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Fields of interest

Syntax: the left-periphery of the clause, word order, left dislocation, island effects, agreement (especially agreement marking on closed-class words). Dialectology: Dutch dialects.

Research

In my research project Left-peripheral word order in Dutch (dialects) I investigate the variation in word order in the left periphery in standard Dutch and its dialects, both empirically and theoretically. My supervisors are Johan Rooryck (LUCL) and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (HUB/CRISSP).

Curriculum Vitae

May 14th, 1985                            
Born in Aalst (Belgium) September

1997 - June 2003           
Secondary education: Latin-Sciences, Sint-Maarteninstituut Aalst

September 2003 – June 2005          
Bachelor Germanic linguistics & literature: Dutch-English, CatholicUniversity Brussels (magna cum laude)

September 2005 – June 2007          
Master Germanic linguistics & literature: Dutch-English, CatholicUniversity Leuven (magna cum laude) M.A. thesis Agreement marking on closed-class words in the dialect of Aalst, supervisor Frank Van Eynde

September 2007 – Present              
PhD Student Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)           

September 2007 - June 2008
Courses in the  Research master Linguistics at Leiden University and Utrecht University 

January 2008
LOT Winterschool, Tilburg University

June 2008
LOT Summerschool, Utrecht University

August 2008: Linguistic Institute in the Old World (OWLi), Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona

Publications

 Conference papers: 
- ‘An inflected preposition in Aalst Dutch’.
Paper presented at TIN-dag, University of Utrecht (February 2nd, 2008).

- ‘An inflected preposition in Aalst Dutch’.
Paper presented at BKL Taaldag/CBL Journée Linguistique, University College Brussels (April 26th, 2008).

- ‘Embedded left dislocation in southern Dutch’.
Paper presented at The 23rd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 23), University of Edinburgh (June 12th-13th, 2008).