General Linguistics

Hilde De Vaere

Post-doctoral researcher

 

Biography

  • 1975–1979: Master of Arts (licentiaat) in Germanic Language and Literature: Dutch - English
  • 1979–1980: complementary programme (aanvullende kandidatuur): German
  • 1981–2016: Teacher of Dutch, English and German
  • 2007–2011: Teacher Trainer Blackboard Learning Platform
  • 2012–2015: Postgraduate studies: Scandinavian Studies
  • 2015: Master of Arts in Language and Literature: Scandinavian Studies 
  • 2020: Doctor of Linguistics

Research interests

  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Syntax and semantics
  • Alternating constructions
  • Ditransitivity
  • Case Theory
  • Integration of ICT in language teaching and CALL 

Dissertations

  • MA Thesis (1979): Abstract nouns in –dom,  –hood and –ship
  • BA Thesis (2012): När brödrosten utträder ur sitt brödrostskap  ­–  Nominaliseringssuffix   –dom, –het och ­–skap
  • MA Thesis (2015): “När brödrosten utträder ur sitt brödrostskap”- En undersökning av semantiken i de svenska nominaliseringssuffixen –skap och –het utifrån moderna ordbildningsteorier
  • PhD Thesis (2020): The ditransitive alternation in present-day German. A corpus-based analysis. 

Current project

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Publications

    • De Vaere, Hilde, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems. 2018. Alternating constructions with ditransitive 'geben' in present-day German. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2017-0072
    • Willems, Klaas, De Cuypere, Ludovic & De Vaere, Hilde. 2019. Recording and explaining : exploring the German ditransitive alternation. In M. Bagriacik, A. Breitbarth, & K. De Clercq (Eds.), Mapping linguistic data : essays in honour of Liliane Haegeman. 313–322. Ghent: Linguistics Department Ghent University. https://www.haegeman.ugent.be/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Willems-et-al.pdf
    • De Vaere, HIlde. 2020. The ditransitive alternation in present-day German. A corpus-based analysis. Doctoral dissertation. UGent: Gent. 
    • De Vaere, Hilde, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems. 2021. Constructional variation with two near-synonymous verbs: the case of schicken and senden in present-day German. Language Sciences, 83(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2020.101313
    • De Vaere, Hilde, Kolkmann, Julia, & Belligh, Thomas. 2020. Allostructions Revisited. Journal of Pragmatics 170, 96-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.08.016

Text books:

  • Aerts, Dirk, Hilde De Vaere, Siska Rondelez & Roel Vandersteegen. 2002. Los geht’s 1. Wommelgem: Van In.
  • Aerts, Dirk, Hilde De Vaere, Siska Rondelez, Gerda Schaut, Roel Vandersteegen, & Marcel Verstraete. 2003. Los geht’s 2. Wommelgem: Van In.
  • Aerts, Dirk, Hilde De Vaere, Siska Rondelez, Gerda Schaut, Roel Vandersteegen & Marcel Verstraete. 2004. Los geht’s 3. Wommelgem: Van In.
  • De Vaere, Hilde, Ann Manhaeve, & Stefan Vaes. 2009. Alles Klar 1. Wommelgem: Van In.
  • De Vaere, Hilde, Ludo Jacobs & Stefan Vaes. 2010. Alles Klar 2. Wommelgem: Van In.

Presentations

De Vaere, Hilde, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems. (2017). A corpus based investigation of alternating indirective constructions in German. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) 23, 20 – 22 April 2017, University of Texas at Austin (USA).

De Vaere, Hilde, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems. (2017). The ditransitive alternation in present-day German. A corpus based investigation of geben. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 10 – 13 September 2017, University of Zürich (Switzerland).

De Vaere, Hilde, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems. (2017). The projectionist and constructional approach in the study of alternation constructions. LinGhentian Doctorials 20 December 2017, University of Ghent (Belgium).

De Vaere, Hilde, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems. (2018). The morphosyntactic variation of the ditransitive argument structure construction in present-day German. Tenth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG10) 16-18 July 2018, Sorbonne Nouvelle University-Paris 3 (France).

 De Vaere, Hilde, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems. (2018). The difference between semantics and pragmatic/encyclopaedic knowledge in a constructional account of alternating constructions. Constructional semantics: Cognitive, functional and typological approaches (ConstSem) 24-25 August 2018, University of Helsinki (Finland).

De Vaere, Hilde, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems. (2019). Construction or allostruction? On the constructional status of ditransitive argument structures in German. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), 21 – 24 August 2019, University of Leipzig (Germany).

De Cuypere, Ludovic, Hilde De Vaere, Klaas Willems & Thomas Belligh. (2021). Models don't explain. Theoretical and empirical challenges to modelling syntactic alternations. Eleventh International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11) 18-20 August 2021, University of Antwerp (Belgium).