Projects
The development of small clauses in English: constructional growth and decline KU Leuven
This study investigates the development of the English Secondary Predicate Construction, against the background of current views on language change. A Secondary Predicate Construction, or SPC, consists of a verb, a noun phrase (NP), and an Xphrase (XP). The NP and XP are in a predicative relation, similar to a subject-predicate relation in a copular clause. In (1a) for instance, consider him handsome involves a verb ...
Cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: motoric, cognitive and linguistic aspects of sentence production University of Antwerp
Cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: motoric, cognitive and linguistic aspects of sentence production. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Anna Kisiel KU Leuven
The goal of this sabbatical is twofold. On one hand I plan to establish new connections with researchers within and outside of Europe that would lead to a new scientific cooperation. On the other hand, I hope to use this time, and the expertise of the colleagues, to complete the works on the current C1-project. The new cooperations will be established via internet with colleagues overseas (e.g. Steven L. Franks at Indiana University ...
The Acquisition and Processing of Reference and Anaphora Resolution - Brussel - 05/05/2020 - 06/05/2020. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Referring to entities is a fundamental aspect of languages; it allows to refer to things and people in the world. Speakers can opt for different referential expressions (e.g. overt and null pronouns, noun phrases, proper names, etc.) to indicate a particular entity in discourse and listeners have to be able to select the correct referent according to the speaker’s intention. This is often known as anaphora ...
Re-configuring 'NPs' in Australian languages: Towards an alternative typology KU Leuven
Languages are traditionally classified as either having classic noun phrases (NPs), or not having phrasal construal at all. However, there are strong indications that many languages lie in between these two extremes, and that they have more than one type of construal available (e.g. 'classic' NP, discontinuous expressions, expressions with alternating positions for case markers, etc.). Findings from my previous research suggest that ...