Funded projects
2024-2028
Main applicant of a project funded by the Research Council of the University of Leuven
Semantic and areal patterns in 'lexical acculturation': A lexical-typological study of Australian languages
2024-2027
Co-promotor (with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi), Postdoctoral Fellowship for Dr Thomas Van Hoey (Postdoctoral fellowship, Research Foundation Flanders)
Borrowing iconic words: Loss, transfer and reinvention of depiction
2019-2022
Promotor (with Hendrik De Smet), Postdoctoral Fellowship for Dr Guglielmo Inglese (Postdoctoral fellowship, Research Foundation Flanders)
Towards a diachronic typology of the middle voice
2018-2022
Main applicant of a collaborative project funded by the Research Council of the University of Leuven (with Bert Cornillie, Kristin Davidse, Elwys De Stefani)
Beyond the clause: Encoding and inference in clause combining
2018-2021
Promotor, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Dr Dana Louagie (Postdoctoral fellowship, Research Foundation Flanders)
Re-configuring ‘NPs’ in Australian languages. Towards an alternative typology
2018-2020
Main applicant of a project funded by the Humanities Group of the University of Leuven
The development of full-scale dictionary apps for five languages of the Princess Charlotte Bay Region (Cape York Peninsula, Australia)
2016-2017
Promotor, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Dr Stef Spronck (Postdoctoral fellowship, Research Council, University of Leuven)
Out of the matrix: Deconstructing perspective-changing structures
2011-2016
Co-applicant of a collaborative project funded by the Research Council of the University of Leuven (with Bert Cornillie, Kristin Davidse)
The Multiple Functional Load of grammatical signs in text construction and processes of language change
2010-2014
Promotor, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Dr An Van linden (Postdoctoral fellowship, Research Foundation Flanders)
Insubordination in the deontic domain: A semantic and constructional typology
2009-2013
Partner Investigator of a Marie Curie IRSES Project, funded by FP7 (with University of Manchester, University of Paris-7, University of Melbourne, University of Western Australia)
Tense, aspect, mood and evidentiality in Australian Aboriginal languages
2009-2010
Promotor, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Dr An Van linden (Postdoctoral fellowship, Research Council, University of Leuven)
The limits of complementation: Constituency versus scope and relationality
2008-2012
Main applicant of a project funded by the Research Council of the University of Leuven
Optional ergative marking and the architecture of case systems
2008-2009
Promotor, Senior Fellowship for Prof. Sander Adelaar (Senior fellowship, Research Council, University of Leuven)
A historical and typological linguistic study of Bantu influence in Malagasy
2006-2009
Main applicant and coordinator of a language documentation project funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (SOAS, University of London), now ELDP (with Peter Sutton, Alice Gaby, Bruce Rigsby)
Documentation of five Paman languages of Cape York Peninsula, Australia
2004-2005
Participant in the Cape York Peninsula Language Documentation Project, funded by the Department of Communication, IT and the arts (coordinated by Clair Hill)