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Anne Breitbarth is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University, where she has established herself as a leading researcher in historical linguistics, particularly focusing on Germanic languages, syntax, and language change. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with empirical corpus-based approaches, examining linguistic phenomena across various historical periods and dialects.
Professor Breitbarth's primary research interests include:
- Negation and Jespersen's Cycle across Germanic languages
- Syntactic change in Middle Low German and related dialects
- Dialectology with particular focus on Flemish and Dutch dialects
- Corpus construction and analysis of historical and spoken language data
- Language variation and the dynamics of linguistic change
Her recent publications demonstrate a continued focus on applying computational and corpus-based methods to historical linguistic questions, particularly examining negation patterns, verb placement, and syntactic structures across Germanic languages. She has been instrumental in developing the Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects (GCND), which provides valuable resources for studying language variation and change in the region.
Professor Breitbarth has supervised numerous PhD students, including Giuseppe Magistro and Vanessa Casanova (2023), Elisabeth Witzenhausen (2019), and Melissa Farasyn (2018). Her collaborative work extends across international boundaries, with frequent co-authorship with researchers from various institutions.
Her research has been published in leading linguistics journals and with prestigious academic publishers, demonstrating her significant contributions to the field of historical and comparative linguistics.
