Peter Lauwers
Hoofddocent at Ghent University
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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SeniorPeter Lauwers is a senior lecturer in French linguistics at Ghent University with over a decade of academic experience and a PhD-winning monograph that remains a reference on early 20th-century French reference grammar. His research bridges historical linguistics and contemporary descriptive work on modern French, focusing on copular constructions, semi-copulas, grammaticalization/subjectification, and mismatches between lexical category and function. He is known for documenting underdescribed phenomena—creative uses of adjectives and nouns, and specificational copular constructions—and for applying Construction Grammar tools to French data. Lauwers has published around 70 peer-reviewed papers and edited five thematic volumes, combining rigorous comparative analysis with innovative theoretical perspectives. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he brings a rare blend of historiographic depth and fresh empirical descriptivism, often highlighting subtle subjective meaning effects in grammaticalization processes.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SKIRT/SKIRT9
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
SKIRT version 9 -- advanced radiative transfer in dusty systems
Contributions:1 review, 728 commits, 305 PRs in 4 years 10 months
radiative-transfer
SKIRT/SKIRT7
Apr 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 375 commits, 23 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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