Membres PLIN

Jean-Pierre Colson
Professor Emeritus

Research areas: phraseology and corpora; contrastive phraseology; translation studies; computational linguistics

Barbara De Cock
Professor

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

Sylvie De Cock
Professor

Research areas: spoken and written learner corpora; phraseology; English for specific purposes; contrastive linguistics

Élisabeth Degand
Full Professor

Research areas: discourse analysis; discourse markers; segmentation of oral discourse; semantics; corpus linguistics (corpus annotation, discourse annotation); contrastive linguistics (NL/FR/EN/DE); discourse/grammar interface.

Pauline Degrave
Professor

Research areas: influence of music practice and musical aptitude on Dutch language skills of French-speaking learners; music as a tool for learning a second language.

@ FNRS/ Danny Gys

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
FNRS Research Associate

Computational linguistics, computational pragmatics, natural langue inference, Universal Dependencies, human label variation

Cédrick Fairon
Full Professor

Research areas: automatic language processing; electronic dictionaries; language resources; text mining; computer-assisted language learning 

Michel Francard
Professor Emeritus

Research areas: French linguistics; sociolinguistics; lexicography; varieties of French; regional languages

Thomas François
Professor

Research areas: automatic language processing; professional language analysis; automated learning; readability; automatic text simplification; computer-assisted language learning.

Françoise Gallez
Lecturer (Professor)

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

Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Full Professor

Research areas: research on learner corpora; varieties of English; cognitive linguistics; applied Construction Grammar; writing processes

Sylviane Granger
Professor Emeritus

Research areas: acquisition of English as a foreign and second language; research on learner corpora; corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies; lexicon and phraseology; lexicography; scientific language.

Philippe Hambye
Professor

Research aereas: sociolinguistics; analysis of political and media discourse; language policies; the French-speaking world; language skills and educational and professional trajectories.

Marie-Aude Lefer
Professor

Research areas: corpus-based translation studies; corpus of learner translations; English-French contrastive linguistics; bilingual lexicography.

Fanny Meunier
Full Professor

Research areas: second and foreign language acquisition; corpus linguistics/learner corpus; bi- and multi-literacies; digital literacy; teaching English as a foreign language; initial and in-service teacher training.

Magali Paquot
FNRS Research Associate / Professor

Research areas: corpus linguistics; learner corpora; foreign language acquisition; transfer; phraseology; linguistic complexity; contrastive linguistics; scientific English; electronic lexicography.

Joachim Sabel
Full professor

Research areas: morphology and syntax of Germanic languages (especially English, Dutch, German); comparative studies of German and Japanese syntax, Austronesian languages (especially Malagasy, Tagalog, Tsou, Palauan), Bantu languages (especially Zulu, Kikuyu, Douala); language typology (language family, universal language, evolution of language(s)); theoretical morphology and syntax; pragmatics (theory of language, theory of speech acts, theory of conversational implicature); pragmatics-syntax interface; semantics-syntax interface.

Anne-Catherine Simon
Full Professor

Research areas: French linguistics; discourse analysis; prosody; syntax of spoken French; regional variation and stylistics.

Ferran Suñer Muñoz
Professor

Research areas: foreign language teaching and learning; applied cognitive grammar; understanding metaphors; German and contrastive linguistics.

Kristel Van Goethem
FNRS Research Associate / Professor

Research areas: Dutch and comparative linguistics; corpus linguistics/learner corpora; Construction Grammar; morphology-syntax interface; evaluative morphology.

Leonardo Zilio
Assistant professor in translation and interpreting technologies

Computational linguistics, digital humanities, historical linguistics, machine translation, specialised texts, terminology, translation