Members

Jean-Pierre Colson
Professor

■ Research interests: phraseology and corpus; contrastive phraseology; translation studies; computer linguistics

Barbara De Cock
Professor

■ Research interests: Spanish linguistics; political discourse; medical discourse; deixis and depersonalisation; Spanish as a foreign language (ELE)

Sylvie De Cock
Professor

■ Research interests: spoken (and written) learner corpora; phraseology; English for Specific Purposes (business English); contrastive linguistics

Élisabeth Degand
Full Professor

■ Research interests: spoken and written discourse analysis; discourse markers; spoken discourse segmentation; semantics; corpus linguistics (corpus annotation, discourse annotation); contrastive linguistics (NL/FR/EN/DE); discourse/grammar interface

Pauline Degrave
Professor

■ Research interests: influence de la pratique de la musique et de l'aptitude musicale sur les compétences en langue néerlandaise des apprenants francophones ; musique comme outil d'apprentissage d'une langue seconde

Cédrick Fairon
Full Professor

■ Research interests: natural language processing; electronic dictionaries; language resources; text mining; computer aided language learning

Michel Francard
Full Professor Emeritus

■ Research interests: French linguistics; sociolinguistics; lexicography; varieties of French; regional languages

Thomas François
Professor

■ Research interests: natural language processing; analysis of professional languages; machine learning; readability; automatic text simplification; computer-assisted language learning

Françoise Gallez
Professor

■ Research interests: German and contrastive linguistics; Construction Grammar; typology; translation ; teaching/learning German as a second language and translation (German-French)

Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Full Professor

■ Research interests: learner corpus research; varieties of English (World Englishes); cognitive linguistics; applied Construction Grammar; writing process

Sylviane Granger
Full Professor Emerita

■ Research interests: second language acquisition; learner corpus research; corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies; lexis and phraseology; lexicography; academic language

Philippe Hambye
Professor

■ Research interests: sociolinguistics; political and media discourse analysis; language policy; French-speaking countries; language skills in education and work

Philippe Hiligsmann
Full Professor

■ Research interests: Dutch as a foreign language; Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and immersion; contrastive linguistics, especially Dutch-French; Dutch phonetics and phonology; Dutch morphology and syntax; didactics of Dutch as a foreign language

Marie-Aude Lefer
Professor

■ Research interests: corpus-based translation studies; learner translation corpora; English-French contrastive linguistics; bilingual lexicography

Fanny Meunier
Full Professor

■ Research interests: (instructed) second language acquisition; learner corpus research; bi- and multi-literacies; digital literacy; English language teaching; pre- and in-service teacher training

Magali Paquot
FNRS Researcher / Professor 

■ Research interests: analysis and applications of learner corpora; second language acquisition; crosslinguistic influence; phraseology; complexity; contrastive linguistics; English for Academic Purposes; electronic lexicography

Joachim Sabel
Full Professor

■ Research interests: morphology and syntax of Germanic languages (esp. English, Dutch, German); comparative studies of German and Japanese syntax, of Austronesian languages (esp. Malagasy, Tagalog, Tsou, Palauan), of Bantu languages (esp. Zulu, Kikuyu, Duala); language typology (language families, language universals, evolution of language[s]); theoretical syntax and morphology; pragmatics (Speech Act Theory, Theory of Conversational Implicatures); pragmatic-syntax interface; syntax-semantics interfac

Anne-Catherine Simon
Full Professor

■ Research interests: French linguistics; discourse analysis; prosody-syntax interface; spoken French syntax; regional and stylistic variation

Ferran Suñer Muñoz
Professor

■ Research interests: foreign language teaching and learning; applied cognitive grammar; metaphor comprehension; German and contrastive linguistics

Kristel Van Goethem
FNRS Researcher / Professor

■ Research interests: Dutch and comparative linguistics; corpus linguistics/learner corpus research; Construction Grammar; morphology-syntax interface; evaluative morphology

Patrick Watrin
Research logistician