Curriculum Vitae

Lobke Aelbrecht (°1983) began her studies in Germanic Languages at the K.U.Brussels and completed them at the K.U.Leuven in 2005. Her Master thesis compared two analyses of the nominal phrase, the NP analysis and the DP analysis, using the HPSG framework. From September 2005 on she is connected to the K.U.Brussels again as a PhD student (BOF). During the first four months of her position she was a visiting researcher at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and she spent the spring quarter of her third year at the University of Chicago.

Research

Lobke Aelbrecht is working on a doctoral dissertation on the formal licensing requirements on ellipsis and is mostly using data from Dutch dialects and English. Her advisers are Guido vanden Wyngaerd andJeroen van Craenenbroeck.

Publications and talks

Journal articles

1.  Niemand nie in  Vlaamse spreektaal. Submitted to TABU, the Netherlands.

2. Dutch modal complement ellipsis. To appear. Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics : Proceedings of the Colloque de syntaxe et sémantique à Paris 2007.

3.  Negatieverdubbeling in Vlaamse spreektaal. 2008. Over Taal, 47:1, 6-9.

4.  Ellipsis in negative fragment answers. To appear. International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology (ASJU).

5.  IP ellipsis in Dutch dialects. 2006. J. Van de Weijer & B. Los (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, 1-13. 

Edited volume

1. Proceedings of the Annual Linguist’s Day of the Belgian Linguistic Society 2008. With Dany Jaspers. To appear online, 2008.

Presentations

Conference, workshop and meeting presentations (based on an anonymously reviewed abstract)

1. VP ellipsis in Dutch and English. CGWS 23, University of Edinburgh. June 2008.

2.  Ellipsis licensing as Agree. WCCFL, UCLA California. May 2008.

3. Modal complement ellipsis as deletion. Colloquium in Generative Grammar, University of Lisbon. April 2008.

4. Dutch modal complement ellipsis: deletion in narrow syntax. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago. January 2008.

5. Dutch modals with a null VP proform complement. Colloque de syntaxe et sémantique à Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris. October 2007.

6. Modal complement ellipsis in Dutch. BIDE07 Student Conference, University of Bilbao/Deusto. July 2007.

7. “Hij wil wel, maar hij kan niet”: Modals without complements in Dutch. Spring meeting of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, University of Ghent. May 2007.

8. Movement and ellipsis: An analysis of gapping. 2^nd Student Conference on Formal Linguistics, AdamMickiewiczUniversity. April 2007.

9. Stripping the gap: Stripping and gapping in Dutch. Syntax Aio Meeting, TilburgUniversity. November 2006.

10. IP-ellipsis in Dutch dialect clefts. LIBILEM Student Conference, StendhalUniversityGrenoble. July 2006.

11. Ellipsis and negative fragment answers. BIDE06 Student Conference, University of Bilbao/Deusto. June 2006.

12. Maybe that the main clause is missing: Clausal ellipsis in Belgian Dutch. Spring meeting of the Linguistic Society of Belgium, Catholic University of Leuven. May 2006.

Conference, workshop and meeting presentations (invited)

1. Ellipsis is deletion: a case study. Workshop on Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Chicago. March 2008.

Conference, workshop and meeting presentations (no selection)

1. Licensing ellipsis: Under which conditions can ellipsis take place. Dag van het Onderzoek, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. May 2008.

2. A movement account of Dutch gapping. Linguistics in the Netherlands-day, UtrechtUniversity. February 2007.

3. IP-ellipsis in Dutch dialect constructions. Linguistics in the Netherlands-day, UtrechtUniversity. February 2006.