This page provides a listing of BeNeCLA members, with an indication of their specific area of expertise. In order to become a member, please contact the secretary.
| Ameka, Felix K. | Leiden | language description and documentation, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, anthropological linguistics and African languages |
| Auwera, Johan van der | Antwerpen | modaliteit, negatie |
| Backus, Ad | Tilburg | sociolinguïstiek, tweetaligheid, taalverandering |
| Beliën, Maaike | Delft | lexical and constructional semantics, cognitive grammar, corpus linguistics, adpositions and auxiliary choice (Dutch ‘hebben’ and ‘zijn’) |
| Bentein, Klaas | Gent | Ancient Greek, Cognitive Grammar, diachronic linguistics |
| Boogaart, Ronny | Leiden | semantics and pragmatics, construction grammar (tense, aspect, mood, modality, conditional constructions) |
| Booij, Geert | Leiden | Construction Grammar, morphology |
| Brisard, Frank | Antwerpen | Cognitive Grammar, tense-aspect, epistemic modality, linguistic pragmatics |
| Brône, Geert | Antwerpen, Lessius | cognitieve semantiek, discourse analysis, psycholinguïstiek |
| Broersma, Mirjam | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | psycholinguistics, multilingualism, (improving) sound perception and production in a second language |
| Cienki, Alan | VU-Amsterdam | spoken language semantics, gesture and cognitive linguistics (esp. metaphor, metonymy, schemas, mental spaces), political discourse analysis, Germanic and Slavic linguistics |
| Claes, Jeroen | Antwerpen | Cognitive Construction Grammar, Variationist sociolinguistics, Caribbean Spanish |
| Colleman, Timothy | Gent | Construction Grammar, syntax and semantics, language variation |
| Cornillie, Bert | Leuven | Modality and Evidentiality in Discourse, Spoken and written Spanish, Grammaticalization and Subjectification |
| Coussé, Evie | Göteborg | language variation and change, usage-based construction grammar, grammaticalization, verb constructions, word order, Dutch |
| Crasborn, Onno | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | sign language linguistics, Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT), phonology, corpus construction |
| Crible, Ludivine | Université Catholique de Louvain | Discourse markers, cognitive pragmatics and semantics, first-language fluency, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics (French/English) |
| Daalder, Saskia | Amsterdam | relevantietheorie, pragmatische analyse als inbedding van de grammatica, constructiegrammatica, taalverandering, grammaticalisering, geschiedenis van de taalkunde |
| De Cock, Barbara | Université catholique de Louvain | persoonsverwijzing en onpersoonlijke constructies, interactie pragmatiek en syntaxis, discourse, Spaans/ person reference and impersonal constructions, interface pragmatics-syntax, discourse, Spanish |
| De Latte, Fien | Ghent University | Spanish linguistics |
| Degand, Liesbeth | Université catholique de Louvain | discourse markers, discourse structure, grammaticalization, corpus linguistics (Dutch/French), speech vs. writing |
| Delbecque, Nicole | Leuven | Spaanse taalkunde |
| Díaz Lammertyn, Pedro | Leuven | Construction grammar, semantic change, corpus linguistics, Spanish linguistics |
| Divjak, Dagmar | Sheffield | Slavic Languages; lexical semantics (synonymy); lexis-grammar interface; aspect & modality; corpus linguistics |
| Dogruoz, A. Seza | Tilburg | cognitive linguistics, Turkish, language contact, bilingualism, corpus linguistics |
| Elffers, Els | Amsterdam | foundations of semantics, modal particles, information structure, past participle |
| Engelenhoven, Aone van | Leiden | betekenis in grammatica en orale tradities (in insulair ZO Azië), semiotaxis en cognitieve poetica van het Indonesisch |
| Enghels, Renata | Gent | Spaanse taalkunde, syntaxis en semantiek, perceptiewerkwoorden, causatieve werkwoorden, complementtypes |
| Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline | Utrecht | 1. language acquisition, 2. discourse coherence, 3. readability in educational settings |
| Fagel, Suzanne | Leiden | stilistiek, moderne letterkunde |
| Feyaerts, Kurt | Leuven | creativiteit en humor; metafoor en metonymie; intersubjectiviteit in interactioneel discours; gesproken taal |
| Foolen, Ad | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | partikels, expressiviteit, constructies |
| Forceville, Charles | Amsterdam | pictorial and multimodal metaphor; multimodal discourse; narration; documentary film, animation, comics, advertising, Relevance Theory |
| Fortuin, Egbert | Leiden | Russian linguistics, semantics, syntax (imperatives, conditionals, aspect, degree words, ellipsis, philosophy of language) |
| Frank, Stefan | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | psycholinguistics, multilingualism, cognitive models, sentence and discourse comprehension |
| Franco, Karlien | KU Leuven | dialectologie en dialectometrie, lexicale semantiek, taalvariatie en -verandering en variationiële sociolinguïstiek |
| Gallez, Francoise | Namur | construction grammar, cognitive linguistics, German, Language acquisition , L3 |
| Geeraerts, Dirk | Leuven | lexical semantics, lexicology, language variation and change, corpus linguistics |
| Geerdink, Hetty | Leiden | Semiotactische analyse van het Moderne Japans (gepubliceerd bij Lincon.Europa); werkt nu aan een ’semiotactic approach’ voor andere altaische talen, zoals klassiek Mongools en Manchu. |
| Glynn, Dylan | Lund | Usage-Based Cognitive Semantics, Lexical Semantics, Constructional Semantics, Quantitative Methods |
| Gras, Pedro | Antwerpen | Construction Grammar, Interactional Linguistics, Discourse Markers, Insubordination, Modality, Evidentiality, Spanish Linguistics |
| Grosman, Iulia | Louvain-la-Neuve | production et perception de la prosodie chez les francophones natifs |
| Gross, Ulrike | Aachen | SLA phonetics |
| Gyselinck, Emmeline | Gent | Diachronic Construction Grammar, expressivity and intensification in language, productivity |
| Hanegreefs, Hilde | Leuven/ Antwerpen | verbal semantics, corpus linguistics, frame analysis, cognitive linguistics |
| Hatchard, Rachel | – | Constructivist/ usage-based approaches, Construction Grammar, aphasia, language acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics, psycholinguistics. (Languages: English, German.) |
| Heirbaut, Joni | Leuven | discoursanalyse, contrastieve taalkunde, corpus bijbelvertalingen |
| Hendrikx, Isa | Université catholique de Louvain | Construction Grammar, L2 acquisition, intensifying constructions, Dutch, French and English |
| Hermoso-Gómez, Bettina | University of Leeds | second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, contrastive linguistics, Spanish, the use of emerging technologies in language learning |
| Heyvaert, Liesbet | Leuven | nominalization, gerunds, participles and middle constructions |
| Hoetjes, Marieke | Tilburg | nonverbal communication, psycholinguistics, gesture |
| Holleman, Bregje | Utrecht | framing/profiling, lexicale contrasten |
| Honselaar, Wim | Amsterdam | lexical semantics, pragmatics, syntax and morphology of contemporary Russian and Dutch; bilingual lexicography |
| Irizarri van Suchtelen, Pablo | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | bilingualism, heritage languages, Spanish |
| Janssen, Theo | VU-Amsterdam | syntax, semantics, and pragmatics |
| Johansson, Christer | University of Bergen, Norway | Experimental Psycholinguistics + Computational Linguistics = Cognitive Science Cross-linguistic Priming, Computational Modeling of the Writing Process, Dyslexia, Bilingualism |
| Jonkers, Sara | Université Catholique de Louvain | modality, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, Dutch |
| Kaal, A.R (Bertie) | VU-Amsterdam | discourse analysis |
| Koier, Elizabeth | Leiden | historical linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, modality, modal adverbs, grammaticalization, subjectification, Ancient Greek linguistics, word order, information structure, particles, Indo-Europeanlinguistics. |
| Krennmayr, Tina | VU-Amsterdam | metaphor in (news) discourse, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, metaphor in foreign language teaching, second language learning |
| la Roi, Ezra | Ghent University | Ancient Greek tense, aspect, mood and modality, language variation and change |
| Leeuwen, Maarten van | Leiden | stylistics, cognitive rhetoric, discourse analysis |
| Lemish, Nataliya | Kyiv National Linguistic University | Comparative Linguistics, Cognitive Syntax of Germanic, Romance and Slavic Languages |
| Lemmens, Maarten | Lille | posture and location verbs, spatial expressions, lexical causatives |
| Liao, Yiyun | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam | psycholinguistics, grammatical aspect and motion event cognition |
| Luchjenbroers, June | Bangor, UK | |
| Malepaard, Joop | VU-Amsterdam | negatie, disjunctie; de zg. balansschikking in het hedendaagse Nederlands |
| Membrez, Greg | Concordia University, St Paul. USA | lexical semantics, frame semantics, pragmatics, cognitive grammar, hermeneutics, phenomenology, classical Greek and Latin, ancient philosophy |
| Michaud Maturana, Daniel | Leuven / Hogeschool Zuyd | Spaans, kwantificerende constituenten |
| Mortelmans, Tanja | Antwerpen | modality & modal verbs, evidentiality, tense and aspect |
| Mulder, Gijs | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | Spaans, pragmatiek, lexicografie, idioom, lexicale semantiek |
| Naudé, Alaric | Suwon Science College | semantics, multilingualism, neurolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition, dialectology in Korean and Sino-Tibetian languages |
| Nitti, Paolo | Università di Torino | Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition |
| Pater, Adriaan | Utrecht | application of Conceptual Metaphor, Blending Theory to the Hebrew bible |
| Pascual, Esther | Groningen | mental spaces and conceptual blending, legal argumentation, fictive interaction, i.e. the intersection of language, interaction, and cognition |
| Perrez, Julien | Liège | second language acquisition (Dutch by French-Speaking learners), spatial semantics and metaphor analysis in political discourse |
| Piot Christina | Liège | multimodal expressions of motion events, French, Dutch, language acquisition |
| Persoon, Ingrid | Utrecht |
causale connectieven, conversaties, subjectiviteit, constructiegrammatica, prosodie |
| Raviv, Limor | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen | Language Evolution, Iterated Learning, Social structure and its effect on linguistic structure, Statistical learning, Child development and Language acquisition |
| Redeker, Gisela | Groningen | discourse, textual structures, text processing |
| Reuneker, Alex | Leiden | construction grammar, conditionals, pragmatics |
| Rhee, Seongha | Hankuk (Seoul, Korea) | grammaticalization, typology |
| Roels, Linde | Ghent University | Spanish linguistics |
| Romero-Muñoz, Eloy | Namur | Applied Educational Linguistics, the values and flaws of a CL approach to ESL |
| Rombouts, Jos | Antwerpen | partikels, discourse markers, frasemen, dooddoeners, verwensingen, idiomatische uitdrukkingen in Nederlandse dialecten, lexicografie, volksvertellingen, oraal erfgoed |
| Rutten, Gijsbert | Leiden | diachrone constructiegrammatica, historische sociolinguïstiek, geschiedenis van de taalkunde |
| Sambre, Paul | Lessius Antwerpen/ Leuven | cognitive grammar, frame semantics, linguistic creativity, cognitive discourse models, the relation between cognitive linguistics and French phenomenology and poststructuralism, French and Italian |
| Sanders, José | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | mental space theorie, perspectief, narratieve tekst, citaatvormen |
| Sanders, Ted | Utrecht | discourse studies, discourse structure, coherence, connectives, discourse processing, acquisition, document design and readability |
| Sansiñena, María Sol | KU Leuven | Corpus linguistics; Interactional linguistics; Construction Grammar; Insubordination and Spanish Linguistics |
| Schoonjans, Steven | KU Leuven | schakering (i.h.b. modale partikels), constructiegrammatica, multimodaliteit (i.h.b. gestiek), Duits, Duitse Gebarentaal |
| Slobin, Dan I. | UC Berkeley | |
| Spronck, Stef | Australian National University | Reported speech and thought; evidentiality, modality, stance; social cognition and grammar; typology; Australian languages, Ungarinyin |
| Steen, Gerard | VU-Amsterdam | metaphor, metonymy, figurative language; discourse, genre, register, style, rhetoric |
| Steinkrauss, Rasmus | Groningen / Luxemburg | child language acquisition, Cognitive Grammar |
| Stukker, Ninke | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | stylistics, genre theory, discourse structure, causality |
| Sweep, Josefien | Amsterdam | metonymy in the direct object; logical metonymy; coding metonymies in dictionaries; semantics; lexicology |
| Thijs, Bartie | Particulier/VU Amsterdam | semantiek en syntaxis van mits-constructies in het 16e- en 17e- eeuws Nederlands |
| Thijs, Kees | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | Oud-Grieks, partikels, perspectiefwisselingen |
| Tribushinina, Elena | Utrecht | semantics of degree expressions, language acquisition, construction grammar |
| van Berkel-van Hoof, Lian | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen | Multimodality, language acquisition, augmentative signs, linguistics |
| Van Beveren, Amélie | Gent | Construction Grammar, Cognitive Sociolinguistics, Register, Explicitation, Grammatical alternations |
| Vandelanotte, Lieven | Namur/ Leuven | reported speech, the noun phrase, cognitive poetics, corpus research |
| Van de Poel, Bert | UCLouvain | corpus methodology, quantitative methods in linguistics, learner corpus research, second language acquisition |
| Van Goethem, Kristel | Louvain-la-Neuve | Construction Grammar, morphology-syntax interface, diachronic and comparative linguistics (Dutch-French) |
| Van Hecke, Pierre | Leuven | metafoor in het Klassieke Hebreeuws en Aramees |
| Van Hulle, Sven | Ghent University | Spanish linguistics |
| van Krieken, Kobie | Radboud University Nijmegen | discourse, linguistic perspective, narrative, mental spaces |
| van Trijp, Remi | Parijs | evolutionaire taalkunde, computerlinguïstiek |
| Veldhuis, Dorina | Tilburg | cognitive linguistics, literacy, bilingualism |
| Verhaert, Anne | Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen | Spaanse taalkunde |
| Verhagen, Arie | Leiden | intersubjectiviteit, constructiegrammatica, evolutie van taal |
| Verroens, Filip | Gent | French and contrastive linguistics |
| Verspoor, Marjolijn | Groningen | Second Language Development from a usage based perspective; cognitive linguistics in second language teaching and processing. |
| Verveckken, Katrien | Leuven | Spanish binominal syntagm (NP de NP-phrase), quantifiers, grammaticalization, subjectification, Construction Grammar, Lexical Semantics |
| Vliegen, Maurice | VU Amsterdam | verb meaning, infinitival constructions, reported speech, evidentiality |
| Vliet, Sarah van | VU Amsterdam | referential expressions, information structure, attention & language, construction grammar, narrative discourse, language production |
| Vogt, Paul | Tilburg | Child language acquisition, multimodal gesturing, language evolution, cognitive modelling |
| Welschen, Ad | Amsterdam | 1) metonymie, 2) coördinatie, subordinatie en structurele mengvormen daarvan |
| Wermuth, Cornelia | Lessius/ Leuven | (medische) vaktaal en terminologie, frame semantics, NLP |
| Yates, Harriet | Radboud University, Nijmegen | Philosophy of Language and Experimental Linguistics |
| Elisabeth Zima | Leuven | interactional discourse, meaning constitution, intersubjectivity, discourse dynamics, creativity |
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