Lieven VANDELANOTTE

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Lieven Vandelanotte is associate professor of English linguistics at the University of Namur and affiliated researcher in the Functional Linguistics Leuven research group at the University of Leuven. He has published on various topics in English grammar, including prenominal adjectives, modified proper names, and the structural, deictic and semantico-pragmatic properties of different reported speech constructions. He is also interested more broadly in the application of cognitive-linguistic concepts to the study of literary texts, and in 2009 published the monograph Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-Functional Approach (De Gruyter Mouton). He co-edited, with Kristin Davidse and Hubert Cuyckens, the volume Subjectification, Intersubjectification, and Grammaticalization (De Gruyter Mouton, 2010) and, with Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders, the volume Textual choices in discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics (John Benjamins, 2012), and is the linguistics editor for the journal English Text Construction (John Benjamins). He has served on the board of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education since 2006, bringing its annual conference to Namur in 2008, and was Vice-Dean of the Arts faculty in Namur from September 2009 to January 2013.