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Ghent University research profile A. Breitbarth

Keywords

linguistics, diachronic generative syntax, language variation and change, language change in progress, parsed (historical and spoken) corpora, syntax-prosody interface, Middle Low German, Early New High German, Southern Dutch dialects

Countries

Belgium

Biography

I am Associate Professor of Historical Linguistics at the German section of the Linguistics Department at Ghent University. My scholarly interests range from historical and diachronic linguistics, particularly morphosyntactic variation and change including change in progress, to formal and corpus linguistics.

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Employment (2)

Ghent University: Ghent, BE

2010-01-01 to present
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2006-06-01 to 2009-12-31
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Education and qualifications (3)

Tilburg University: Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, NL

2001 to 2005 | PhD student
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: Jena, DE

1995 to 2000
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: Groningen, Groningen, NL

1998 to 1999
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Professional activities (3)

Meertens Institute: Amsterdam, NL

2020-06-01 to present | Member of the Scientific Committee
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Taal en Tongval: Ghent, BE

2018 to present
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Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung: Hamburg, DE

2018 to 2024 | Editor of "Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung"
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Funding (8)

Tracing macro-cyclical change through micro-cycles in historical Chinese

2025 to 2028 | Grant
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (Brussels, Brussels Capital, BE)
URL: https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/tracing-macro-cyclical-change-through-micro-cycles-historical-chinese
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GCND + The Parsed Spoken Corpus of Dutch Dialects +

2024 to 2028 | Grant
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (Brussels, Brussels Capital, BE)
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Anne Breitbarth

Transitivity oppositions in a diachronic typological perspective: Labile verbs in the history of the Indo-European languages

2021-01 to 2024-12 | Grant
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO) (Ghent, BE)
URL: https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/transitivity-oppositions-diachronic-typological-perspective-labile-verbs-history-indo
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G004121N
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GCND - The Spoken Corpus of Southern-Dutch Dialects

2020-05 to 2024-04 | Grant
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) (Brussels, Flanders, BE)
URL: https://www.gcnd.ugent.be/en/about-the-gcnd/
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I010120N
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Prosodic cues to syntactic reanalysis. Experimentally tracking Jespersen's cycle in progress

2019-09 to 2023-08 | Grant
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/prosodic-cues-syntactic-reanalysis-experimentally-tracking-jespersens-cycle-progress
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G004519N
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Continuity or change? The post-cyclic development of preverbal negation in continental West Germanic

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CHLG. A parsed corpus of historical Low German

2014 to 2020 | Grant
Hercules Foundation / Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://www.chlg.ugent.be
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G0F2614N
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The development of the conditional use of modal verbs in West-Germanic

2012-10 to 2015-09 | Grant
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/development-conditional-use-modal-verbs-west-germanic
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1289613N
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