Descriptive English Grammar

Recently completed and forthcoming doctoral theses by members of the research group are:

• Griet Beheydt, A contrastive study of the English and Dutch tense systems (2006)
• Jim Bruyndonckx, The expanded form in English (March 2001)
• Bert Cappelle, Particle patterns in English: A comprehensive coverage (May 2005)
• Caroline Gevaert, The history of anger: The lexical field of anger from Old to Early Middle English (July 2007)
  
• Jimmy Ureel, The acquisition of English tense forms by Dutch-speaking L2 learners
  
• An Verhulst, Verbal expressions of non-epistemic necessity and obligation in English (2008)

In recent years several research grants for projects have been obtained by the research team Descriptive English Grammar:

• from the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO): a research project grant was obtained for 1998-2003, followed by a new grant for 2004-2008.
• from the Research Council of the K.U.Leuven: a first project was funded for 10/1997-09/2001 and it was followed by a second project, funded for 10/2001-09/2005.

These past and current research projects were and are aimed at writing the multivolume grammar of the English verb phrase.
Some members of the research team have obtained an individual research grant: An Verhulst and Bert Cappelle currently hold a doctoral and a postdoctoral research grant, respectively, from the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO), both till 30 September 2008.