Programme

We are happy to welcome 22 presenters to this year’s conference, giving us 1 keynote lecture, 17 stand-alone presentations and 4 poster presentations.

The Book of Abstracts is available here.

Conference programme

Day 1 – 15 December 2025

OPENING AND KEYNOTE
09:30 – 09:45 Conference opening by Dr. Ludovic De Cuypere
09:45 – 10:45 Keynote: Dr. Antoine Primerano Transitivity (prominence) and the micro-typology of Romance
10:45 – 11:00 BREAK

SESSION 1: Exploring linguistic constructions

Chair: Aaron Santa Maria
11:00 – 11:30 Astrid Sondakh Form and function of light verb constructions in English-Spanish bilingual communities
11:30 – 12:00 Jelle Christiaans To Do or Not To Do – puzzles in the use of verbal aspect in the Classical Greek imperative
12:00 – 12:30 Quinten Goethals Dimensions of code-switching and borrowing by Latin grammarians: the case of Servius, Consentius and Cassiodorus
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

SESSION 2: Digital communication

Chair: Ana-Maria Pleșca
13:30 – 14:00 Gijs Heynickx The effect of the remote environment on dialogue interpreters’ use of gestures
14:00 – 14:30 Marie Dewulf & Jerry Rampello Webcare through the eyes of the bystander: A cross-linguistic comparison of pragmatic-rhetorical features in hotel review-response interactions’
14:30 – 14:45 BREAK

SESSION 3: Risk and vulnerability in communication

Chair: Francesca Antonioli
14:45 – 15:15 Evelien Burgers Effective risk and crisis communication: Towards evidence-based guidelines
15:15 – 15:45 Tiago Joseph Consent on Instagram: Feminist and LGBTQIA+ perspectives

POSTER SESSION with pitches

Chair: Niels Planckaert
15:45 – 17:15 Ember Brulez & Irene Cenni Teaching vocabulary through Instagram Reels: An analysis of the multimodal strategies of Italian teacher-influencers
Francesca Digiaro Detecting grammaticalization through computational tools: the auxiliation of habeo
Arnout Devriesere The evolution of strong verbs as a reflection of linguistic history: A comparative study of Norwegian, Swedish, and Icelandic
Gabrielle Lecrosnier Agreement markers in contemporary French: Inventory, variation and perception
Reception as from 16:00

Day 2 – 16 December 2025

SESSION 4: Language in education

Chair: Frauke Vervaeke
09:30 – 10:00 Seppe Goddaert The negotiation of emotions of science education
10:00 – 10:30 Mari Alger Exploring pre-service language teachers’ emotions in Belgium and Finland using Q-methodology
10:30 – 10:45 BREAK

SESSION 5: Language and identity

Chair: Gil Verbeke
10:45 – 11:15 Lotte Remue ‘We don’t know what it means in Pashto’: Multilingual memory and the disclosure of past experiences in interpreter-mediated interaction
11:15 – 11:45 Mira Wyns Accent bias in education: Examining the impact of accents on students’ school experiences
11:45 – 12:15 Chloé Vincent Exploring resistance to the French neo-pronouns iel and al: An analysis of arguments expressed in a study on comprehensibility and appreciation
12:15 – 13:15 LUNCH

SESSION 6: Language and cognition

Chair: Frauke Vervaeke
13:15 – 13:45 Francesca Antonioli The influence of structural priming in German-to-Dutch translation: a multi-methods pilot study
13:45 – 14:15 Morris Callens Reframing Chomsky: A dynamical systems approach to the mapping problem
14:15 – 14:45 Ana-Maria Pleșca Two languages, same emotions? Investigating verbal and non-verbal cues of emotion in L1 Dutch L2 English bilinguals
14:45 – 15:00 BREAK

SESSION 7: Second language learning

Chair: Francesca Antonioli
15:00 – 15:30 Ramona Meier A web of interdependency: Investigating the causality underlying third age learners’ EFL learning process
15:30 – 16:00 Ines Almendra Villalta Ramirez Is there an academic verb lexicon in Spanish? A corpus-based analysis
16:00 – 16:15 Closing remarks

SOCIAL EVENT
18:00 – … Conference dinner and visit to the Ghent Christmas market – registered participants only!

Questions?

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at linghentiandoctorials@ugent.be. We hope to see many of you.

 

The organising committee

Aaron Santa Maria, Ana-Maria Pleșca, Francesca Antonioli, Frauke Vervaeke, Gil Verbeke and Niels Planckaert