FEST member - Hendrik De Smet
Bio
Hendrik De Smet studied English and Dutch at the University of Leuven. As an exchange student he studied English at the University of Helsinki. He obtained his MA in 2003. From October 2003 to October 2004 he worked as a project researcher to the project The diachronic evolution of complement constructions in English: Distribution and motivation (OT/2003/20/TBA). From October 2004 to October 2008 he worked as a researcher of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO) on a PhD supervised by Hubert Cuyckens and Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam), on diffusional change in the English system of complementation. Since October 2008 he has started work as a postdoctoral researcher of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO). His current research is concerned with language change in various domains of grammar and aims at integrating changes and their underlying mechanisms with current views on synchronic language structure, processing and use. He has been a guest researcher at the universities of Amsterdam (2006), Freiburg (2010) and Edinburgh (2012).
Contact
E-mail: Hendrik De Smet
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University of Leuven
Department of Linguistics
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, box 3308
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Phone: +32 16 32 47 72
Fax: +32 16 32 47 67
Office: room 01.29 of the Faculty of Arts of KULeuven