Research topics

• General research topics
  • Corpus-based translation studies, corpus linguistics
  • Quantitative methods in corpus linguistics
    
    
• Specific research topics
  • Risk aversion, normalisation, conservatism in Dutch translations (with Isabelle Delaere).
  • The use of profile-based correspondence analysis in translation studies (with Koen Plevoets).
  • Variable position of PPs in Dutch (with Annelore Willems).
  • The structure of semantic networks in Dutch translations vs. Dutch original writing (with Lore Vandevoorde).
  • Word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters (this was the topic of my PhD, which I defended in 2005 at the University of Leuven, Belgium)