Prof. Dr. Klaas Willems

klaas.willems@ugent.be

Department

Department of Linguistics

Research group(s)

GLIMS - Ghent University Research Group on Linguistic Meaning & Structure

Research Focus

Linguistics

Philosophy

Translation Studies

Additional tags

Alignment

Alternations

Argument structure

Case marking

Coercion

Construction grammar

Dative

Ergativity

Eugenio Coseriu

General linguistics

German

History of the language sciences

Lexical semantics

Linguistic methodology

Phenomenology

Philosophy of language

Philosophy of science

Proper names

Semiotics

Syntax/semantics interface

Theory of language

Translation studies

Two-way prepositions

Verbal semantics

Verb valency

Word formation

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About

Current position:

Full Professor of General linguistics; Lic. phil. (1987), Dr. phil. (1992)

Research interests:

theory of language and linguistics; semantics, syntax/semantics interface, lexical and grammatical meaning; case, valency, dependency; German argument structure constructions; German word formation; epistemology and historiography of the language sciences; philosophy and phenomenology of language; theory of proper names; translation studies; linguistics/semiotics interface and theory of iconicity in language

Current memberships:

Co-editor (Review Editor) "Historiographia Linguistica" (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins), A1 (WoS). http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=hl

Co-editor "Energeia. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachphilosophie und Sprachwissenschaftsgeschichte" (Tübingen: Romanisches Seminar). ONLINE http://www.energeia-online.de/

Editorial Board "Sprachwissenschaft" (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter), A1 (WoS). https://www.inniatiff.de/inni/winter/englisch/frame.htm

Editorial Board "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory" (CILT) (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins). http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=CILT&show=board

Editorial Board "Studies in the History of the Language Sciences" (SiHoLS) (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins). http://beta.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=SiHoLS&show=board

Editorial Board "Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800-1925" (ACiL) (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins). http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/acil/main

Editorial Board "Figures of structuralism" (Lausanne: sdvigpress). http://sdvigpress.com/index.php?id=80

International Editorial Board "Deutsche Sprache" (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag), A1 (WoS). http://pub.ids-mannheim.de/laufend/deusprach/

Projects

Projects as supervisor

Publications

Key publications

Eugenio Coseriu : past, present and future(2021)
Oblique case-marking in Indo-Aryan experiencer constructions: historical roots and synchronic variation(2015)
- Saartje Verbeke
- Leonid Kulikov
- Klaas Willems
Philosophy of language(2015)
- Klaas Willems
Verbales Wortfeld, Norm und Polysemie: eine synchronische Analyse des verbalen 'hören'-Paradigmas im Französischen(2010)
- Klaas Willems
- Dominique Willems
The iconicity of embodied meaning. Polysemy of spatial prepositions in the cognitive framework.(2007)
- Fieke Van der Gucht
- Klaas Willems
- Ludovic De Cuypere
Produktivität, syntaktische Struktur und Norm: deskriptive Normregularitäten nominaler Wortbildungsmuster und kontrastive Wortbildungsforschung(2001)
- Klaas Willems
Meaning and interpretation: the semiotic similarities and differences between cognitive grammar and European structural linguistics(2011)
- Klaas Willems
Logical polysemy and variable verb valency.(2006)
- Klaas Willems
Kasus, grammatische Bedeutung und kognitive Linguistik: ein Beitrag zur allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft(1997)
- Klaas Willems
Eigenname und Bedeutung. Ein Beitrag zur Theorie des 'nomen proprium'.(1996)
- Klaas Willems
Intuition, introspection and observation in linguistic inquiry(2012)
- Klaas Willems
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions(2022)
- Thomas Belligh
- Klaas Willems
Geschichte und Systematik des adverbalen Dativs im Deutschen. Eine funktional-linguistische Analyse des morphologischen Kasus.(1998)
- Klaas Willems
- Jeroen Van Pottelberge
The linguistic sign at the lexicon-syntax interface: assumptions and implications of the generative lexicon theory(2013)
- Klaas Willems
'Culturomics' and the representation of the language of the Third Reich in digitized German books(2013)
- Klaas Willems
The semantics of variable case marking (Accusative/Dative) after two-way prepositions in German locative constructions: towards a constructionist approach(2011)
- Klaas Willems
A comparison of the figure representing the “fait linguistique” in the Cours de linguistique générale (1916) and its sources(2018)
- Klaas Willems
Is frequency an explanatory causal concept in linguistics?(2014)
- Klaas Willems
Bühler, Reichling, Coseriu und die Vieldeutigkeit von Sprachzeichen(2016)
- Klaas Willems
Eugenio Coserius Sprachzeichentheorie und der Prager Strukturalismus(2019)
- Klaas Willems
Alternating constructions with ditransitive geben in present-day German(2021)
- Hilde De Vaere
- Ludovic De Cuypere
- Klaas Willems
Form, meaning, and reference in natural language : a phenomenological account of proper names(2020)
- Klaas Willems

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