Antoine Primerano (°1997, Charleroi) is currently Guest Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Ghent University. After completing a Bachelor's degree (2017) and two Master's degrees (2018-2019) in Linguistics and Literature (English-Spanish), he obtained his PhD at this very university with a dissertation on the grammaticalisation of the future and conditional in medieval Ibero-Romance (13th - 14th century) from a diatopic and linguistic contact perspective (FWO fundamental research grant), under the supervision of Prof. Dr Claudia Crocco (Universiteit Gent) and Prof. Dr Miriam Bouzouita (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
Apart from his PhD research, Antoine has been involved in the COSER project (Corpus Oral y Sonoro del Español Rural), led by Prof. Dr. Inés Fernández-Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), whose goal is to document oral manifestations of present-day rural Spanish dialects. His collaboration has consisted in dialectological fieldwork in the Canary Islands (2017, 2018 and 2019 campaigns) and the transcribing of recorded oral data.
Antoine's scholarly interests include (Ibero-)Romance linguistics and philology, (historical) morphosyntax, grammatical change, grammaticalisation, Construction Grammar, language and dialect contact, (historical) dialectology, quantitative methods in linguistics, object pronouns, argument structure, information structure, verbal periphrases, and the study of interfaces.
