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TINE BREBAN

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Tine Breban is a postdoctoral researcher of the Research Foundation-Flanders (October 2007 until October 2010). Her research project is entitled “Towards a comprehensive semantic and formal description of the deictification of adjectives in the English noun phrase”. During the academic year 2008-2009, she stayed as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Stanford University on a Fulbright grant and a mobility grant of the Research Foundation-Flanders. Her main research interests are the grammaticalization processes affecting adjectives and determiners in the English noun phrase, as well as more theoretical issues concerning grammaticalization such as types of (inter)subjectification, secondary grammaticalization, the role of reanalysis and analogy and most recently construction grammar approaches to grammaticalization.

Tine Breban obtained an MA in Language and Literature: Germanic Languages (English and Dutch) from the University of Leuven in 2002. During her PhD-research, she has been working on the projects Categorization and instantiation in the nominal group: A functional appoach to the English nominal group (FWO G.0218.01) (October 2002 – December 2004) and Grammaticalization, emergent grammar and the English NP (OT/04/12) (January 2005 – December 2006). In December 2006, she defended her PhD thesis on the semantic and grammatical properties of the English adjectives of general comparison (supervisor Kristin Davidse ). She was previously employed as a postdoctoral researcher on a grant from the Research Council of K.U.Leuven (January - September 2007).

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Tine Breban
University of Leuven
Department of Linguistics
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
PO Box 3308
B-3000 Leuven (Belgium)
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+32 16 32 50 11
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+32 16 32 47 67
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