Dr Daniel Van Olmen
Senior LecturerResearch Overview
My research focuses on tense, mood and modality, pragmatic markers, indefinites and negation. It deals mainly with (West) Germanic but I also have a keen interest in Standard Average European and typology. My work can be situated in the fields of areal linguistics, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, functional/cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics.
Current Teaching
- LING103: Linguistics
- LING220 (convenor): Structures of the world's languages
- LING313 (convenor): Language change in English and beyond
- LING420tc (co-convenor): Linguistic Analysis
- LING439: Cognitive Linguistics
External Roles
- Editor-in-chief of the Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs book series (https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/16128)
- Former editor of Ampersand: An International Journal of General and Applied Linguistics (2014-2018)(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ampersand)
Current Research
- corpus-driven approach to directive strategies in English and Dutch
- modality in World Englishes beyond auxiliaries
- impersonalization strategies in West Germanic
- typological study of imperative negation
Career Details
Previous employment
- postdoctoral research fellow at the North-West University Potchefstroom, South Africa
- pre- and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
- predoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium
Education
- PhD in linguistics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
- MA in advanced studies in cognitive and functional linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium
- MA in Germanic linguistics and literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
- BA in Germanic linguistics and literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
Exploring social media in the early twentieth century: the picture postcard
Oral presentation
Workshop 'Imperatives and other directive strategies', 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
- Research Group in Cognitive Linguistics