Hannah Thaens

Campus: Leuven
Room: LETT 02.24
E-mail: hannah.thaens@kuleuven.be
Hannah Thaens

 

Curriculum Vitae

Hannah Thaens (2002) completed a BA in Linguistics and a one-year MA in Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics at the University of Groningen. Her master’s thesis focused on verbal agreement in Basque. Afterwards, she finished a two-year ResMA in Linguistics at Leiden University. Her research master’s thesis proposed a novel syntactic analysis of ellipsis, focusing on VP-ellipsis, sluicing, and fragment answers. She joined CRISSP in October 2026, working on the Categories and Categorization in Afrikaans and Dutch (CatCAD) project as a PhD student.

Research interests

      • Agreement
      • Ellipsis
      • Minimalist syntax
      • Morphosyntax