Assistant Professor in English Linguistics - University of Antwerp
[R]ecommended for anyone interested in temporality and crosslinguistic semantics.
De Wit has managed to something remarkable,
which is to construct a comparative analysis of an underexamined issue of tense and aspect that has typological promise.
(Dickey 2018, Folia Linguistica)
Oxford University Press (2017)
Last updated: 28-04-2021
Publications
Monographs (1)
De Wit, Astrid (2017), The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages (Oxford studies of time in language and thought). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed in:
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Altshuler, D. (2018), Language 94(2): 471-475.
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Dickey, S. (2018), Folia Linguistica 52(2): 523–530.
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Plungian, V. (2018), Voprosy Jazykoznanija (Topics in the study of language) 5: 131-136.
papers in peer-reviewed books and journals (22)
De Wit, Astrid, Peter Petré & Frank Brisard (2020), 'Standing out with the progressive'. Journal of Linguistics [Special issue Beyond Time]. 53(3): 479-514.
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Anthonissen, Lynn, Astrid De Wit & Tanja Mortelmans (2019), '(Inter)subjective uses of the Dutch progressive constructions'. Linguistics 57(5): 1111-1159.
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De Wit, Astrid, Frank Brisard & Michael Meeuwis (2018), 'The epistemic import of aspectual constructions: The case of performatives'. Language and Cognition 10(2): 234-265.
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De Wit, Astrid (2016), ‘The relation between aspect and inversion in English’. English Language and Linguistics 20(1): 107-128.
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Conference presentations (45)
De Wit, Astrid (6-9-2019), 'A cross-linguistically applicable modal account of the present tense', Association for Linguistic Typology: Annual meeting, Pavia.
De Wit, Astrid & Philippe De Brabanter (6-8-2019), 'The use of the English progressive with verbs of communication: An epistemic analysis', International Cognitive Linguistics Association, Nishinomiya, Japan.
De Wit, Astrid & Laura Michaelis (17-7-2018), 'Inflectional constructions and the meaning of progressive performatives in English', International Conference on Construction Grammar, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
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Teaching
English Sociolinguistics. MA, University of Antwerp. February 2019 - present.
Fieldwork in English Linguistics. MA, University of Antwerp. October 2018 - present.
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English Proficiency 4. BA2, University of Antwerp. February 2020 - present.
Advanced issues in Synchronic English Linguistics 1. MA1, Université Libre de Bruxelles. February 2016 - June 2018.
Algemene Taalwetenschap 1: Pragmatiek (General Linguistics 1: Pragmatics). BA2, University of Antwerp. October 2016 - February 2017.
Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. BA2, Université Libre de Bruxelles. November 2015.
English Grammar: Exercises. BA1, University of Antwerp. October 2009 - May 2014.
Tense and Aspect from a cross-linguistic perspective. MA-course Typology, University of Antwerp. 22-11-2011 & 29-10-2013.
Scribende (English writing proficiency), BA2, teaching assistance, University of Antwerp. October 2010 - December 2010.
Language in Use (BA2 and BA3), teaching assistance, University of Antwerp. January 2013 – June 2013.
Curriculum Vitae
About me
I hold a BA in Linguistics and Literature (English and Dutch) from the University of Antwerp (2007), an MA in Linguistics from the University of Antwerp (2008), a Research MA in Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam (2010), and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Antwerp (2014). In the academic year 2014-2015, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder under a one-year fellowship granted by the Belgian American Educational Foundation. From 2015 until August 2018, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Linguistics (research group LaDisco) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles by virtue of a three-year grant from the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS).
As of 1 October 2018 I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Antwerp and its Grammar and Pragmatics research center.
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In my monograph The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages, published with OUP and reviewed in Language 94(2), Folia Linguistica 52(2) and Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2018(5), I analyze how speakers of languages with diverse aspect systems report present-time situations. Apart from that, I have published on tense, aspect, modality and mirativity in a variety of edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Linguistics, Language and Cognition and Studies in Language.
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I am the syntax, semantics and typology editor for the Elsevier open-access journal Ampersand.
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