Tom Bossuyt

tom.bossuyt@ugent.be

Department

Department of Linguistics

Research group(s)

GLIMS - Ghent University Research Group on Linguistic Meaning & Structure

Research Focus

Linguistics

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About

Tom Bossuyt is a PhD student at the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University. He studied German and English linguistics and literature at Ghent University (2013–2017) and general linguistics at the University of Freiburg (2017–2020). Since November 2020, he is working on an FWO research project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Torsten Leuschner. Tom investigates adverbial clauses known as concessive conditionals from a broad typological perspective.

Projects

Projects as PhD researcher

Concessive conditionals. A typological study (2020 - 2024)

Publications

Most recent publications

Enghels, Renata, et al. “Introduction to the Special Issue Grammaticalization across Languages, Levels, and Frameworks.” LANGUAGES, vol. 9, no. 7, 2024, doi:10.3390/languages9070254.
Enghels, Renata, et al., editors. “Grammaticalization across Languages, Levels and Frameworks.” LANGUAGES, vol. 8, 2023.
Bossuyt, Tom. “Concessive Conditionals beyond Europe : A Typological Study.” STUDIES IN LANGUAGE, vol. 47, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1–31, doi:10.1075/sl.20068.bos.
Vander Haegen, Flor, et al. “Emerging into Your Family of Constructions : German [IRR Was] ‘No Matter What.’” CONSTRUCTIONS AND FRAMES, vol. 14, no. 1, 2022, pp. 150–80, doi:10.1075/cf.00058.hae.
Bossuyt, Tom, and Torsten Leuschner. “‘WH-Ever’ in German, Dutch and English : A Contrastive Study Showcasing the ConverGENTiecorpus.” New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics : Empirical and Methodological Challenges, edited by Renata Enghels et al., vol. 336, Mouton De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 183–220, doi:10.1515/9783110682588-007.

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Teaching

assistant:

Topics of the Advanced Study of German Linguistics: Variation Linguistics (A001827)

German Linguistics I (A001628) (tutorium)