Dr. Eline Lismont

Eline Lismont obtained her PhD in historical sociolinguistics in April 2025, with a dissertation on the relationship between codified norms and language use in Early and Late Modern Dutch (1550–1850). Her doctoral research was funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and carried out as a joint PhD between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters) and Leiden University (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gijsbert Rutten). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Brussels Center for Language Studies (BCLS). Her research interests include prescriptivism and its influence on language use, language policy and planning, and language variation and change from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

Selected publications

• Lismont, E. (2025). Setting the Standard. Norms and usage in Early and Late Modern Dutch (1550-1850). LOT.

• Lismont, E., Rutten, G., & Vosters, R. (2023). Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective. In J. Beal, M. Lukac & R. Straaijer (Red.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism. London/New York: Routledge.