PhD students

As main supervisor:

• Fen Huang (since 2024)
  Does grammatical optionality interfere with language production and comprehension? An experimental study
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Ruiming Ma (since 2024)
  Does grammatical optionality complicate speech production and comprehension? The case of Mandarin Chinese
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Sumin Guan (since 2022)
  A multifactorial analysis of Chinese analytic passive constructions
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Chiara Paolini (since 2021)
  How much does meaning matter? A fresh look at grammatical alternations
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Tanguy Dubois (defended 2023)
  Particle placement and genitive alternations in EFL learner spoken syntax: core probabilistic grammar and/or L1-specific preferences?
  UCL / KU Leuven PhD dissertation (co-tutelle, with Magali Paquot as 2nd supervisor)

• Yi Li (defended 2023)
  A probabilistic grammar analysis of the theme-recipient alternation in Mandarin, and of its sensitivity to lectal factors
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Alexandra Engel (defended 2022)
  The register-specificity of probabilistic grammars in English and Dutch: Combining corpus analysis and experimentation
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Benedikt Heller (defended 2018)
  Stability and fluidity in syntactic variation world-wide: the genitive alternation across varieties of English [.pdf]
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Melanie Röthlisberger (defended 2018)
  Regional variation in probabilistic grammars: A multifactorial study of the English dative alternation [.pdf]
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Katharina Ehret (defended 2016)
  An information-theoretic approach to language complexity: variation in naturalistic corpora [.pdf]
  University of Freiburg PhD dissertation

• Ulrike Schneider (defended 2014)
  Frequency, chunks and hesitations: a usage-based analysis of chunking in English [.pdf]
  University of Freiburg PhD dissertation

• Christoph Wolk (defended 2014)
  Integrating aggregational and probabilistic approaches to language variation [.pdf]
  University of Freiburg PhD dissertation 

As co-supervisor:

• Laetitia Van Driessche (since 2023)
  PPs, ASC and World Englishes
  University of Zürich PhD dissertation

• Jorina Brysbaert (defended 2023)
  Register variation in the expression of contrastive subjects in French: a corpus-based study
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Robbert De Troij (defended 2023)
  Natiolectal variation in Dutch grammar
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation

• Mariana Montes (defended 2021)
  Cloudspotting: visual analytics for distributional semantics
  KU Leuven PhD dissertation