Tine DEFOUR (Dr.)

Lic. (Ghent, 2001), MA Old and Middle English (Dublin, 2002), PhD in Linguistics (Ghent, 2007)

Post-doctoral Research Officer (FWO)

• Office: Munckkaai 42
• Tel: +32-9-264.3792
• Office hours: by appointment
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• Historical corpus linguistics
• Grammaticalisation and (inter)subjectification theories
• The semantic-pragmatic development of discourse markers
• Old and Middle English

• A diachronic corpus-based study of pragmatic markers in English: semantic development and grammaticalisation