Full professor

Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven
room 02.08
tel. ++32 (0)16 32 47 92
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1999- Department Linguistics (Romance Languages), Full Professor French and Romance Linguistics
1994-1999 K.U.Leuven, Department Linguistics (Romance Languages), Professor French and Romance Linguistics (full-time)
1989-1994 Permanent Position at the NFWO (National Science Foundation)
1988-1989 K.U.Brussel, Dep. Germanic Philology, Assistant Professor General Linguistics (part-time)
1986-1988 Siemens-Metal & Leuven Research and Development : research project machine translation (French-Dutch)
1985-1994 K.U.Leuven, Department Linguistics (Romance Languages), Assistant- Professor French and Romance Linguistics
1983-1985 Visiting Scholar University of California, San Diego (Oct. 1983 - Jan. 1984) and Harvard University (Febr 1984– Jan 1985)
1982-1983 K.U.Leuven, Department Linguistics (Romance Languages), Assistant
1981-1982 Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Dep. Romance Philology, Assistant-Professor French Linguistics
1980-1981 Leave of absence K.U.Leuven, pre-doctoral research Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
1975-1980 K.U.Leuven, Department Linguistics (Romance Languages), Assistant
1981 – Ph. D. Philosophy & Arts, Romance Linguistics
1974 – Masters Romance Philology

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Research

• comparative research on syntax of Romance languages with a strong interest for
  • grammaticalisation theory
  • case and syntactic relations
  • auxiliaries
• contrastive research on syntax of French and Dutch
• research on French connectives as peripheral elements

Ph. D. Students

• Claire Meul

Current projects

• Nederlandse Grammatica voor Franstaligen (NGF)
• Grammaire de Référence du français o.l.v Abeillé et al. (medewerker)
• BFQS-project (Les expressions verbales figées de la francophonie. Les variétés de Belgique, de France, du Québec et de Suisse)
• Project Les marqueurs de topicalisation en français. FWO project G.063209
• Les marqueurs de topicalisation. Etude comparée français-néerlandais (2010-2012). Projet TOURNESOL Belgique-France (LATTICE-Université de Paris 3)

Project Collaborators:

• Claire Meul
• Tom Velghe

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Recent publications

For a list of publications, click here

Teaching

For a list of courses tought by B. Lamiroy, in Leuven and Kortrijk, click here.

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