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).