Margot Janssens is a PhD researcher at the Linguistics Department of Ghent University, where she is a member of the MULTIPLES research group, while also working as a research assistant at the Flemish Sign Language Centre (VGTC). Her doctoral research is part of the ChangIN’Signs project, which investigates language change in Flemish Sign Language (VGT), the signed language used in Flanders, Belgium. Within the project, her research focuses on the role of prolonged contact with Dutch in constructional variation and change in VGT. More broadly, her research interests include usage-based linguistics, language contact, and language variation and change.
