Research interests
- Word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters (werkwoordelijke eindgroepen)
- The internal stratification of Belgian Dutch, and the (synchronic) relationship between Netherlandic Dutch and Belgian Dutch
- Syntactic differences between original Dutch and translated Dutch
- Usage-based Construction Grammar
- Corpus linguistics
- Quantitative methods in variational linguistics
Current research project (2007-2010)
- Linguistic indicators of translated Dutch: a quantitative corpus-based investigation into the status of grammatical alternations (University College Ghent)
Past research projects
- 2006-2007 - GOA project: Meaning in-between structure and the lexicon (University of Ghent).
- 2002-2006 - FWO project: The stratification of supraregional Dutch in Flanders (University Of Leuven).
- 2000-2002 - OOI project: VORAX - Friendly Environment for the use of retrieval and analysis techniques in corpuslinguistic studies (University of Leuven).