Karen De Clercq
Contact information
LLF, CNRS – UMR 7110
Université de Paris
Case 7031 – 5, rue Thomas Mann,
75205 Paris cedex 13
karendc1981@gmail.com
personal webpage LLF
Research interests
I am interested in the study of language(s) in general and in the syntax and semantics of negation, quantification and the TAM-domain in particular. I obtained my doctoral degree at Ghent University on 13 December 2013 and recently published a monograph on my negation work The morphosyntax of negative markers. A nanosyntactic account. (Mouton de Gruyter). I am currently working as a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (Université de Paris 7), investigating the interaction between negation and TAM-morphology.
Papers (for an updated list of pubs see: personal webpage LLF)
Manuscripts
- with Caha, Pavel and Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. On the difference between a √ and a root.
To appear
- Tense and sentential negation: a typological study. Linguistics in the Netherlands.
- with Liliane Haegeman. Invariant die and adverbial resumption in the Ghent dialect.
- with Gert De Sutter. De verwerving van de groene en rode woordvolgorde in Vlaanderen. Een descriptieve, methodologische en theoretische aanvulling bij Meyer & Weerman (2016) Nederlandse taalkunde
Published papers
- 2020. Negation in Morphology. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press.
- 2020. Types of negation In: Viviane Déprez and M. Terese Espinal. The Oxford Handbook of Negation, Oxford University Press.
- 2019. with Guido Vanden Wyngaerd. Negative intervention in Dutch evaluative adverbs. RGG.
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2019. with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. On the idiomatic nature of unproductive morphology. In Linguistics in the Netherlands. Janine Berns & Elena Tribushinina (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp 99-114.
- 2019. French negation and Feature Conservation. to appear. In: Breitbarth et al. Cycles in Language Change, Oxford University Press, pp 199-227.
- 2019. with Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur. to appear. From negative cleft to external negator. In: Breitbarth et al. Cycles in Language Change, Oxford University Press, pp 228-248.
- 2019. Caha, Pavel; De Clercq, Karen and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd. "The Fine Structure of the Comparative". Studia Linguistica 73 (3): 470-521. https://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12107.
- 2018. with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. Unmerging analytic comparatives. In Jezikoslovlje 19 (3): 341-363, Special Issue. Lanko Marusic and Jana Willer-Gold (eds.).
- with Vanden Wyngaerd Guido. 2017. Why Affixal Negation is Syntactic. In: WCCFL 34 Proceedings. Cascadilla Press, 151-158. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/34/paper3307.pdf
- 2017. The Nanosyntax of French Negation. In: Cruschina, Silvio; Hartmann, Katharina; Remberger, Eva-Maria (eds.) Negation: syntax, semantics, and variation. Vienna University Press. Göttingen, 49-80.
- with Brasoveanu, Adrian; Farkas, Donka; Roelofsen, Floris. 2014. Question Tags and Sentential Negativity.Lingua 145, 173-193.
- with Haegeman, Liliane and Breitbarth, Anne. 2013. The syntax of polarity emphasis. In: Breitbarth, De Clercq, Haegeman (ed.) Polarity Emphasis. Lingua Special Issue.
- with Haegeman, Liliane and Lohndal, Terje. 2012. Medial Adjunct PPs in English: Implications for the syntax of sentential negation. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 35:1, 5-26.
- 2011. Squat, zero and no/nothing: syntactic negation vs. semantic negation. In: Marion Elenbaas & Rick Nouwen (eds.). Linguistics in the Netherlands 2011. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- 2010. Neg-shift in English. Evidence from PP-adjuncts. In: An, Duh-Ho & Kim, Soo-Yeon. Proceedings of the 12th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. 2010 Movement in Minimalism. Hankuk Publishing Company. Seoul. South Korea.
- 2009. Fonologische deletie in ja-neevraagfragmenten. In: Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, volume LXII.
- 2008. Proper Names Used as Common Nouns in Belgian Dutch and German. In: Botma, B.D. en Koppen, M. van. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia. 63-74.
(all downloadable papers are pre-final versions)
Monograph
- 2020. The morphosyntax of negative markers. A nanosyntactic account. Mouton de Gruyter.
Edited Volumes
- with Baǧriaçik, Metin and Breitbarth, Anne. Mapping Linguistic data. Essays in honour of Liliane Haegeman. www.haegeman.ugent.be
- with Caha, Pavel; Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. 2018. The Unplubished Manuscript. http://lingbuzz.auf.net/lingbuzz/003993
- with Baunaz, Lena; Lander, Eric and Haegeman, Liliane. 2018. Exploring Nanosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- with Breitbarth, Anne and Haegeman, Liliane. May 2013. Polarity Emphasis. Lingua Special Issue.
Stays abroad
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November 2019. Erasmus+ Teaching mobility: one week Nanosyntax course at Université de Genève, Switzerland
- 23 April-15 May 2019: Invited Research at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (host: Pavel Caha).
- 10 September - 28 September: Invited Researcher on the project The Syntax of Swedish Negation at Göteborg University (host: Henrik Rosenkvist)
- 1 April- 30 June 2016: Postdoctoral Research stay at Leipzig University as a member of Martin Haspelmath's research team. (with grant for a long stay abroad from FWO, cf. below)
- January-April 2012: Visiting Junior Specialist at the Linguistics Research Center at University of California Santa Cruz.
- September 2001 - July 2002: Erasmus student at Humboldt University Berlin.
Grants
- declined: Humboldt grant for senior researchers, 1y6months (awarded November 2019)
- FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, 3 years, terminated before end (October 2019-2022)
- FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship, 3 years + 1 year extension (October 2015-September 2019)
- FWO travel grant for long stay abroad (3 months, Leipzig University, 2016)
Presentations
Conference and workshop presentations (based on anonymously reviewed abstracts)
- De Clercq, Karen. Solving a Korean locality paradox, BCGL 12: Suppletion, allomorphy and syncretism. KU Leuven, Campus Brussels, Brussels. 16-17 December 2019.
- with Caha Pavel, De Clercq, Karen, Starke Michal and Vanden Wyngaerd Guido. How to be positive. Talk at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 42), Oslo Universitet, Oslo. 7- 11 May. 2019.
- De Clercq Karen and Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. On the idiomatic nature of unproductive morphology. Grote Taaldag, 2 February 2019. Utrecht University, Utrecht. 2019.
- De Clercq, Karen en Haegeman, Liliane. DIE second root clauses in the Ghent dialect. LAGB 2018. University of Kent. (Canterbury, 11-14 September 2018).
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De Clercq, Karen. The internal syntax of Q-words. GLOW 41. (Budapest, 11 April 2018).
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De Clercq Karen en Haegeman, Liliane. DIE second root clauses in the Ghent dialect. (2nd alternate talk/poster). GLOW 41. (Budapest, 12 April 2018).
- with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. The word-morpheme distinction, an epiphenomenon? Workshop: What is a word? University of Zürich (Zürich, 14-15 Dec 2017).
- Neg in few/little. Poster. SinFoNIJA 10. University of Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, 23-24 Oct 2017).
- with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. Reinterpreting the root suppletion generalisation. SinFoNIJA 10. University of Dubrovnik ( Dubrovnik, , 23-24 Oct 2017).
- The internal syntax of many/much and few/little. CGSW 32. NTNU (Trondheim, 13-15 Sept 2017).
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with Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur. Negative clefts breaking into the domain of standard negation: Eastern Aramaic lāw and Sicilian neca. The Negative Existential Cycle from a historical-comparative perspective. Stockholm University. (Stockholm, 4-5 May 2017)
- A Constraint on Double Negation. with Vanden Wyngaerd Guido. (Poster) The Word and the Morpheme. Humboldt University. (Berlin, 22-24 sept 2016)
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Decomposing Korean mos and molu: evidence from syncretisms. SinFonIJA 9, Masaryk University. (Brno, 15-17 Sept 2016)
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Adjectives and the ban on double negation. with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. SinFonIJA 9, Masaryk University. (Brno, 15-17 Sept 2016)
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A constraint on double negation. with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics 34. Poster. (Utah, US, 29 April – 1 May 2016).
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The development of an external negator: the Eastern Aramaic negative polarity particle lāw. with Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur. Diachronic Generative Syntax 18, Ghent University (Ghent, 29 June -1 July 2016)
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Feature Conservation: French Negation Revisited. Diachronic Generative Syntax 18, Ghent University (Ghent, 29 June -1 July 2016)
- The internal structure of negative morphemes. Poster. Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 10. Haifa University.(Haifa, Israel, 7-10 September 2015).
- A Unified Syntax of Negation. New Directions in Negation and Polarity. Jerusalem Syntax and Semantics 2015. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Jerusalem, 8-10 February 2015).
- The upward path of negation. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 28. University of Leipzig. (Leipzig, 4-5 October 2013).
- The nanosyntax of negation. Decennium: The First Ten years of CASTL. (Tromso, September 12-14 2012) (poster presentation).
- Getting a grip on sentence negation. 45th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. University of Stockholm. (Stockholm, 29 August-2 September 2012).
- No/nothing and SQUAT: syntactic negation vs. negative scope. 44th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Universidad de la Rioja (Logroño, 8-11 September 2011).
- Clause Internal scrambling in English and the distribution of PP and DP-adjuncts. with Haegeman, Liliane and Lohndal, Terje. LAGB-conference. University of Manchester (Manchester, 7-10 September 2011).
- Negative PP-adjuncts and Scope. ConSOLE XIX. Groningen University (Groningen, 5-8 January 2011).
- Neg-shift in English. Evidence from PP-adjuncts. SICOGG XII. Konkuk University (Seoul, South Korea, 17-20 August 2010).
- Neg-shift in English. Evidence from PP-adjuncts. Tabu-dag. Groningen University (Groningen, 3-4 June 2010) (poster presentation).
- No in PPs. Evidence for Neg-shift in English. 5th Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics. Newcastle University (Newcastle, UK, 23 March 2010).
Invited talks
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De Clercq, Karen. Honorific and negative portmanteaus in Korean. Workshop on Connecting roots and affixes, Masaryk University, Brno. (May 13- 14 2019)
- De Clercq, Karen . What is nanosyntax? Göteborgs Universität (Göteborg, 19 September 2018).
- De Clercq, Karen. The nanosyntax of negative markers. Göteborgs Universität (Göteborg, 13 September 2018).
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with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. "Unmerging analytic comparatives", Workshop on Shrinking Trees in Morphology, 27 April 2018, IGRA, Leipzig University, Leipzig.
- The nanosyntax of negative markers. Masaryk University (Brno 17 May 2017).
- Degree morphology in Czech and Latin. Masaryk University (Brno 16 May 2017).
- The internal structure of quantifiers. Mini-workshop on negative quantification. Goethe Uni Frankfurt. (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1 June 2016).
- The negation continuum. Colloquium. Goethe Uni Frankfurt. (Frankfurt-am-Main, 31 May 2016).
- Respons op Vincent van Heuven: Prosodie en zinsbouw. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/dagnederlandsezinsbouw/?page_id=15 Dag van de Nederlandse Zinsbouw, Radboud Universiteit. (Nijmegen, 20 November 2015).
Other talks
- De Clercq, Karen. “De echo van diepe dialectkenmerken in de informele standaardtaal: Het Gentse die”. Alumni-day. Ghent University. Belgium.
- with Haegeman, Liliane. Adverbial Resumptive DIE in the Ghent Dialect. The 2nd International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography (IWSC) (Beijing, 28-29 Oct 2017)
- with Haegeman, Liliane. The typology of V2 and the distribution of die in the Ghent dialect. Workshop V3 and resumptive adverbials. Ghent University (Ghent, 5-6 Oct 2017).
- Decomposing vague quantifiers. Tin-dag, Utrecht University (Utrecht, 4 February 2017).
- with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. Comparative root suppletion: DM vs. Nanosyntax. Tin-dag, Utrecht University (4 February 2017).
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with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. Adjectives and negation. Deriving contrariety from contradiction. BKL meeting, University of Antwerp (Antwerp, 6 May 2017).
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with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. Adjectives and negation. Deriving contrariety from contradiction. ComFort meeting, KU Leuven (Leuven, 25 April 2017).
- The internal structure of FEW/MANY: Cross-linguistic explorations. IGRA-kolloquium. Universität Leipzig (Leipzig, 25 May 2016.)
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Negative adjectives: Evidence from Czech. with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. Spring Meeting of the Belgian Society of Linguistics (Louvain-la-Neuve, 13 May 2016).
- Typologie, syncretisms and nanosyntax in the analysis of negation. Diversity Linguistics Seminar. Leipzig University (Leipzig, 12 May 2016).
- Negative Adjectives: Evidence from Czech. with Vanden Wyngard, Guido. KrowFest, celebrating Koen Roelandt's defense. KU Leuven Campus Brussels (Brussels, 1 April 2016).
- A Puzzle in Gradable Adjectives. with Vanden Wyngaerd, Guido. Taaldag van de Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek. Université Libre de Belgique (Brussels, 9 May 2015)
- Getting a grip on sentence negation. Ad hoc workshop on negation. Organized by Donka Farkas. University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, 27 February 2012). USA.
- The nanosyntax of negation. Syntax‐circle talk. University of California Santa Cruz. (Santa Cruz, 16 April 2012, USA)
- Squat, zero and no/nothing: negative polarity vs. negative scope. GIST 3: Cartographic Structures and Beyond. UGent (Ghent, 12-13 May 2011).
- No/nothing and squat: syntactic negation vs. negative scope. Taalkunde in Nederland-dag 2011. Utrecht University (Utrecht, 5 February 2011).
- No in PP-adjuncts. Evidence for Neg-shift in English. Taaldag van de Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek. Université Libre de Belgique. (Brussels, 8 May 2010).
- No in PPs. Taalkunde In Nederland-dag 2010. Utrecht University (Utrecht, 6 February 2010).
- The syntax of no in PPs. Syntax I workshop University College Brussels (Brussels, 28 January 2010).
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