Peter Willemse has an MA in English and German linguistics and literature (2000) from the University of Leuven. From October 2000 to September 2005 he worked as a project researcher on the projects A functional, lexicogrammatical
approach to the English nominal group (OT/00/05) and Categorization
and instantiation in the nominal group: A functional approach to the English
nominal group (FWO G.0218.01).
During this time he prepared his Ph.D. dissertation entitled Nominal reference-point constructions: Possessive and esphoric NPs in English under the supervision of Kristin Davidse (promotor) and Liesbet Heyvaert (co-promotor), which he completed in October 2005. From January to September 2006 he was a research fellow in the Linguistics Department of the University of Leuven and a teacher of ESP in Paris, France. From October to August 2006 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher of the Research Council of the University of Leuven.
In September 2007 he took up the position of Maître de Conférences at the University of Lille 3 in France. He is also a member of the research group "Savoirs, Textes, Langages" (UMR 8163 of the CNRS).
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