Sabbatical Karen Lahousse: The pragmatics-syntax interface in French: theoretical and sociolinguistic approach KU Leuven
The planned research focuses on the interaction of pragmatics with syntax in French, from a theoretical, sociolinguistic and innovative methodological perspective. Over the past five years, I have conducted research on the pragmatic concepts of topic, focus and contrast (i.e. discourse pragmatics, information structure), as expressed by syntactic structures and discourse markers (Lahousse 2017/2022a/2022b, Lahousse & Verwimp 2017, ...