Jean-Christophe Verstraete#

Membership Number:4223
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:LINGUISTIC STUDIES
Elected:2016
Main Country of Residence:BELGIUM
Homepage(s):http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0005010/jcv




Present and Previous Positions

  • 2017 - now Professor (Research Council), Dept of Linguistics, University of Leuven
  • 2016 - now Honorary Senior Lecturer, Linguistics, Australian National University
  • 2010 - 2017 Associate Professor (Research Council), Dept of Linguistics, University of Leuven
  • 2015 Directeur d'Etudes Associé, EHESS, Paris
  • 2010 Marie Curie Fellow, University of Western Australia & University of Melbourne
  • 2007 - 2010 Assistant Professor (Research Council), Dept of Linguistics, University of Leuven
  • 2003 - 2012 Honorary Research Fellow, Dept of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne
  • 2002 - 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation-Flanders
  • 2001 Visiting Scholar, University of Aarhus
  • 1998 - 2002 Doctoral Fellow, Research Foundation-Flanders

Fields of Scholarship
  • Language documentation
  • Linguistic typology
  • Clause combining
  • Mood & modality
  • Case systems
  • Information structure
  • Languages (Cape York Peninsula, Australia)
  • Umpithamu
  • Yintyingka
  • Umbuygamu
  • Lamalama

Honours and Awards
  • 2015: Humanities & Social Sciences Award, Royal Academy for Science and the Arts
  • 2014: Science Communication Award, Royal Academy for Science and the Arts (Awarded jointly with historian Jo Tollebeek)

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