Jean-Christophe Verstraete#
| Membership Number: | 4223 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0005010/jcv |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - now Professor (Research Council), Dept of Linguistics, University of Leuven
- 2016 - now Honorary Senior Lecturer, Linguistics, Australian National University
- 2010 - 2017 Associate Professor (Research Council), Dept of Linguistics, University of Leuven
- 2015 Directeur d'Etudes Associé, EHESS, Paris
- 2010 Marie Curie Fellow, University of Western Australia & University of Melbourne
- 2007 - 2010 Assistant Professor (Research Council), Dept of Linguistics, University of Leuven
- 2003 - 2012 Honorary Research Fellow, Dept of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne
- 2002 - 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation-Flanders
- 2001 Visiting Scholar, University of Aarhus
- 1998 - 2002 Doctoral Fellow, Research Foundation-Flanders
Fields of Scholarship
- Language documentation
- Linguistic typology
- Clause combining
- Mood & modality
- Case systems
- Information structure
- Languages (Cape York Peninsula, Australia)
- Umpithamu
- Yintyingka
- Umbuygamu
- Lamalama
Honours and Awards
- 2015: Humanities & Social Sciences Award, Royal Academy for Science and the Arts
- 2014: Science Communication Award, Royal Academy for Science and the Arts (Awarded jointly with historian Jo Tollebeek)
