Yasmin Crombez

Yasmin Crombez is a (historical) sociolinguist with a particular interest in language contact phenoma. She obtained her Master’s degree in Language and Linguistics English – Dutch from Ghent University in 2019. In that same year, she started as a PhD student and teaching assistant at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, studying English-Dutch language contact in Flemish-American letters and newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. As a teaching assistant, she helped with the bachelor courses ‘Woord- en Zinsleer’ and ‘Klank- en Woordleer’, which concentrate on Dutch syntax, morphology and phonology. In 2021, she was granted a FWO fellowship for fundamental research, allowing her to fully focus on the project “From the promised land: a historical sociolinguistic study of the influence of American English on Belgian Dutch in an emigrant setting” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wim Vandenbussche and Prof. Dr. Rik Vosters. 

Selected publications

Crombez, Y., Ghyselen, A-S., Winter-Froemel, E., & Zenner, E. (2022). The socio-pragmatic parameters steering the reported selection of Anglicisms or their Dutch alternatives. Linguistics, 60(4), 973-1010. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0237