prof. johan van der auwera

CURRICULUM VITAE

Johan van der Auwera Born in Lier, Belgium, April 12th 1953 Present function: Professor of English and General Linguistics, University of Antwerp, Belgium Address: University of Antwerp Center for Grammar, Cognition, and Typology

Department of Linguistics Prinsstraat 13 B-2000 Antwerpen

BELGIUM Tel: +32-(0)3-2654588 Fax: +32-(0)3-2654566 E-mail: [email protected] WWW : http://webh01.ua.ac.be/vdauwera/ 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

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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 - present: 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 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 - present: 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, 97-06; 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 Course “English from a typological point of view”, Complutense University of Madrid, English department

May 25-29, 209: Master Course “The typology of mood, modality and negation”, University

of Palermo, Linguistics department 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. Ku…anda) “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, Moscou, 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. Gst & _) “(Human) impersonal pronouns in German and English”, University of Aachen, Nov 17,

2010

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. Ku…anda) “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, Sam 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 quantifers”, 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, 10-14 sept 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 Juy 4 1998

“Layering and the grammar of modality”, 8th International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, July 7 1998

(_ & D.N.S. Bhat (Mysore, India)) “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 (_ & 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) "Mood and modality: cross-linguistic issues”, Conference “Languages in the

Mediterranean area: Typology and convergence”, Pisa, June 1 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, Rome 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 & Valentin 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 Comments Annual Meeting Linguistic Typology Research Consortium, Utrecht, Sept 28 2002 (_ & A. Ammann) “Modal polyfunctionality in Standard Average European”, Annual Meeting of the

Michigan Linguistic Society, Detroit, Sept 19 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 Geselsschaft 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, Sept 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 September 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 developmentof 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”, Scalarity in all its aspects,

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 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 Fenno-Ugric

Studies, Workshop on negation in Uralic languages, Piliscsaba, Aug 11 2010 * (_, D. Noël & A. Van linden) “Had better, ‘d beter, 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)subjectificatin, Brussels, Nov 11 2010

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

linguistics section : chair 1987-1989, 1995-1999 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 doctoral dissertations: University of Antwerp


Completed (6) 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 Current Daniël Van Olmen “Imperatives in English and Dutch” Frens Vossen “The Jespersen Cycles” Lauren Van Alsenoy “The typology of negative indefinites” Jozef Rombouts “Scalar particles in Dutch” Marie-Thérèse Zerbo “Une grammaire du winye”

Membership in doctoral juries University of Antwerp UA (1980-): 16 University of Amsterdam: 1997, 2000, 2006, 2008 Catholic University Nijmegen / Radboud University Nijmegen: 1997, 2005 Free University of Amsterdam: 1999 Université Libre de Bruxelles: 2002 University of Ghent: 2005, 2007, 2008 Catholic University of Leuven: 2006 University of Cambridge: 2006, 2009, 2009 University of Copenhagen: 2006 University of Paris: 2007 Charles University Prague & University of Paris: 2008

Membership in juries for habilitations

University of Vilnius: 2002 Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris : 2005 University of Regensburg: 2005

External expert for ad hoc research evaluation:

Dutch Science Foundation, (NWO), 1985, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2010 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 Recherche, 2006, 2009, 2010 Hogeschool Gent, 2006 Swiss National Science Foundation, 2006, 2010 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2009 Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010 Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie voor Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences), Research assessment committee Fryske Academy, The Netherlands, 2009 Institut Universitaire de France, 2010

External expert for the evaluation of scientific journals, National Science Council of Taiwan, 2006 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-) Member of the binational expert committee on Dutch Language, Culture and History (Flemish and Dutch Research Councils), 2000- 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- Member of the expert committee on “the Complexity of the Human Mind”, Starter Grants, European

Research Council, 2006- Referee or council member in employment, tenure and promotion affairs: Cambridge University,

Universität Regensburg, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, Université de Strasbourg Member of the advisory board, Festival of Languages, University of Bremen, 2009 Member of the scientific committee of the The Center for Postgraduate Education and Research on

Languages of Europe: Typology, History and Sociolinguistics (LETiSS), Pavia Organization of the following conferences and meetings:

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. Saviƒ) 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

“Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectificaton”, Brussels, November 2010 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 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, Sept 2010 Chronos 10, Birmingham, April 2011 Moscow Syntax and Semantics 2, April 2011 Grants, projects 1 Personal 1.1 Research Fund University of Antwerp 1.2 1.2.1 Post-doctoral fellowships


1.2.1.1 Oct 1986-June 1987: D. Du…anda (Yugoslavia) ‘Subject and object assignment in Serbo-Croatian’ (204.000 BEF)

1.2.1.2 May-Aug 1991: I. Boguslavsky (Russia) : ‘Adverbs and valency’ (310.000 BEF) 1.2.1.3 Jan-Sept 1993: I. Nedyalkov (Russia) : ‘Converbs in the languages of Europe’ (in

connection with EUROTYP project) (274.000 BEF) 1.2.1.4 1994-1996: J Nuyts: study of the linguistic and the conceptual structure of

epistemic modality’, (3.984.000 BEF) (040S.2096) 1.2.1.5 Jan-July 1997: V. Plungian (Russia): ‘Modaliteit in lexicon and grammatica’

(210.000 BEF) 1.2.1.6 July-Dec 1997: D.N.S. Bhat (India): ‘Modaliteit in de Indische talen’ (400.000

BEF) 1.2.1.7 Oct 1999- June 2000: N. Dobroshina (Russia): ‘The subjunctive in the world’s

languages’ (12.571 €) 1.2.1.8 Oct 1999 - June 2000: P. Umarani (India): ‘The expression of modality in the

Dravidian languages’ (12.571 €) 1.2.1.9 Ma 2001 – Nov 2001: A. Malchukov (Russia): ‘Towards a typology of

transcategorial operations’ (12.493 €) 1.2.1.10 Ma 2002 – Nov 2002: N. Gabas (Brazil): ‘On the typology of ideophones’ (15.815

€) 1.2.1.11 Feb 2003 – Oct 2003: N. Sumbatova (Russia): ‘Predication and information’

(13.410 €) 1.1.1.12 Nov 2003 - Nov 2004: Loualy Mahamane Abdoulaye (Niger): ‘On the origin and

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

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

1.1.1.14 Jan 2006 - June 2006: Alice Vittrant (France) “Modality in Burmese” (14.820 €) 1.1.2 Matching funds 1.1.2.1 to NFWO Grant, 1988-1990: ‘The structure of Antwerp Yiddish’ (100.000 BEF) 1.1.2.2 to ‘Small project European Science Foundation’: 1990: ‘already and still in the languages

of Europe’ (18.000 BEF) 1.1.1.3 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 1.2.1.1. 2002-2005: The mediterranean linguistic area, Andreas Ammann (300.000 €) 1.2.1.2. 2006-2010: The imperative in English and Dutch, Daniël Van Olmen (300.000 €)) 1.2.2. Postdoctoral fellowships 2006-2009 Proper names as a grammatical category: a typological investigation, Mark Van de Velde (208.178 €)


1.2.3. Projects 1.2.3.1 1988-1990: ‘The structure of Antwerp Yiddish’ (100.000 BEF) 1.2.3.2 1991-1993: ‘Adverbs of continuation and change in the languages of Europe’ (120.000

BEF) (8.0019.91) 1.2.3.3 1994-1996: ‘Typology of the modal auxiliary’ (150.000 BEF) (7-04-3-2145) 1.2.3.4 2009-2012: The Jespersen cycles (239.200 €) 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 1.4.1 1990-1994: Grant (50.000 FF) 1.4.2 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, Adeline 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 2.1.1 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 €)

2.1.2 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) 2.2.1 Jan 1998-Dec 2001: with L. Goossens & G. De Schutter: ‘Modality: Typology, cognition,

and grammar’ (214.774 €) (G.0087.98) 2.2.2 Onderzoeksgemeenschap Taal en Cognitie [Research consortium Language and

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

2.1.3 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-

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- 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-

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.

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.

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 p.

Adverbs and particles of change and continuation. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. [=EUROTYP Working Papers V.2] 173 p.

1992 (M. Kefer & _) Meaning and grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [=Empirical Approaches

to Language Typology 10] X + 427 p.


1994 (E. König & _) The Germanic Languages. London: Routledge. XIII + 610 p. 1996 (B. Devriendt, L. Goossens & _) Complex Structures - A Functionalist Perspective

[Functional Grammar Series 17], Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, XVII+386 p. 1998 (_ & D. P. Ó Baoill) Adverbial constructions in the languages of Europe [=Empirical

Approaches to Language Typology - EUROTYP 20-3], Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, XVIII + 852 p.

1998 (_ & F. Durieux & L. Lejeune) English as a human language. To honor Louis Goossens.

München: LINCOM EUROPA, V + 361 p.

2001 (_ & P. Dendale) Theme issue on ‘Modal verbs in the Germanic and Romance Languages’, Belgian Journal of Linguistics 14, VI + 264 p.

2001 (P. Dendale & _) Les verbes modaux. [=Cahiers Chronos 8] Amsterdam: Rodopi, IV+173 p. 2002 Paperback edition of The Germanic Languages

2003 (K. Aijmer & _) Kalbotyra - Germanų ir romanų studijos [‘Linguistics - Germanic and

Romance Studies’] 53: 3, 143 p. 2005 (N. Delbecque & _ & D. Geeraerts) Perspectives on variation: sociolinguistic, historical,

comparative. Berlin: Mouton. 345 p. 2009 (R. Salkie, P.Busuttil & _) Modality in English. Theory and Description. Berlin: Mouton, vi +

384 p. in print (B. Kortmann & _) The field of linguistics: Europe. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. invited (J. Nuyts & _) The Handbook of Mood and Modality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. invited (T. Stolz, _, H. Otsuka & A. Urdze) Irregularity in Morphology (and Beyond)

Papers 1977 “An inquiry concerning human misunderstanding”, In/out 1.15-18.

“Irrefutable meaning”, Preprints of the 1977 Stanford student conference in philosophy. 8 p.

Notes on ‘ordinary’ and ‘ideal language. Antwerpen: Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA). [=Antwerp papers in linguistics 12] 42 p.

1978 “Language and science”, Tijdschrift voor Levende Talen 44.418-422.


“Bestaan verstaan” [Understanding existence], De Nieuwe Taalgids 71.351-361.

“Reference and pragmatics”, Functional studies in language and literature. ed. by F. Coppieters & D. L. Goyvaerts. 155-165. Gent: Story-Scientia.

“‘Dus’” [‘Hence’], Linguistics in Belgium 2. ed. by S. Devriendt & C. Peeters. 11-124. Brussel: Didier.

1979 “Logic ‘hooked’ on natural language”, Linguistische Berichte 21.21-31.

“‘Hence’”, Report on text linguistics. Semantics and cohesion. ed. by J.O. Östman. 59-76. Åbo: Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation.

“Pragmatic presupposition: shared beliefs in a theory of irrefutable meaning”, Syntax and semantics 11: Presupposition. ed. by D. A. Dinneen & C.-k. Oh. 249-264. New York, San Francisco, London: Academic Press.

“Universals of semantic and pragmatic focus - Prolegomena”, Papers from the fifth Scandinavian conference of linguistics. Part I: Section papers. ed. by T. Pettersson. 353-365. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell. [=Acta Universitatis Lundensis. Sectio I. Theologica - Juridica - Humaniora 30]

“On the truth-values of empirical sentential logic”, Papers from the fifth Scandinavian conference of linguistics. Part II: General sessions. ed. by T. Pettersson. 167-178. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell. [=Acta Universitatis Lundensis. Sectio I. Theologica - Juridica - Humaniora 31]

“Conditions for empirical logics”, Linguistics in Belgium 3. ed. by S. De Vriendt, M. Dominicy & C. Peeters. 107-119. Brussel: Didier-Hattier.

“Direct speech acts”, Bedeutung, Sprechakte und Texte. Akten des 13. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Gent 1978. Bd. 2. ed. by W. Vandeweghe & M. Van de Velde. 295-303. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.

1980 “‘Hence’”, York Papers in Linguistics 8.7-21.

“On the meanings of basic speech acts”, Journal of Pragmatics 4.253-303. 1981 “INUS conditions”, Logique et Analyse 24.259-266.

“Zweistellige Modalität” [Dyadic modality], Sprache und Pragmatik. II. ed. by I. Rosengren. 81-89. Lund: Gleerup.

“Tagalog ‘ang’ - an exercise in universal grammar”, Linguistics in the Netherlands 1981. ed. by S. Daalder & M. Gerritsen. 127-139. Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: North Holland.

“Pragmatiek” [Pragmatics], Twintig facetten van de taalwetenschap. ed. by W. de Geest, R. Dirven, & Y. Putseys. 127-139. Leuven: Acco. [=Kennismaking met de linguistiek 5]


1982 “Minimal ontology and the theory of meaning”, Language and ontology. Proceedings of the sixth international Wittgenstein symposium 1981. ed. by W. Leinfellner, E. Kraemer, & J. Schank. 303-305. Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky.

(_ & J. Rombouts (Antwerp)) “Sperber and Wilson on irony”, Grazer Linguistische Studien 17/18.17-30.

“Extraposition and permutation in Portuguese”, Lingvisticae Investigationes 6.403-404.

“Against ‘Against conversational implicature’”, Journal of Semantics 1.399-400

1983 “Comrie on subjects”, Linguistics in the Netherlands 1983. ed. by H. Bennis & W.U.S. van

Lessen Kloeke. 191-199. Dordrecht & Cinnaminson, N.J.: Foris. [=Publications in Language Sciences 12]

“Is the logic of natural language two-valued, three-valued or many-valued?” Papers from the seventh Scandinavian conference of linguistics. II. ed. by F. Karlsson. 710-720. Helsinki: University.

“New evidence for raising?” Neophilologische Mitteilungen 84.396-397.

“Tasks for conditionalists?” Journal of Pragmatics 7.243-245.

“Conditionals and antecedent possibilities”, Journal of Pragmatics 7.297-309.

“On the relativization of embedded subjects”, Studies in Language 7.277-281.

“On the delay of the nominative who relativizer”, Een spyeghel voor G. Jo Steenbergen. Huldealbum aangeboden bij zijn emeritaat. ed. by F. Daems & L. Goossens. 21-28. Leuven & Amersfoort: Acco.

“‘Misschien?’” [‘Perhaps?’], Leuvense Bijdragen 72.385-414.

1984 (_ & W. Vandeweghe) “Inleiding” [Introduction], Studies over Nederlandse partikels. ed. by _

& W. Vandeweghe. 7-15. Antwerpen: Universiteit (UIA). [=Antwerp papers in linguistics 35]

“Maar en alleen als graadpartikels” [Maar and alleen as degree particles], Studies over Nederlandse partikels. ed by. _ & W. Vandeweghe. 103-118. Antwerpen: Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA). [=Antwerp papers in linguistics 35]

“Subject vs. non-subject asymmetries in the relativization of embedded NP’s”, Sentential complementation. Proceedings of the international conference held at UFSAL, Brussels, June, 1983. ed. by W. de Geest & Y. Putseys. 257-269. Dordrecht & Cinnaminson, N.J.: Foris.

“From temporal adverb to modal particle - Some comparative remarks on Polish ‘czasem’”, Papers and studies in contrastive linguistics. 18.91-99.

“More on the history of subject contact clauses in English”, Folia Linguistica Historica 5.171-184.


“That COMP-fusions”, Proceedings of the tenth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. ed. by C. Brugman & M. Macaulay. 660-673. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. “Lauerbach on the ambiguity of conditionals”, Studia Filologiczne, Filologia Angielska 17.85-91

1985 “‘Or’ - a reconnaisance”, Linguistics in Belgium 6. ed. by K. van den Eynde & S. P. Verluyten.

143-157. Antwerpen: Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA). [=Antwerp papers in Linguistics, special issue]

“Background knowledge in logic: pseudo-monadic operators and presupposition”, Foregrounding background. ed. by J. Allwood & E. Hjelmquist. 99-106. Lund: Doxa.

“The predicative relatives of French perception verbs”, Predicates and terms in Functional Grammar. ed. by A.M. Bolkestein, C. de Groot, & J.L. Mackenzie. 219-234. Dordrecht & Cinnaminson, N.J.: Foris.

“More predicative relatives in French: the l’homme que je dis qui ressemble a un chat construction”, Antwerp studies in Functional Grammar. ed. by J. Nuyts. 13-48. Antwerpen: Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA). [=Antwerp papers in linguistics 39]

“‘Only if’”, Logique et Analyse 109.61-74.

“Relative that - a centennial dispute”, Journal of Linguistics 21.149-179.

(_ & D. Ku…anda) “Serbo-Croatian što - pronoun or conjunction?”, Linguistics 23.917-962.

1986 “The possibilities of may and can”, Linguistics across Historical and Geographical

Boundaries. II. Descriptive, Contrastive and Applied Linguistics. ed. by D. Kastovsky & A. Swzedek. 1067-1076. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: De Gruyter.

“Conditionals and speech acts”, On conditionals. ed. by E. C. Traugott, A. ter Meulen, J. S. Reilly & C. A. Ferguson. 197-214. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1987 (D. Ku…anda & _) “Biljeska o što i that” [A note on što and that], Strani jezici (Zagreb) 16.2-

11.

“Are actives and passives truth-conditionally equivalent?”, Proceedings of the ‘87 Debrecen symposium on logic and language. ed. by I. Ruzsa & A. Szabolcsi. 9-18. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

“Complementizers as P2 Fillers”, Putting One’s Words into Line. On Word Order and Functional Grammar. ed. by J. Nuyts & G. De Schutter. 61-72. Dordrecht & Providence RI: Foris.

(_ & L. Goossens), “Preface”, Ins and Outs of the Predication. ed. by _ & L. Goossens. V-X. Dordrecht & Providence RI: Foris.


(_ & H. Haberland), “Doubling and resumption in modern Greek”, Studies in Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. 27-29 April 1987. A Festschrift for John Chadwick. 323-334. Thessaloniki: Ekdotikos Oikos Agoon Kyriakidei.

“L’actif et le passif sont-ils vériconditionnellement équivalents?” [Are actives and passives truth-conditionally equivalent?], L’ambiguïté et la paraphrase. Opérations linguistiques, processus cognitifs, traitements automatisés. Actes du colloque de Caen, 9-11 avril 1987. ed. by C. Fuchs. 217-222. Caen: Université de Caen - CNRS UA 1234.

1988 On the position of Dutch complementizers. Amsterdam: Universiteit. [=Working Papers in

Functional Grammar 28] 35 p.

(E. König & _) “Clause integration in German and Dutch conditional, concessive conditional, and concessive clauses”, Clause Linking in Grammar and Discourse. ed. by J. Haiman & S. Thompson. 101-133. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

1989 “Linguistic Pragmatics and its Relevance to the Writing of Grammars”, Reference Grammars

and Modern Linguistic Theory. ed. G. Leitner & G. Graustein. 21-32. Tübingen: Niemeyer. [=Linguistische Arbeiten 226]

(_ & J. Daniëls) “Pauzes en komma’s bij de Nederlandse relatiefzin” [Pauses and commas in front of Dutch relative clauses”, Interface 3.93-106.

(M. Kefer & _) ‘Introduction’, Theme issue on ‘Universals of Language’, Belgian Journal of Linguistics 4.7-8.

1990 “Getting ahead with predicational terms, noun predication terms, and dominant participles”,

Working with Functional Grammar: Descriptive and Computational Applications. ed. by M. Hannay & E. Vester. 115-132. Dordrecht: Foris.

(_ & H. Haberland) “Topics and clitics in Greek relatives”, Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 22.127-157.

“The position of Dutch complementizers”, Issues in Germanic Syntax. ed. by W. Abraham, W. Kosmeijer & E. Reuland. 13-32. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [=Trends in Linguistics 44]

(E. König & _) “Adverbial participles, gerunds, and absolute constructions in the languages of Europe”, Toward a Typology of European Languages. ed. by J. Bechert, G. Bernini & C. Buridant. 337-355. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [=Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 8]

1991 “Relativized Constituents are Topics”, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress

of Linguists I. ed. by W. Bahner, J. Schildt & D. Viehweger. 873-875. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

“Beyond duality”, Adverbs and particles of change and continuation. ed. by _. 131-159. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. [=EUROTYP Working Papers V.2].


“Yiddish shoyn and related issues”, Adverbs and particles of change and continuation. ed. by _. 161-171. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. [=EUROTYP Working Papers V.2].

(_ & M. Kefer & C. Vetters) “On French adverbial conjunctions”, Adverbial subordinators in the languages of Europe. ed. by B. Kortmann. 69-83. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. [=EUROTYP Working Papers V.3]

“Untimely remarks on Yiddish adverbial conjunctions”, Adverbial subordinators in the languages of Europe. ed. by B. Kortmann. 85-93. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. [=EUROTYP Working Papers V.3]

1992 (M. Kefer & _) “Introduction”, Meaning and grammar. Cross-linguistic perspectives. ed. by M.

Kefer & _. V-VI. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [=Empirical approaches to language typology 10]

“Free relatives”, Layered structure and reference in a functional perspective. Papers from the Functional Grammar conference in Copenhagen 1990. ed. by M. Fortescue, P. Harder & L. Kristoffersen. 329-354. Amsterdam: Benjamins. [=Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 23]

“Dutch ‘once’ and related issues”, Adverbial quantification and other adverbialia. ed. by J.C. Moreno Cabrera. 49-55. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation. [=EUROTYP Working Papers V.4]

1993 “Les relatives prédicatives du français” [‘The predicative relatives of French’], Subordinations.

ed. by C. Muller & D. Roulland. Rennes: Presses Universitaires, 265-277. [=Travaux linguistiques du CERLICO 6]

“‘already’ and ‘still’: beyond duality”, Linguistics and philosophy 16.613-653.

“al en nog in de talen van Europa” [‘already and still in the languages of Europe’], Handelingen, Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij XLVII.119-140.

1994 (E. König & _) “Preface”, The Germanic Languages. ed. by E. König & _. London: Routledge,

IX-XIII.

(C. Henriksen & _) “The Germanic Languages”, ed. by E. König & _. The Germanic Languages. London: Routledge, 1-18.

(N. Jacobs, E. Prince & _) “Yiddish”, The Germanic Languages. ed. by E. König & _. London: Routledge, 388-420.

“Adverbs and adverbials”, Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Vol I. ed. by R.E. Asher. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 39-43.

“On the typology of negative position in phasal quantifiers”, Linguistica Antverpiensia

XXVIII.113-133.


1995 “On double definiteness in Dutch, Lebanese Arabic, Swedish, and Danish”, Overdetermination. ed. by F. Plank. [=Eurotyp Working Papers VII.24], Strasbourg: European Science Foundation, 113-119.

“Les préverbes du néerlandais - une comparaison avec l’allemand”, Les Préverbes dans les langues d’Europe. Introduction à l’étude de la préverbation. ed. by A. Rousseau. Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 77-94.

1996 (B. Devriendt, L. Goossens & _) “Introduction”, Complex Structures - A Functionalist

Perspective. Ed. by B. Devriendt, L. Goossens & _. [Functional Grammar Series 17], Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, IX-XVII.

“Modality: the three-layered scalar square”, Journal of Semantics 13.181-195.

1997 “Pragmatics in the last quarter century: the case of conditional perfection”, Journal of

Pragmatics 27.261-274.

“Conditional perfection”, On conditionals again. ed. by A. Athanasiadou & R. Dirven [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 143], Amsterdam: Benjamins, 169-190.

Cosubordination. Amsterdam: Universiteit. [=Working Papers in Functional Grammar 63] 23 p.

1998 (_ & V. Plungian) “Modality’s semantic map”, Linguistic Typology 2: 79-124.

“Defining converbs”, Typology of verbal categories: Papers presented to Vladimir Nedjalkov on the occasion of his 70th birthday. ed. by L. Kulikov & H. Vater. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 273-282.

“Preface”, XIII-XIV, “Introduction”, 1-23, “Phasal adverbials in the languages of Europe”, 25-

145, “Conclusion”, 813-836, Adverbial constructions in the languages of Europe. ed. by _ & D. P. Ó Baoill) [=Empirical Approaches to Language Typology - EUROTYP 20-3], Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

“Revisiting the Balkan and Meso-American linguistic areas”, Language Sciences 20: 259-270.

“Sobre la lexicalización de los modales vs. cuantificadores y conjunciones”, Estudios de tipología lingüistica.ed. by J. de Dios Luque Durán & A. Pamies Bertrán. Granada: Método Ediciones,179-193.

“On combining negation and modality”, Proceedings XVIième congrès international des linguistes. ed. by B. Caron. Oxford: Pergamon, Paper No. 0071.

“Verbal prefixes in Dutch and German”, Germanistische Linguistik 141-142: 102-127.

1999 “Dutch verbal prefixes. Meaning and form, grammaticalization and lexicalization”,

Boundaries of morphology and syntax. ed. by L. Mereu. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 121-135.


“Periphrastic ‘do’: typological prolegomena”, Thinking English Grammar. To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus. ed. by G.A.J. Tops, B. Devriendt & S. Geukens Leuven: Peeters, 457-470.

“On the semantic and pragmatic polyfunctionality of modal verbs”, The semantics/pragmatics interface from different points of view. ed. by K. Turner. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 50-64.

“Adverbs and adverbials”, Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories. ed. by. K. Brown & J. Miller. Oxford: Elsevier, 8-12.

(_ & D.N.S. Bhat) “Modality and negation in Havyaka Kannada”, Indian Linguistics 60: 1-

26.

2000 (_ & B. Bultinck) “Over de infinitief, de lange en de korte”[“On the infinitive, the long one and the short one”], Met taal om de tuin geleid. Een bundel opstellen voor Georges De Schutter ter gelegenheid van zijn pre-emeritaat. ed. by S.Gillis, J. Nuyts & J. Taeldeman. Antwerpen: Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, 379-385.

2001 “Negating dynamic and deontic modality in Hindi-Urdu and Bangla”, Linguistic structure and

language dynamics in South Asia. Papers from the proceedings of SALA XVIIII Roundtable. ed. by A. Abbi, R.S. Gupta & A. Kidwail. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 327-347.

“On the typology of negative modals”, Perspectives on negation and polarity items. ed. by J. Hoeksema, H. Rullmann, V. Sánchez-Valencia & T. van der Wouden. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 23-48.

(_ & B. Bultinck) “On the lexical typology of modals, quantifiers, and connectives”,

Perspectives on semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. ed. by I. Kenesei & R. M. Harnish. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 173-186.

“Modality - domains, layers, and parts of speech”, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

42:37-247.

“Negation, Linguistics of”, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. ed. by N.J. Smelser & & P. B. Baltes. Oxford: Pergamon, 10462-10467.

2002 (A. Ammann & _) “Korean modality: Asymmetries between Possibility and Necessity”,

Selected Papers from the Twelfth International Conference on Korean Linguistics. ed. by H.-D. Ahn & N. Kim. Seoul: Kyungjin Publishing, 43-56.

(_ & A. Ammann) “Volitional convergence around the Mediterranean?”, Mediterranean

languages. Papers from the MEDTYP workshop, Tirrennia, June 2002. ed. by P. Ramat & T. Stolz. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, 1-12.

“More thoughts on degrammaticalization”, New Reflections on Grammaticalization. ed. by I.

Wischer & G. Diewald. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 19-29.


(_ & I. Genee) “English ‘do’: on the convergence of languages and linguists”, English Language and linguistics 6, 283-307.

2003 “La grammaire de la modalité”, Développements récents en grammaire fonctionnelle. ed. by

M. Jadir. Mohammedia: Université Hassan II, 109-120.

( _ & A. Neuckermans) “On no one’s typology”, Leuvense Bijdragen 92.223-228. 2004 (A. Ammann & _) “Complementizer-headed main clauses for volitional moods in the

languages of South-Eastern Europe: A Balkanism?”, Balkan Syntax and Semantics. ed. by O. Tomić. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 293-314.

(G. De Vogelaer, A. Neuckermans, V. Van den Heede, M. Devos & _ ) “De indeling van de Nederlandse dialecten: een syntactisch perspectief”, Taeldeman, man van de taal, schatbewaarder van de taal. ed. by J. de Caluwe, G. De Schutter, M. Devos & J. Van Keymeulen. Gent: Vakgroep Nederlandse Taalkunde Universiteit Gent & Academia Press, 357-373. (Gabas Junior, N. & _) “Ideophones in Karo”, Language, Culture and Mind. ed. by M. Achard & S. Kemmer. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 397-413.

(D. Idiatov & _) “On interrogative pro-verbs”, Proceedings of the Workshop on the Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions. 16th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI). ed. by I. Comorovski & M. Krifka (eds.), Nancy: ESSLLI, 17-23. (D. Idiatov & _) “Nominalization as a question strategy in Tucanoan”, Proceedings from the seventh Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. April 30-May 2, 2004. ed. by L. Harper & C. Jany. Santa Barbara CA: Department of Linguistics, University of California, 9-24. [Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, VOL. 15]

(_ & N. Dobrushina & V. Goussev) “A Semantic Map for Imperative-Hortatives”,

Contrastive Analysis in Language. Identifying Linguistic Units of Comparison. ed. by D. Willems, B. Defrancq, T. Colleman & D. Noël. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 44-66. (_ & N. Dobrushina & V. Goussev) “Semanticheskaja karta imperativa-gortativa” [A semantic map of imperative-hortatives], Tipologicheskie obosnovanija v grammatike. K 70-letiju prof. V. S. Xrakovskogo [Typological foundations of grammar. To the 70th birthday of prof. V. S. Xrakovskij ] ed. by A. P. Volodin Moscow: Znak, 36-60. (_ & C. Montoliu) “On Judeo-Spanish Conditionals”, Balkan Syntax and Semantics. ed. by O. Tomić. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 461-474.

(_ & A. Neuckermans) “Jespersen’s Cycle and the Interaction of Predicate and Quantifier Negation in Flemish”, Dialectology meets typology. Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. ed. by B. Kortmann. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 454-478.


(_ & A. Neuckermans) “Een Oost-Vlaamse Driedubbele Negatie”, Dialectsyntaxis in bloei. ed. by S. Barbiers, M. Devos & G. De Schutter. Gent: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal-en Letterkunde [Themanummer Taal en Tongval 15-16], 143-157. (_ & E. Schalley “Ot optativa i kon’junktiva k irrealisu” [From optative and subjunctive to irrealis], In Y. Lander, V. Plungian & A. Y. Urmanchieva (eds.). Issledovanija po teorii grammatiki. 3: Irrealis i irreal'nost'. [Studies in the theory of grammar. 3. Irrealis and irreality] Moscow: Gnosis, 75-87. (_ & E. Schalley) “From Optative and Subjunctive to Irrealis”, Speech, Community, and Seduction. ed. by F. Brisard. M. Meeuwis & B. Vandenabeele. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 87-96. (_ & M. Taeymans) “Let's, in English and in Dutch”, An International Master of Syntax and Semantics. Papers Presented to Aimo Seppänen on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday. ed. by G. Bergh, J. Herriman & M. Mobärg. Göteborg: Universitet, 239-247. [Gothenburg Studies in English 88. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis] (_ & M. Taeymans) “On the origin of the modal verb need”, Words in their places. A Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie. ed. by H. Aertsen, M. Hannay & R. Lyall. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit, 323-331.

2005 (N. Dobrushina, _, & V. Goussev ) “The Optative”, World Atlas of Language Structures. ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 298-301.

(_ & A. Ammann) “Epistemic possibility”, “Situational possibility”, “Overlap between epistemic and situational possibility”, World Atlas of Language Structures. ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 302-305, 306-309, 310-313. (_, N. Dobrushina & V. Goussev) “Imperative-Hortative systems”, World Atlas of Language Structures. ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil & B. Comrie (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 294-297. (_ , 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 (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 286-289, 290-293. (_ & 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. (_, E. Schalley & J. Nuyts) “Epistemic possibility in a Slavonic parallel corpus - a pilot study”, B. Hansen & P. Karlík (eds.) Modality in Slavonic Languages, New Perspectives. München: Sagner, 201-217.


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

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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

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(_ & J. Nuyts) “Cognitive linguistics and typology”, Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. ed. by D. Geeraerts & H. Cuyckens. Oxford: Blackwell, 1074-1091.

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: Benjamins, 201-214.

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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. Helmbrecht, Y. Nishina, Y-M. Shin, S. Skopeteas & E. Verhoeven. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 93-106.

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2010 “Prohibition: constructions and markers”, Contrasting meaning in languages of the East and

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