Hubert Cuyckens studied Germanic Languages (Dutch
and English), with a specialization in linguistics at the University
of Antwerp.
After obtaining his MA in 1979, he worked as a research fellow of
the National Fund of Scientific Research and then as a teaching
assistant at the University of Antwerp. He completed his Ph.D. in
1991, and stayed on at the University of Antwerp combining his research
into the semantics of prepositions with an almost full-time job
as a teacher of English. In 1997-98, he spent one year at the University
of Hamburg as a Humboldt Research Fellow. Since October 1998, he
has held a tenured appointment at the University of Leuven as a
professor of English language and linguistics.
His recent research and teaching is mainly concerned with issues
in the diachrony of English, from a cognitive-functional and usage-based
perspective, and in particular with grammaticalization and complementation
in the history of English. Since 2007, he has been principal investigator
(with Kristin Davidse) of the interuniversity research project 'Grammaticalization
and (Inter)subjectification' (GRAMIS).
Hubert Cuyckens is the (co-)editor of several volumes in the domains
of lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, and adpositions. He
is co-editor (with Dirk Geeraerts) of The Handbook of Cognitive
Linguistics.
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