Projects

2023-2027 - The emergence of syntactic complexity. The first language acquisition of cleft sentences in French as a window onto the syntax - prosody - Information Structure interface (PI of the project + supervisor of PhD student Tess Wensink)

Project abstract on KU Leuven research portal

Project abstract on Fris portal

2018 - .... French L3 for refugees

I am currently involved in an exciting project, co-founded with Nadine Janssens, that's dedicated to supporting refugees' third language acquisition of French in a bilingual country (as Belgium is). 

Here's the link to our website (unfortunately only in Dutch).

This is our Facebook page (in Dutch).

2018-2022 Contrastive subjects in French (main supervisor of PhD by Jorina Brysbaert)

Abstract on the official KU Leuven research portal

2016-2020 The First Language Acquisition of Information Structure in French (FLAcIS) (PI of the project, main supervisor of PhD by Morgane Jourdain)

Website of the project (with papers, talks and link to the project's workshop)

Abstract on the official KU Leuven research portal

On the Flanders FRIS Research portal

2013-2018 Presentational clefts in French and Italian (PI of the project; main supervisor of the PhD by Lena Karssenberg)

Website

2009-2014 Topicality markers in French: syntactic, discursive and prosodic analysis (co-supervisor of PhD by Tom Velghe)

Project on Research Portal