Tenured academic staff members

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Research logistician
Emeritus professors

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

Full Professor Emerita
■ Research interests: second language acquisition; learner corpus research; corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies; lexis and phraseology; lexicography; academic language
Scientific staff members (teaching assistants, doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows) and administrative and technical staff members involved in research projects

PhD Student
■ Research interests: (corpus-based and cognitive) translation studies; contrastive linguistics; directionality; expertise

PhD Student

PhD Student
■ Research interests: attenuation; intensification; controversy; online interactions; oral interactions

Research assistant / Visiting Assistant Professor

Teaching assistant

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research assistant / Visiting Assistant Professor
■ Research interests: CLIL; second language acquisition; learner corpora; phraseology

PhD Student
■ Research interests: multilingualism; pluriliteracy; academic writing; sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics

Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant

PhD Student
■ Research interests: slam poetry; rhythm; prosody; interactions between writing and orality; metric; flow

PhD Student

PhD Student
■ Research interests: natural language processing; medical language; information extraction; terminology; social networks; online communities; expertise

PhD Student

PhD Student

■ Research interests: digital literacy; school; learning

PhD Student
■ Research interests: contrastive linguistics; corpus analysis ; spoken discourse ; semantics-pragmatics interface


Programmer

Research Assistant


PhD Student

Research Assistant
■ Research interests: teaching / didactics of German; virtual reality in modern language teaching

Research Assistant
■ Research interests: CMC content; discourse analysis; hate and conflict speech modelling; noisy corpora processing

PhD Student

PhD Student

Visiting Assistant Professor
■ Research interests: cognitive linguistics; contrastive linguistics German-Dutch

PhD Student

PhD Student

Research Assistant


PhD Student
■ Research interests: acquisition of syntax in L2 German; teaching syntax; teaching with concept-based animations; syntax-discourse interface; word order and information structure

Postdoctoral researcher
■ Research interests: learner writing processes; corpus linguistics for the analysis and evaluation of teaching materials; data-driven learning; development of corpus-informed teaching materials; data literacy; corpus-linguistic methods and replicability

Teaching Assistant

PhD Student

PhD Student

PhD Student
PhD Student

PhD Student
■ Research interests: natural language processing; linguistics; language disorders detection; longitudinal analysis of electronic messages


PhD Student

Teaching Assistant
■ Research interests: contrastive linguistics German-French; German syntax; psycholinguistics; agrammatism

PhD Student
■ Research interests: plain language; (automatic) text simplification; specialized discourse; natural language processing

Research assistant / Visiting Assistant Professor

PhD Student
■ Research interests: alternative and augmentative communication; machine translation; automatic text simplification; natural language processing

PhD Student

PhD Student

Teaching Assistant


PhD Student
■ Research interests: French linguistics; writing skills; academic writing; psycholinguistics

Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant
■ Research interests: French as a foreign language; linguistics; natural language processing

PhD Student
■ Research interests: corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies; process-oriented translation research; cognitive linguistics; French translation of English noun concatenations; metaphor and intensification

PhD Student

Teaching Assistant
■ Research interests: sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; language, gender & education; inequalities

PhD Student

PhD Student

Teaching Assistant

PhD Student
■ Research interests: second language acquisition; multilingualism; computational linguistics; contact linguistics; complexity; phraseology

PhD Student
■ Research interests: contrastive linguistics; discourse analysis; political and media discourse; social media discourse

PhD Student

PhD Student

PhD Student

Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant
■ Research interests: mobile-assisted language learning; digital literacies for the teaching and learning of languages; teacher training

PhD Student

Research Assistant

Research Assistant

PhD Student

PhD Student
Other affiliated members

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: role of voice in the construction of gender identities; role of voice in seduction; influence of ideologies in the construction of scientific knowledges

Visiting Assistant Professor

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: apprentissage des langues assisté par ordinateur ; apprentissage des langues étrangères ; agents conversationnels et systèmes de dialogue ; didactique du français langue étrangère

Scientific Collaborator

Scientific Collaborator

Maître de langues / Visiting Assistant Professor

Maître de langues / Visiting Assistant Professor

Chef de travaux
■ Research interests: contrastive linguistics Russian-French; writing fluency; teaching interpreting

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: learner corpora; Construction Grammar; intensifying constructions

Professor
■ Research interests: teaching specialized translation and interpreting; lexical aquisition, readability of translated materials

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: morphology; Construction Grammar; contrastive linguistics

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: new Englishes; verb complementation; SLA; Construction Grammar; Valency Grammar; Corpus Pattern Analysis

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: analysis and applications of learner corpora; English for Academic Purposes; stance marking; lexicogrammar; syntax

Scientific Collaborator

Scientific collaborator
■ Research interests: Spanish as a second language; request; pragmatics; second language acquisition

Chef de travaux
■ Research interests: teaching specialized translation; corpora as a CAT tool; corpus-based terminology extraction

Scientific Collaborator

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: cognitive linguistics and human rights; quantification in financial news; Spanish

Scientific Collaborator

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: native-English and non-native teacher talk; implications from second-language acquisition research for the English classroom; teacher development and phonology

Visiting Researcher
■ Research interests: corpus linguistics; contrastive linguistics (French/African); phonology; contact prosody and sociolinguistics

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: discourse analysis; transcodic discourse markers; Congolese sociolinguistics

Scientific collaborator
■ Research interests: passive structures; contrastive linguistics; Spanish; French; English; registers

■ Research interests: Spanish linguistics; linguistic taboo; cognitive sociolinguistics; semantic variation

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: Spanish linguistics; pragmatics; indefinite pronouns; intersubjectivity; discursive genres

Visiting Assistant Professor
■ Research interests: English for Academic Purposes (EAP); analysis and applications of academic corpora; cross-disciplinary variation; phraseology; verb patterning

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: analysis of advanced non-native corpora; analysis of edited text; error tagging; error analysis, with a particular focus on implications for language teaching in the EU institutions

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: analysis of learner corpora with particular focus on the construct of accuracy; error tagging; L2 developmental research

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: analysis of learner corpora with particular focus on the construct of accuracy; error tagging; L2 developmental research

Scientific Collaborator

Scientific Collaborator
■ Research interests: computer-assisted discourse studies; American studies; religious rhetoric; political discourse

Chef de travaux
■ Research interests: teaching specialized translation; advertising adaptation; technical writing