Current academic position

Research Associate , Belgian National Scientific Research Fund (F.N.R.S.)

Education

• MA in English and Dutch (Licence en Langues et Littératures Germaniques, Université Catholique de Louvain), 1999
• Teacher Training Certificate (UCL), 1999
• Master of Arts in Language Studies (Lancaster University, UK), 2000
• PhD in English Linguistics (UCL), 2004

Research stays

• University College London ( UK ), May – July 2002
• Stanford University ( USA ), September 2004 – September 2005
• Osaka University ( Japan ), October 2007
• Uppsala University ( Sweden ), November – December 2007

Research interests

• Corpus Linguistics and the use of corpora for the description and teaching of language
• Cognitive Linguistics, its integration with corpus linguistics and its applications in foreign language teaching
• Prototypicality and its relation to linguistic frequency
• Experimental methods in linguistic research
• Causative constructions
• Verb lexicon, especially highly polysemous verbs
• World Englishes
• Learner Englishes
• Link between World Englishes and Learner Englishes

Publications: click here to view the list

E-mail: gaetanelle.gilquin@uclouvain.be

Address

Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
Collège Erasme
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B -1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
BELGIUM

Phone number: (+32) 10 479259