Tim A.F. Ongenae (°1997, Eeklo, Belgium) obtained in 2019 a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Literature: English-Latin (Ghent University), in 2020 a master’s degree in Historical Linguistics and Literature (Ghent University) and in 2022 a master's degree in Advanced Studies in Linguistics: Linguistics in a Comparative Perspective (Ghent University & KULeuven). He also started a bachelor’s degree in Italian Linguistics and Literature in 2020. In September 2025, Tim completed his PhD in Linguistics with a dissertation on anticausativization and labile verbs in the diachrony of Latin. His research interests include Latin linguistics (focus on diachrony), historical linguistics, diachronic linguistics, linguistic typology, syntax, semantics and corpus linguistics. He mainly works on argument structure and valency alternations in the diachrony of Latin.
From October 2026 onwards, he is also affiliated with the University of Texas at San Antonio for a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Belgian-American Educational Foundation.
