ & F. Vossen) “Jespersen Cycles in the Americas”, Workshop on Linguistic Cycles, Tempe AZ, April 26 2014

(_ & K. Sahoo) “On comparative concepts and descriptive categories, such as they are”, Spring Meeting of the

Belgian Linguistics Circle, Ghent, May 17, 2014

(F. Vossen & _) “Negatives between Chamic and Bahnaric”, 24th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics

Society, Yangon, Myanmar, May 31 2014

*“Jespersen’s Cycle world wide”, Symposium, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, July 2 2014

“Mood and modality – a pair apart”, 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Vila


Real, Aug 28 2014

(_ & F. Vossen) “Multiple negation in the Sino-Tibetan languages of Eastern Nepal and Sikkim”, Workshop on

Language contact and structural isomorphism in the Himalayan region, 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas

Linguistica Europaea, Poznan, Sept 11 2014

(_ & F. Vossen) “Double negation in the Kiranti languages”, 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of

Nepal, Kathmandu, Nov 26 2014

(D. Noel & _) “Recent changes in the spread of verbal modal categories in the Hong Kong and Singapore printed

press”, Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher Education, Antwerp, Nov 28 2014

*(_ & E. Coussé) *“Such and sådan – similar but different”, Symposium on Parallel Corpora, Lund, Dec 6 2014.

*“On the typology of negation”, Workshop on Negation in Ancient Egyptian, Paris Dec 11 2014

*“On the multiple exponence of clausal negation”, 3rd Conference Logic Now and Then, Brussels, Feb 4 2015

(_& D. Van Olmen) “On some similarities between West Germanic similatives”, A Germanic Sandwich,

Nottingham, April 23 2015

*“More ado about nothing – on the typology of negative indefinites”,1st LogPrag Workshop – Semantics and

pragmatics of logical words, Les Diablerets, June 17 2015

(_ & F. Vossen) “Negatives between Chamic and Bahnaric”, 13th International Conference of Austronesian

Linguistics, Taipei July 22 2015.

(V. Gast, L. Deringer, F. Haas, O. Rudolf & _) “Impersonals in cross-linguistic perspective – Converging

.evidence from typology and corpora”, 11th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic

Typology, Albuquerque, Aug 1 2015.

*“More ado about nothing – on the typology of negative indefinites”, 37th International Conference of the

Linguistic Society of India, New Delhi, Oct 16 2015.

*“On comparative concepts and descriptive categories, such as they are”, 60th Annual Conference of the Linguistic

Society of Korea, Seoul, June 2016.

“Negative indefinites in the Caribbean Creoles”, 21st Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics,

Kingston, July 30 2016

“Such and suchlike: a non ad hoc category in grammar for an ad hoc category in discourse”, 49th Annual Meeting

of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Naples, Aug 31 2016.

“Multiple negation in Kiranti: a copula conjecture”, Workshop on Kiranti languages, Paris, Dec 2 2016.

*(_ , O. Krasnoukhova & F. Vossen) & “Intertwining the negative cycles”, Workshop on the Negative Existential

Cycle, Stockholm, May 4 2017

*(_, O. Krasnoukhova & F. Vossen) “Intertwining the negative cycles”, Summer School of the Societas

Linguistica Europea, Neufchâtel, Sept 7 2017

(_ , O. Krasnoukhova & F. Vossen) “Intertwining the negative cycles”, 12th International Conference of the

Association for Linguistic Typology, Canberra, Dec 14, 2017

*(_ & L. Veselinova) “Not yet, in general and in Bantu”, International Conference on Phasal Polarity in Sub-

Saharan African Languages, Hamburg Feb 2, 2018

(_ & O. Krasnoukhova) “Postverbal negative ma in the Andean foothills”, Amazonicas 7, Baños, June 1, 2018

*“Such and suchlike: a crosslinguistic reconnaissance”, Olomouc Linguistic Symposium, Oomouc, June 9, 2018

(O. Krasnoukhova & _) “Dynamics in postverbal negation: the case of Awa Pit”, 20th International Congress of

Linguistics, Capetown, July 5 2018

(_ & O. Krasnoukhova) “Postverbal negative ma in the Andean foothills”, 20th International Congress of

Linguistics, Capetown, July 5 2018

“Negative concord in Jamaican Creole”, 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, San Jose.

Aug 7 2018

*“Funding”, Summer School of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tartu, Aug 27 2018

(Krasnoukhova, O. & _) “On new diachronies in negation marking: a double polarity swap”, 51st Annual Meeting

of the Societas Linguistica, Europaea, Tallinn, Aug 29 2018

*“More ado about nothing – on the typology of negative indefinites”, Workshop on explanation in diachrony and

synchrony, Nov 12 2018, Hermosillo, Mexico

*“Such and suchlike: a crosslinguistic reconnaissance”, 15 Encuentro internacional di Lingüística em el Noroeste,

Hermosillo, Mexico, Nov 12 2018

(_ & T. N. De Lisser) “Negative Indefinites in the English and English Creoles, with a focus on Jamaican Creole”,

Workshop ‘Simply not’, Bologna 21 May, 2019

(_ & T. N. De Lisser) “Negative Concord in Jamaican”, Spring Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle,

Brussels, June 13 2019.

(_ & T. N. De Lisser) “Negative Concord in Jamaican”, Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole


Linguistics, Lisbon, June 17 2019.

(Krasnoukhova, O. & _) “De la adscripción a la negación estándar: Una exploración interlingüística de la

diacronía construccional”, 1er Coloquio internacional de Lingüistica, La Paz, July 20 2019.

(_ & O. Krasnoukhova, O.) “La negación zaparoana reexaminada”, 1er Coloquio internacional de Lingüistica,

La Paz, July 20 2019.

(Krasnoukhova, O. & _) “On constructional diachrony. From ascription to standard negation”, 52nd Annual

Meeting of the Societas Linguistica, Europaea, Leipzig, Aug 22 2019.

(Krasnoukhova, O. & _) “From ascriptiive negation to standard negation”, 13th International Conference of the

Association for Linguistic Typology, Pavia, Aug 22 2019.

“The future of modality studies – a view from the past”, Workshop on modality and written corpora, Neuchâtel,

Dec 17 2019.

“Quirky Negative Concord”, Fall Meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, Namur-Zoom, Oct 17 2020.

(Krasnoukhova, O. & _) “Standard negation: tendencies in South American languges vs. the world”, Colóquio :

Negação nas línguas Ameríndias, Campinas-Zoom, Dec 4 2020.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES Administrative duties at or on behalf of the University of Antwerp

linguistics section : chair 1987-1989, 1995-1999

vice-chair 2010-present

department: chair 1999-2003

vice chair 1995-1999

library advisor 1995-1999

member curriculum development committee 1995-1999

vice chair 2009-

faculty: member doctoral studies committee 1996-1999

member steering committee library 1995-1999

member research assessment panel, 2002

university member steering committee India Study Center 1996-

member academic council 1999-2003

member linguistics expert group, Flemish Community pilot project on the

evaluating research in the humanities, 1997-1999

member jury Prize Linguistics Alumni, Universitaire Stichting, 1997

member board Jewish Studies Centre, 2001-2007

Direction of the Center for Grammar, Cognition, and Typology, University of Antwerp, 1999-2014

Member of the Academia Europaea, 2015-

Direction of doctoral dissertations: University of Antwerp

Bert Bultinck “Multiple meanings. The meaning of the English cardinals and the legacy of Paul

Grice”, 2002

Renzhi Li “Modality in Chinese and English: a typological perspective”, 2003

Martine Taeymans “An investigation into the emergence and development of the verb need

from Old to Present-day English: a corpus-based approach”, 2006

Ceyhan Temürcü “A Semantic Framework for Analyzing Tense, Aspect and Mood: An

Application to the Ranges of Polysemy of -Xr, -DIr, -Iyor and -Ø in Turkish”, 2007

Dmitry Idiatov “A typology of non-selective interrogative pronominals”, 2007

Ewa Schalley “Imperatives: a typological approach”, 2008


Daniël Van Olmen “Imperatives in English and Dutch”, 2011

Astrid De Wit "The Present Perfective Paradox", April 2014

Lauren Van Alsenoy “A new typology of indefinite pronouns, with a focus on negative

indefinites”, May 2014

Frens Vossen “The Jespersen Cycles”, April 2016

Ongoing

Yinchun Bai “Towards Discourse Markers: A Cross-linguistic Study of Grammatical

Constructionalization”

Membership in doctoral juries

University of Amsterdam: 1997, 2000, 2006, 2008

Catholic University Nijmegen / Radboud University Nijmegen: 1997, 2005

Free University of Amsterdam: 1999, 2014

Université Libre de Bruxelles: 2002, 2014

University of Ghent: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2017

Catholic University of Leuven: 2006

University of Cambridge: 2006, 2009, 2009, 2015

University of Copenhagen: 2006

University of Paris 7: 2007

Charles University Prague & University of Paris 7: 2008

University of Hannover: 2011

University of Chicago: 2012

University of Vilnius: 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016

University of Oldenburg: 2013

University of Lund: 2016

University of Genève: 2017

University of Liège: 2017

University of Stockholm 2018

University of Lisbon, 2020

Membership in juries for habilitations

University of Vilnius: 2002

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris: 2005

University of Regensburg: 2005

University of Paris 7: 2012

École pratique des hautes études, Paris: 2018

University of Paris Diderot: 2018

External expert for ad hoc research evaluation

Dutch Science Foundation, (NWO), 1985, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015

Committee Germanic languages and literature, Flemish Community, 1996

Ministarstvo znanosti i tehnologije (Ministry of Science and Technolgy), Zagreb, Croatia, 1994-

1998

Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’ Università et della Ricerca (Ministry for Education, University and

Research), Rome, 2003-

Agence Nationale de la Recherche, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2014


Hogeschool Gent, 2006

National Science Council of Taiwan, Evaluation of scientific journals, 2006

Swiss National Science Foundation, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010, 2011

Institut Universitaire de France, 2010

Danish Research Foundation, 2011, 2012

Academy of Finland, chair of expert committee for call on Hungarian Finnish research cooperation,

2013

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, expert committees, Berlin 2010, Leipzig, 2013, Düsseldorf

2015, Bonn 2017

Ministry of Science, Kazakhstan, 2014

Member of the expert committee on Linguistics of the Academy of Finland, 2017-2018 (Chair 2018)

Member of the expert committee Language and Literature for the Flemish Research Council

2000-2009 (Chair 2006-2009)

Member of the expert committee on Social Sciences and Humanities (SH3), Le Fonds de la Recherche

Scientifique, Belgium 2010-2015

Member of expert committees on Social Sciences and Humanities, Agence Nationale de la Recherche,

France 2011-2012, 2013-2014

Member of the binational expert committee on Dutch Language, Culture and History

(Flemish and Dutch Research Councils), 2000-2012

Member of the advisory committee of the Indian Institute of Language Studies, New Delhi, 2005-

Member of the Linguistics Expert panel, European Science Foundation, project “European Reference

Index for the Humanities”, 2005-2010

Member of the expert committee on “The Complexity of the Human Mind”, Starter Grants, European

Research Council, 2006-2013

Referee or council member in employment, tenure and promotion affairs: Cambridge, Regensburg,

Albuquerque, Strasbourg, Marburg, National University of Singapore, Uppsala, Shanghai Jiao

Tong University, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Member of the advisory board, Festival of Languages, University of Bremen, 2009

Member of the scientific committee of The Center for Postgraduate Education and Research on

Languages of Europe: Typology, History and Sociolinguistics (LETiSS), Pavia, 2009-

Member of the scientific committee of the Collegium de Lyon, Lyon, 2011-2021

Member of the Linguistics expert committee (VIDI grants), Dutch Science Foundation, (NWO), 2017-

2021

Member of the Linguistics expert committee, Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council, 2011-2014


Member of the Linguistics expert committee, Det Frie Forskningsråd / Danish Research Council, 2012-

2013

Member of the Linguistics expert committee, Forskningsråd / The Research Council of Norway, 2015-

2017

Member of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Expert committee on Centres of Excellence,

Forskningsråd / The Research Council of Norway, 2021

Member of the Humanities expert committee, INSPIRE doctoral program, Université Sorbonne – Paris

Cité, 2015-2017

Research assessment

Member of the expert committee on behalf of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie voor

Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences), of the Fryske Academy (Frisian Academy),

The Netherlands, 2009

Chair of the expert committee on behalf of the Agence d’évaluation de la recherche et de

l’enseignement supérieur (Agency for the evaluation of research and higher education) of the

Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistique (Federation for typology and language

univerals). France, 2013

Chair of the expert committee on behalf of the University of Tampere, of the Faculty of Arts,

University of Tampere, Finland, 2014

Member of the expert committee for Nordic Languages and Linguistics in Norway, Forskningsråd

/ The Research Council of Norway, 2016

Teaching assessment

Member of the expert committee for the Curriculum Review for Majors in English Studies,

Language and Communication, General Linguistics and China Studies of the University of Hong

Kong, 2017

Organization of the conferences and workshops

Colloquium on Determiners, University of Antwerp (UIA), Feb 21- 22 1979

(with W. Vandeweghe) Symposium on Dutch Particles, University of Antwerp (UIA), May 31 1983

(with S. Savič) Workshop “Between Semantics and Pragmatics”, Inter-University Centre of Post-

Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, May 7-18 1984, May 13-24 1985

(with G. De Schutter, L. Goossens, & J. Nuyts (all Antwerp)) Second International Conference on

Functional Grammar, University of Antwerp (UIA), Sept 2-5 1986

(with M. Kefer) Colloquium on Language Universals, December Meeting of the Belgian

Linguistics Circle, Antwerp, Dec 9-10 1988


(with B. Kortmann) Workshop (‘Arbeitsgruppe’) on the typology of Causal, Conditional, and

Concessive Sentences, 14th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft,

Bremen, Feb 26-28 1992

(with C. Braecke, G. De Schutter, B. Devriendt, L. Goossens, J. Nuyts, and J. van den Hauwe) 5th

International Conference on Functional Grammar, University of Antwerp (UIA-UFSIA), Aug 24-

28 1992

(with R. Thieroff (Bonn)) Arbeitsgruppe ‘Sprachbund-Phänomene in Europa’, Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Halle, Ma 4-6 1998

(with P. Dendale) Colloquium on Germanic and Romance modal verbs, December Meeting of the

Belgian Linguistics Circle, Antwerp, Dec 1998

(with J. Nuyts), Conference on Cognitive Typology, Antwerpen April 2000

within EUROTYP project (Typology of the languages of Europe), sponsored by the European

Science Foundation, Strasbourg

(with core group) Plenary meetings in Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy (May 21-25 1991), San

Sebastian, Spain (Sept 2-5 1992), Obernai (March 27-30 1994)

(with local contact person) Theme group workshops:

Planning meeting, Antwerpen, 23 Ma 1990

‘Phasal adverbs’, Madrid, 29 Nov - 1 Dec 1990

‘Adverbial quantification’, ‘Adverbial subordinators’, Berlin, 28-30 Nov 1991

‘Adverbial clauses’, Dublin, 23-25 Apr 1992

‘Determiners’, Antwerpen, 27-30 Aa 1993

‘Concessive conditionals’, ‘Location’, Strasbourg, 1-3 Apr 1993

Meeting on conclusions, Brussel, 26-27 June 1993

‘Repetition and Reversal’, ‘Sentence adverbs’, Pavia, 23-25 Sept 1993

Meetings on conclusions, Björstorp, 5-8 Oct 1994

Core group meeting in Brussels (June 11-12 1993)

[further

Preparatory meetings in Rome (Jan 7-9 1988) and Colchester (July 7-8 1989)

Core group meetings in Bonn (Jan 8-9 1990), Strasbourg (May 30-31 1990), Paris (January

11-12 1991), Cambridge (January 10-11 1992)

Task force meeting on questionnaires, Stockholm (September 15 1991)]

within ALT (Association for Linguistic Typology)

Inaugural Conference, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Sept 7-10 1995

Regional Workshop on Modality, Antwerp, Nov 8-9 Nov 1996

Biennial International Conference: Eugene Oregon, Sept 1997, Amsterdam, Aug 1999;

Santa Barbara, July 2001; Cagliari, September 2003, Padang, July 2005, Paris Sept 2007

Parallel session on ‘Tense, aspect and modality’, 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul,

July 2008


(with V. Gast) Workshop “Indefinites in diachronic and comparative perspective” 44th Annual

Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño, Sept 2011.

(with J. Moeschler & C. Mauri) Panel “The semantics and pragmatics of logical words: a cross-

linguistic perspective”, International Congress of Linguists, Geneva. July 2013

(with O. Krasnoukhova. Workshop on ‘The typology of postverbal negation’, 20th International

Congress of Linguists, Capetown, July 2018

Membership of scientific committees of the following conferences

Seminar on Linguistic Typology, Granada Ma 1997 / "From NP to DP" - International Conference

on the Syntax and Pragma-semantics of Noun phrases, Antwerp, Feb 2000 / 3rd Conference of the

European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Ghent Sept 2003 / 2nd Conference on Modality in

English, Pau Sept 2004 / Workshop on Balkan clitics, Brussels Dec 2004 / 3rd International

Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, Shanghai Sept 2005 / “The Study of

Language and Translation”, Ghent, Jan 2006 / “La quantification et ses domaines”, Strasbourg, Oct

2006 /Conference Chronos 7, Temps, Aspect et Modalité, Antwerp Sept 2006 / “Varieties of

Voice”, Leuven, Dec 2006 / “Commitment”, Antwerp Jan 2007 / New Reflexions on

Grammaticalization, 4”, Leuven, July 2008 / 2nd Conference on Utterance Interpretation and

Cognitive Models, Brussels, July 2008 / Workshop on Irrealisness, Forlì, Sept 2008 / Conference

on “Verb typologies”, Ghent, February 2009 / “Langue française en contextes”, Neufchâtel, Sept

2009 /Conference Chronos 9, Temps, Aspect et Modalité, Paris, Sept 2009 /3rd Conference on

Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models, Brussels, Feb 2010 / Space and Time across

Languages, Disciplines and Cultures, Cambridge, April 2010 / 43rd Annual Meeting of the

Societas Linguistica Europaea, Vilnius, Sept 2010 / Chronos 10, Birmingham, April 2011 / Moscow

Syntax and Semantics 2, April 2011 / Colloque International Inter-langues “Les modalités”, Rouen,

May 2011 / Workshop “Modality in the indigenous languages of Australia and PNG” Australian

Linguistic Society, Canberra, Dec 2011 / Conference on Grammaticalization Theory and Data,

Rouen May 2012 / ICAME 33, Leuven, May 2012 / New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5,

Edinburgh, July 2012 / Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française, Session de sémantique, Lyon,

July 2012 / 5th International Conference on Modern Greek dialects and Linguistic Theory, Sep 2012

/ 4th Conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models, Brussels, Sep 2013 / 46th

Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Split, Sept 2013 / 6th International

Conference on Corpus Linguistics, Gran Canaria, May 2014 / 18th International Conference of

English Historical Linguistics, Leuven, July 2014 / 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica

Europaea, Poznan, Sept 2014 / International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European

Languages, Madrid, Oct 2014 / Workshop “Models for modality annotation”, International

Conference on Computational Semantics, London, April 2015 / 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas

Linguistica Europaea, Leiden, Sept 2015 / 5th Conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive

Models, Brussels, Sept 2015 / Spring meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, May 2016 /

Conference “New ways of analyzing syntactic variation 2”, Gent, May 2016 / Conference

“Diachronic generative syntax 18”, Gent, June 2016 / 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas

Linguistica Europaea, Napels, Sept 2016 / Temps, aspect, modalité, évidentialité, Paris, Nov 2016

/ 23rd International Conference of Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, TX, Aug 2017 / The

Linguistic Association of Finland, Helsinki, August 2017 / 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas

Linguistica Europaea, Zürich, Sept 2017 / Colloque 'Nommer l'humain', Strasbourg, Jan 2018 /

International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literatures 13, Mysore, Jan 2018 / 51th


Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn, Sept 2018 / Spring meeting of the

Belgian Linguistics Circle, May 2018 / International Conference on Modality and Evidentiality,

Madrid, Sept 2018 / 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig, Aug 2019

/ International workshop ‘Comparative constructions: linguistic typology at the crossreads’,

Bologna, May 2020 / Spring meeting of the Belgian Linguistics Circle, May 2020 / 53rd Annual

Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bucharest / Aug 2020 Chronos 14, Boulogne-sur-

Mer, October 2020

Grants, projects

1 Personal

1.1 Research Fund University of Antwerp

1.1.1 Predoctoral fellowships

Oct 2012-June 2014: D. Du Mon: Modal harmony

1.1.2 Post-doctoral fellowships

Oct 1986-June 1987: D. Kučanda (Yugoslavia) ‘Subject and object assignment in Serbo-

Croatian’ (204.000 BEF)

May-Aug 1991: I. Boguslavsky (Russia) : ‘Adverbs and valency’ (310.000 BEF)

Jan-Sept 1993: I. Nedyalkov (Russia) : ‘Converbs in the languages of Europe’ (in connection

with EUROTYP project) (274.000 BEF)

1994-1996: J Nuyts: study of the linguistic and the conceptual structure of epistemic

modality’, (3.984.000 BEF) (040S.2096)

Jan-July 1997: V. Plungian (Russia): ‘Modaliteit in lexicon and grammatica’ (210.000 BEF)

July-Dec 1997: D.N.S. Bhat (India): ‘Modaliteit in de Indische talen’ (400.000 BEF)

Oct 1999- June 2000: N. Dobroshina (Russia): ‘The subjunctive in the world’s languages’

(12.571 €)

Oct 1999 - June 2000: P. Umarani (India): ‘The expression of modality in the Dravidian

languages’ (12.571 €)

Ma 2001 – Nov 2001: A. Malchukov (Russia): ‘Towards a typology of transcategorial

operations’ (12.493 €)

Ma 2002 – Nov 2002: N. Gabas (Brazil): ‘On the typology of ideophones’ (15.815 €)

Feb 2003 – Oct 2003: N. Sumbatova (Russia): ‘Predication and information’ (13.410 €)

Nov 2003 - Nov 2004: L. Mahamane Abdoulaye (Niger): ‘On the origin and development

of “relative marking” – with special reference to West African languages (25.000 €)

Nov 2005 - May 2006: M. Miestamo (Finland) “Non-declarative negation” (14.400 €)

Jan 2006 - June 2006: A. Vittrant (France) “Modality in Burmese” (14.820 €)

1.1.3. Matching funds

to NFWO Grant, 1988-1990: ‘The structure of Antwerp Yiddish’ (100.000 BEF)

to ‘Small project European Science Foundation’: 1990: ‘already and still in the languages

of Europe’ (18.000 BEF)

1997: Library grant: ‘Modality in the languages of the world’ (100.000 BEF)


1.2 (N)FWO ((Belgian National) Science Foundation - Research Foundation Flanders)

1.2.1. Predoctoral fellowships

2002-2005: The mediterranean linguistic area, A. Ammann (300.000 €)

2006-2010: The imperative in English and Dutch, D. Van Olmen (300.000 €))

2010-2013: The typology of indefinite pronouns: L. Van Alsenoy

2010-2014: The present perfective puzzle: A. De Wit

1.2.2. Postdoctoral fellowships

2006-2009 Proper names as a grammatical category: a typological investigation, M. Van de

Velde (208.178 €)

2011-2013 The genesis of the French verbal system: A. Patard (250.000 €)

1.2.3. Projects

1988-1990: ‘The structure of Antwerp Yiddish’ (100.000 BEF)

1991-1993: ‘Adverbs of continuation and change in the languages of Europe’ (120.000 BEF)

1994-1996: ‘Typology of the modal auxiliary’ (150.000 BEF)

2009-2012: The Jespersen cycles (239.200 €)

2017-2020: Post-verbal negation in South-Amereica (338.000 €)

1.3 Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts

2002: Guest professor: V. Plungian (Russia) ‘The typology of the pluperfect’ (14.999 €)

1.4. European Science Foundation

1990-1994: Grant (50.000 FF)

1990: ‘Small grant’ ‘already and still in the languages of Europe’ (3.000 FF)

1.5. European Union

M. Curie Intra European Fellowship (postdoc)

2009-2010 AMITy - The Aspect-Modality interface: a Typological perspective, A. Patard

(150.800 €)

[1.6. Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD):

Apr-July 1994: T. Leuschner (BRD): Concessive clauses in Germanic languages’

1.7. Berlin Senat (Promotionsstipendium laut NAFÖG):

Sept 1994-May 1995: T. Leuschner (BRD): ‘Concessive clauses in Germanic languages’ ]


2 Collaborative

2.1 Research Fund University of Antwerp

Jan 2001 - Aug 2003: with Universities of Ghent, Leyden and Amsterdam, and the Meertens

Institute (Royal Dutch Academy of Science): ‘A syntactic atlas of the Dutch dialects’ (9.915

€)

Jan 2003 – Dec 2006: with J. Nuyts & T. Mortelmans ‘Mood and Modality’ (04R.5587)

(589.000 €)

2.2 (N)FWO ((Belgian National) Science Foundation - Research Foundation Flanders)

Jan 1998 - Dec 2001: with L. Goossens & G. De Schutter: ‘Modality: Typology, cognition,

and grammar’ (214.774 €) (G.0087.98), Onderzoeksgemeenschap Taal en Cognitie

[Research consortium Language and Cognition]

1996-2001: ‘Grammaticalisation and cognition’, (UA-part 500.000 BEF)

Jan 2003 – Dec 2006: with University of Ghent and Leuven: A study of iconicity (UA-part

8.000 €)

2.2 FWO-NWO (Belgian and Dutch Science Foundations)

Jan 2000 - Dec 2003: with Universities of Ghent, Leyden and Amsterdam, and the Meertens

Institute (Royal Dutch Academy of Science): ‘A syntactic atlas of the Dutch dialects’ (UA-

part: 202.677 €)

2.3 European Science Foundation

1990-1995: EUROTYP project, ‘Typology of the languages of Europe’ (7.500.000 FF)

2.4. Belgian Federal Science Policy

2007-2011: Interuniversity attraction pole on ‘Grammaticalization and

(Inter)subjectivization’: core group, collaboration with the Universities of Leuven,

Louvain, Ghent and Hannover and the Africa Museum (Tervuren) (805.000 €)

Editorial activities:

Managing editor of the Antwerp papers in linguistics (1977-1980)

Correspondent for the Bibliography de la Philosophie (Paris: Vrin), Oct 1982 - Oct 1984

Editor

(with E. König), Monograph series Germanic Linguistics Series, London: Routledge, 1988-

IPRA Bulletin [= Bulletin of the International Pragmatics Association], June 1987 - Dec 1990

EUROTYP Working Papers Series V, Strasbourg: European Science Foundation (1990-1994)

Editor-in-chief

Linguistics (Berlin: Mouton, http://www.degruyter.de/journals/linguistics/detailEn.cfm), 2005-


Editor and moderator

(with F. Plank and B. Comrie / M. Mithun /N. Evans) of ALT News, e-mail list of the Association

for Linguistic Typology, 1995-2007

Advisory editor

series:

LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics (München: LINCOM) 1994-

Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface (London: Elsevier) 1997-

Studia Typologica (Berlin: Akademie) 2012-

Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2015-2018

journals:

Journal of Pragmatics (Amsterdam: North-Holland), 1988-2004

Cultural Dynamics (The Hague: Nijhoff, from 1994 London: Sage), 1988-1997

Linguistic Typology (Berlin: Mouton), 1996-1999

Language Design (Granada: Método Ediciones), 1998

Rivista di Linguistica (Pisa: Pacini), 1999-2003

Jezikoslovje (Osijek), 2002-

Linguistics (Berlin: Mouton), 2003-2005

Bell – Belgian Studies in English Language and Literature (Amsterdam, Benjamins), 2003-

2005

Belgian Journal of Linguistics (Amsterdam: Benjamins), 2003-2006

South Asian Language Review, 2006-

外国语 (Wai guo yu - Journal of Foreign Languages) 2006-

English Text Construction (Amsterdam, Benjamins) 2007-

Langages (Paris, Armand Collin) 2010-

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia (Abingdon, Taylor & Francis) 2014-

Regular refereeing for other journals (about 10 reports a year)

Member of the comité scientifique of the Société de Linguistique de Paris, 2008-

Membership of scientific associations (at present):

Belgische Kring voor Linguistiek [Belgian Linguistics Circle], Algemene Vereniging voor

Taalwetenschap [Dutch Linguistics Association], Deutsche Gemeinschaft für Sprachwissenschaft

[German Linguistics Association], Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the

Americas, Linguistic Society of India, Dravidian Linguistics Association of India, Belgian

Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, Sociéte de Linguistique de Paris

as officer:

Societas Linguistica Europaea

Elected Member Nominating Committee 1995-1999 (Chairman in 1999)

Elected President 2005

Elected Vice-president 2006

Association for Linguistic Typology

Founding member (Ma 1994), ‘Officer’ up to the election (Ma 1994 - Nov 1995), Elected secretary

and treasurer (Nov 1995-2007)


Cerlityp (French typological circle)

Founding member, council member (Nov 2002-Nov 2004)

Elected council member (Nov 2004-)

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

1975 Semantic and pragmatic presupposition. Antwerpen: Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA).

[=Antwerp papers in linguistics 2] 118 p.

1978 Inleiding tot de linguistische pragmatiek. [Introduction to linguistic semantics] Leuven: ACCO.

[= Kennismaking met de linguistiek 4] VII + 153 p.

1978 Indirect speech acts revisited. Antwerpen: Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA). [=Antwerp papers in

linguistics 16] 79 p.

1980 Reprint of Indirect speech acts revisited. Bloomington, IND: Indiana University Linguistics

Club. 78 p.

Regaining speculative grammar. Speech acts, logic, and focus. Ann Arbor, MI: University

Microfilms Int. XII + 520 p. [RTA 81-70019]

1981 What do we talk about when we talk? Speculative Grammar and the semantics and pragmatics

of focus. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. VI + 121 p. [= Pragmatics and Beyond II.3]

1985 Language and logic. A speculative and condition-theoretic study. Amsterdam & Philadelphia:

John Benjamins. XIV + 260 p. [=Pragmatics and Beyond Companion Series 3] (Revision of

Regaining Speculative Grammar)

2008 (S. Barbiers, _, H. Bennis, G. De Vogelaer & M. van der Ham) Syntactische atlas van de

Nederlandse dialecten. Deel II. Amsterdam: University Press.

(S. Barbiers, _, H. Bennis, G. De Vogelaer & M. van der Ham) Syntactic atlas of the Dutch

dialects. Part II. Amsterdam: University Press (87 maps, 78 pages)

Edited works

1980 The semantics of determiners. London: Croom Helm & Baltimore: University Park Press. 311

p.

1983 Theme issue on “conditionals”, Journal of Pragmatics 7.243-323.

1984 (_ & W. Vandeweghe) Studies over Nederlandse Partikels. [Studies on Dutch particles]

Antwerpen: Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA). [=Antwerp papers in linguistics 35] 144 p.

1987 (_ & L. Goossens) Ins and Outs of the Predication. Dordrecht & Providence RI: Foris.

[=Functional Grammar Series 6] XIV + 218 p.


1989 (M. Kefer & _) Theme issue on ‘Universals of Language’, Belgian Journal of Linguistics 4.

193 p.

1991 Adverbialia. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. [=EUROTYP Working Papers V.1] 67

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Structures. ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie (eds.), Oxford: Oxford

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(_ , L. Lejeune, V. Goussev & P. Umarani) “The morphological imperative”, “The prohibitive”,

World Atlas of Language Structures. ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie

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(_ & A. Malchukov) “A semantic map for depictive adjectivals”, Secondary predication and

adverbial modification: the typology of depictives. ed. by E. Schultze-Bernd & N. P.

Himmelmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 393-421.

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B. Hansen & P. Karlík (eds.) Modality in Slavonic Languages, New Perspectives. München:

Sagner, 201-217.

(_ & A. Ammann with S. Kindt) “Modal polyfunctionality and Standard Average European”

Modality. Studies in Form and Function. ed. by A. Klinge & H. Høeg Müller. London: Equinox,

247-272.

“Prohibitives: why two thirds of the world’s languages are unlike Dutch”, Proceedings of the

Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium. December 19-21, 2005 ed. by P. Dekker & M. Francke,

Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, ILLC, 25-30.

(E. Schalley & _) “On synthetic and analytic imperatives in Slavic”, Slavica Gandensia 32:

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2006 “Imperatives”, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd ed. ed, by K. Brown. Oxford:

Elsevier, 5: 565-7.

(_ & C. Temürcü) “Semantic maps in Typology”, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.

2nd ed. ed, by K. Brown. Oxford: Elsevier, 11: 131-4.

“Why languages prefer prohibitives”,外国语 (Wai guo yu - Journal of Foreign Languages)

161: 2-25.

(& M. Taeymans) “More on the ancestors of need”, M. Rissanen & R. Facchinetti (eds.) Corpus

Linguistics Studies in Diachronic English. Bern: Peter Lang, 37-52.

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verschijnsel” ̧Het morfologisch landschap van het Nederlandsi. ed. by L. Cornips, M. Van

Oostendorp & G. De Schutter. Gent: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal-en

Letterkunde [Themanummer Taal en Tongval 19], 212-230.

(_, L. De Cuypere & A. Neuckermans) “Negative indefinites: A typological and diachronic

perspective on a Brabantic construction”, Types of variation. Diachronic, dialectal and

typological interfaces. ed. by T. Nevalainen, J. Klemola & M. Laitinen. Amsterdam:

Benjamins, 305-319.

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Universalienforschung 59: 317-349.

2007 “De la linguistique diachronique à la typologie: le prohibitif”, Problèmes de sémantique et de

syntaxe. Hommage à André Rousseau. ed. by L. Begioni & C. Muller. Lille : Université

Charles-de-Gaulle, 197-202.

(L. Roels, T. Mortelmans & _) “Dutch equivalents of the German past conjunctive: zou +

infinitive and the modal preterit, Tense, mood and aspect: theoretical and descriptive issues.

ed. by L. de Saussure, J. Moeschler & G. Puskas. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 177-196.

(M. Miestamo & _) “Negative declaratives and negatives imperatives - similarities and

differences”, Linguistics festival. May 2006, Bremen. ed. by A. Ammann. Bremen:

Brockmeyer, 59-77.

(L. De Cuypere, _ & K. Willems) “Double negation and iconicity”, Insistent images. ed. by E.

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(_ & J. Nuyts) “Cognitive linguistics and typology”, Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. ed. by

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2008 (_ & Hana Filip) “(Tense,) Aspect, mood and modality - an imperfect 2008 state of the

art report”, Unity and diversity of languages. ed. by P. van Sterkenburg. Amsterdam:

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“In defense of classical semantic maps”, Theoretical Linguistics 34: 39-46.


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constructions prohibitives rétrospectives”, Linguista sum : Mélanges offerts à Marc Dominicy

à l’occasion de son soixantième anniversaire. ed. by E. Danblon, M. Khissin, F. Martin,C.

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9: 35-51.

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(_& A. Ammann) “Situational possibility”, “Epistemic possibility”, “Overlap between

epistemic and situational possibility” The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, ed. by

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(_, N. Dobrushina & V. Goussev) “Imperative-Hortative systems”, The World Atlas of

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Max Planck Digital Library, chapter 72. Available at http://wals.info/feature/72. (Revision of

2005 paper)

(_, L. Lejeune, V. Goussev & P. Umarani) “The morphological imperative”, “The prohibitive”,

The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. S. Dryer, D. Gil &

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2009 (D. Van Olmen, T. Mortelmans & _) ”Grammaticalization and subjectification of the future.

The case of English, Dutch and German’, Cognitive approaches to language and linguistic

data. Studies in Honor of Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk. ed. by W. Oleksy & P.

Stalmaszczyk. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 285-306.

“The Jespersen cycles”, Cyclical change, ed. by E. van Gelderen. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 35-

71.

(_, A. Malchukov & E. Schalley) “Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives”, Form and

Function in Language Research. Papers in Honour of Christian Lehmann. ed. by J.

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“Deutsch als eine/die durchschnittseuropäische Sprache”, Unsere sprachlichen Nachbarn in

Europa. Die Kontaktbeziehungen zwischen Deutsch und seinen Grenznachbarn. ed. by C.

Stolz. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 175-187.

(D. Noël & _) “Revisiting 'be supposed to' from a diachronic constructionist perspective”,

English Studies 90: 599-623.

(T. Mortelmans, K. Boye, & _) “Modals in the Germanic languages”, Modals in the Languages

of Europe. A Reference Work, ed by B. Hansen & F. De Haan. Berlin: Mouton, 11-69.


(_, P. Kehayov & A. Vittrant) “Acquisitive modals”, Cross-linguistic Studies of Tense, Aspect,

and Modality. ed by L. Hogeweg, H. De Hoop & A. Malchukov. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 271-

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(_ & M. Taeymans) “The need modals and their polarity” Corpora and Discourse – and Stuff.

Papers in Honour of Karin Aijmer. ed. by R. Bowen, M. Mobärg & S Ohlander (eds.).

Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 317-326.

2010 “Prohibition: constructions and markers”, Contrasting meaning in languages of the East and

West. ed. by D. Shu & K. Turner. Tübingen: Narr, 443-475.

(M. Van de Velde & _) “Le marqueur de l’allocutif pluriel dans les languages bantu”, Essais

de Linguistique Générale et de Typologie linguistique offerts à Denis Creissels, ed by. F.

Floricic, Paris : Presses de l'École Normale Supérieure, 119-141.

“On the diachrony of negation”, The expression of negation. ed. by L. R. Horn. Berlin: Mouton

de Gruyter, 73-101.

(V. Gast & _) “Vers une typologie des opérateurs additifs scalaires”, Approches de la scalarité.

ed. by P. Hadermann & O. Inkova. Genève: Droz, 285-311.

“Vers une typologie du prohibitif”, La négation et les énoncés non susceptibles d’être niés.

ed. by F. Floricic & R. Lambert-Brétière. Paris : CNRS, 155-172

(__, E. Schalley & G. De Vogelaer) “Analogie und die Verbreitung der verbalen Kongruenz

bei Imperativen, Konjunktionen und Antwortpartikeln”, Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung

Typen formaler Resegmentierung und semantischer Remotivierung. ed. by R. Harnisch. Berlin:

De Gruyter, 269-305

(A. Vittrant & _) “Epistemic modality or how to express likelihood in Burmese”, Cahiers de

Linguistique – Asie orientale 39: 41-80.

(P. Byloo, J. Nuyts & _) “Beter en best”, Voor Magda. Artikelen voor Magda Devos bij haar

afscheid van de Universiteit Gent. ed. by J. De Caluwe & J. Van Keymeulen. Gent: Academia

Press, 93-109.

(G. De Vogelaer & _) “When typological rara generate rarissima: analogical extension of verbal

agreement in Dutch dialects”, Rara & Rarissima: Collecting and interpreting unusual

characteristics of human language. ed. by Wohlgemuth & M. Cysouw. Berlin: Mouton, 47-

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(_& A. De Wit) “The English comparative modals - a pilot study”, Distinctions in English

Grammar, Offered to Renaat Declerck. ed. by Cappelle, B. & N. Wada. Tokyo: Kaitakusha,

127-147.

(M. Devos, M. Kasombo Tshibanda & _) “Jespersen cycles in Kanincin: double, triple and

maybe even quadruple negation”, Africana Linguistica 16: 155-182.

2011 (_ & V. Gast) “Categories and prototypes”, The Oxford Handbook of Typology. ed. by J. Song.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 166-189.


(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “Mapping indefiniteness: towards a Neo-Aristotelian approach”, Selected

Papers from the 19th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,

Thessaloniki April 2009. ed. by E. Kitis, N. Lavidas, N. Topintzi & T. Tsangalidis.

Thessaloniki: Monochromia, 1-14.

(M. Miestamo & _ ) “Negation and perfective vs. imperfective aspect”, Cahiers Chronos 22:

65-84.

(_ & D. Noël) “Raising: Dutch between English and German”, Journal of Germanic Linguistics

23: 1-36.

(V. Gast & _) “Scalar additive operators in the languages of Europe”, Language 87: 2-54.

“Standard Average European”, The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A comprehensive

guide. ed. by B. Kortmann & J. van der Auwera. Berlin: Mouton, 291-306.

(H. Narrog & _) “Grammaticalization and semantic maps”, Handbook of Grammaticalization,

ed. by H. Narrog & B. Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 318-327.

(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “Indefinite pronouns, synchrony and diachrony – Comments on Willis”,

The evolution of negation: Beyond the Jespersen cycle. ed. by P. Larrivée & R. Ingham. Berlin:

Mouton, 325-346.

2012 (_ & M. Devos) “Irrealis in positive imperatives and prohibitives”, Language Sciences 34: 171-

183.

“From contrastive linguistics to linguistic typology”, Languages in Contrast 12: 69-86.

(_, D. Noël & A. De Wit) “The diverging need (to)’s of Asian Englishes”, Mapping Unity and

Diversity World-Wide. Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes. ed. by M. Hundt & U. Gut.


(A. Goldberg & _) “This is to count as a construction”, Folia Linguistica 46: 109-132.

(C. Mauri & _) “Connectives”, The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics ed. by K. Allen & K.

Jaszczolt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 377-401.

(T. Stolz, H. Otsuka & A. Urdze & _) “Irregularity – glimpses of a ubiquitous phenomenon”,

Irregularity in Morphology (and Beyond). ed. by T. Stolz, H. Otsuka, A. Urdze & _. Berlin:

Akademie Verlag, 7-37.

(V. Gast & _) “What is ‘contact-induced grammaticalization? Evidence from Mayan and Mixe-

Zoquean languages”, Grammatical replication and borrowability in language contact. ed. by

Bj. Wiemer, B. Wälchli & Bj. Hansen. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 381-426.

(_ & G. Diewald) “Methods for modalities”, Methods in Contemporary Linguistics. ed. by A.

Ender, A. Leemann & B. Wälchli. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 121-142.

(E. Coussé & _) “Impersonal pronouns in Swedish and Dutch. A contrastive study of man and

men”, Languages in Contrast 12: 121-138.


“Wat het Nederlands ons kan leren over de Jespersencyclus” [“What Dutch can teach us about

the Jespersen cycle”], Nederlandse Taalkunde 17: 403-413.

“Wat het Nederlands ons kan leren over de Jespersencyclus – een repliek” [“What Dutch can

teach us about the Jespersen cycle – a reply”], Nederlandse Taalkunde 17: 421-422.

(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “Indefiniteness maps: problems, prospects, and ‘retrospects’’, Usare il

presente per spiegare il passato. Teorie linguistiche comtemporanee e lingue storiche. ed. by

L. Melazzo. [Roma: ] Il Calamo, 13-26.

(_, V. Gast & J. Vanderbiesen) “Human impersonal pronouns in English, Dutch and German”,

Leuvense Bijdragen 98: 27-64.

2013 (V. Gast & _) “Scalar additive operators in Transeurasian languages - A comparison with

Europe”, Shared grammaticalization – With special focus on the Transeurasian languages. ed.

by M. Robbeets & H. Cuyckens. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 113-145.

“Semantic maps: for synchrony and diachrony”, Synchrony and diachrony: a dynamic

interface. ed. by A. Giacalone Ramat, C. Mauri & P. Molinelli. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 153-

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“Linguistic Sciences celebrates its 10th anniversary”, 语言科学 [Linguistic Sciences] 12: 7.

(_, F. Vossen & M. Devos) “Le cycle de Jespersen à trois ou quatre négations”, La linguistique

de la contradiction, ed. by J. François, P. Larrivée, D. Legallois & F. Neveu. Bruxelles: Lang,

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(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “Vers un cube des oppositions”, La linguistique de la contradiction, ed.

by J. François, P. Larrivée, D. Legallois & F. Neveu. Bruxelles: Lang, 147-158.

“Linguistics, the first fifty years ... and a little more”¸ Linguistics 51 Jubilee 1-8.

(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “Mapping the West Germanic any’s”, Beyond ‘ever’ and ‘any’ new

explorations in negative polarity items, ed. by E. Csipak, R. Eckardt, M. Liu & M. Sailer.

Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 21-45.

(V. Gast & _) “Towards a distributional typology of human impersonal pronouns, based on data

from European languages”, Languages across Boundaries: Studies in the Memory of Anna

Siewierska. ed. by D. Bakker & M. Haspelmath. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 119-158.

(M. Devos & _) “Jespersen cycles in Bantu: double and triple negation”, Journal of African

Languages and Linguistics 34: 205-274.

(_, D. Noël & A. Van linden) “Had better, ’d better and better: diachronic and transatlantic

variation”, English modality: core, periphery and evidentiality. ed. by J. I. Marín Arrese, M.

Carretero, J. Arús Hita & J. van der Auwera. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 119-153.

2014 (_ & P. Gybels) “On negation, indefinites and negative indefinites in Yiddish”, Yiddish

Language Structures. ed. by Bj. Hansen & M. Aptrot. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 193-249.


(D. Nöel, B. Van Rooy & _) “Diachronic approaches to modality in World Englishes:

Introduction to the special issue”, Journal of English Englishes 42: 3-6.

“More ado about *nall”, Papers dedicated to Jacques Moeschler. ed. by J. Blochowiak, C.

Grisot, S. Durrleman-Tame &C. Laenzlinger.

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(L. Van Alsenoy & _) “On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord”,

The diachrony of negation. ed. by M.-B. Mosegaard-Hansen & J. Visconti. Amsterdam:

Benjamins, 13-46.

(F. Vossen & _) “The Jespersen cycles seen from Austronesian”, The diachrony of negation.

ed. by M.-B. Mosegaard-Hansen & J. Visconti. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 47-83.

(D. Van Olmen & _) “Over zo'n en zo meer” [About zo'n and the like], Patroon en argument.

Een dubbelfeestalbum bij het emeritaat van William Van Belle en Joop van der Horst. [Pattern

and argument. A double Festschrift, for William Van Belle & Joop van der Horst]. ed. by F.

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2015 (D. Noël & _) “Recent quantitative changes in the use of modals and quasi-modals in the Hong

Kong, British and American printed press: Exploring the potential of Factiva@ for the

diachronic investigation of World Englishes”, Grammatical change in English world-wide. Ed.

by P. Collins. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 437-464.

(_ & D. Du Mon) “Negation, Linguistics of”, International Encyclopedia of the Social and

Behavioral Sciences. Vol. 16. 2nd edition. ed. by J. Wright Oxford: Elsevier, 409-414. [Revision

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(L. Van Alsenoy & _) “Indefinite pronouns in Uralic languages”, Negation in Uralic languages.

ed. by M. Miestamo, B. Wagner-Nagy & A. Tamm. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 519-546.

(_, D. Van Olmen & D. Du Mon) “Grammaticalization”, The Mouton Handbook of Cognitive

Linguistics. ed. by E. Dąbrowska & D. Divjak. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 633-649.

“Al voor Ad”, Addenda: artikelen voor Ad Foolen. ed. by S. Lestrade, P.J.F. de Swart & L.

Hogeweg. Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit, 449-452.

“Les indéfinis négatifs dans les langues créoles”. Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique

française 32: 27-43.

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(_ & K. Sahoo) “On comparative concepts and descriptive categories, such as they are”, Acta

Linguistica Hafniensia 47: 136-173.

(& F. Vossen) “Negatives between Chamic and Bahnaric”, Journal of the Southeast Asian

Linguistics Society 8: 24-38.

(_ & A. Patard) “Le français, la plus germanique des langues romanes?”, Faits de langue(s).

Pour Michel Kefer à l’occasion de son 65ième anniversaire. ed by L. Brems, R. Möller & L.

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2016 (_ & A. Zamorano Aguilar) “The history of modality and mood”, The Oxford handbook of

modality and mood. ed.by J. Nuyts & J. van der Auwera. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 9-

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(D. Van Olmen & _) “Modality and mood in Standard Average European”, The Oxford

Handbook of modality and mood. ed. by J. Nuyts & J. van der Auwera. Oxford: Oxford

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(_ & F. Vossen) “Jespersen Cycles in the Mayan, Quechuan and Maipurean languages”.

Cyclical change continued. ed. by E. Van Gelderen. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 189-218.

Reprint of (_ & I. Genee) “English ‘do’: on the convergence of languages and linguists”,

http://journals.cambridge.org/ELL20, 20th Anniversary Collection English Language and

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(_ & E. Coussé) “Such and sådan – the same but different”. Nordic Journal of English Studies

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(_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “On the typology of negative concord”. Studies in Language 40: 473-

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(_, L. Veselinova & M. Dočekal) “Typologie negace” [On the typology of negation], Czech

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2017 “Englishes, English Creoles and their negative indefinites”, Negation and contact: with special

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(_ & F. Vossen) “Kiranti double negation: a copula conjecture”, Linguistics of the Tibeto-

Burman Area 40: 40-58.

(_ & D. van Olmen) “The Germanic languages and areal linguistics”, The Cambridge

Handbook of Areal Linguistics. ed. by R. Hickey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

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(A. Patard & _) “The French comparative modal constructions faire mieux de, valoir mieux

and falloir mieux”, Aspects of Grammaticalization. (Inter)subjectification, Unidirectionality

and Analogy. ed. by D. Van Olmen, H. Cuyckens & L. Ghesquière. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,

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2018 (_ & L. Van Alsenoy) “More ado about nothing: on the typology of negative indefinites”,

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2019 (Krasnoukhova, O. & _) “Negation in Kulina: a double polarity swap”, Journal of

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(Krasnoukhova, O. & _) “Standard negation in Awa Pit: From synchrony to diachrony”,

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2020 (_ & O. Krasnoukhova) “Negação padrão em chibcha”, LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas

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( & O. Krasnoukhova) “The typology of negation”, The Oxford handbook of negation.

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(_ & K. Sahoo) “Such similatives: a cross-linguistic reconnaissance”, Language

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“Phasal polarity – warnings from earlier research”, The expression of phasal polarity

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(_ & O. Krasnoukhova) “How to do words with ‘things’ – Multiple grammaticalization

from ‘thing’ in Tupi-Guarani”, Italian Journal of Linguistics

(Krasnoukhova, O., _ & M. Crevels) “Postverbal negation: typology, diachrony,

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“Nominal and pronominal negative concord, through the lens of Belizean and Jamaican

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“Quirky negative concord: Croatian, Spanish and French ni’s”, Jezikoslovlje

(_, M. Nomachi & O. Krasnoukhova) “Connective negation and negative concord in

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