anthe.sevenants

Academic CV

This page gives an overview of all my articles, presentations, teaching duties and more. All items are marked for their associated research projects. Open access documents can be downloaded directly.

Articles
Presentations
Teaching
Thesis supervision
Education services
Academic services

Articles

2026
Investigating lexical-semantic effects on morphosyntactic variation using elastic net regression
Anthe Sevenants, Freek Van de Velde & Dirk Speelman
Corpus Linguistics And Linguistic Theory 22, iss. 1.
2024
Een classificatie van simulatiegebaseerd onderzoek naar taalverandering
Anthe Sevenants & Dirk Speelman
Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij (KZM) voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 76, iss. 1.
‘Zijt gij dat of bent gij dat?’ Een alternantiestudie van de tweede persoon enkelvoud van zijn in Vlaamse tussentaal
Anthe Sevenants
Taal en Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries 75, iss. 2.
2023
De vergeten overzijde. Vlaanderen als leemte in neerlandistisch onderzoek naar het literatuuronderwijs
Lieke van Deinsen, Jeroen Dera & Anthe Sevenants
Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 139, iss. 1.
2022
De Nederlandstalige literaire canon(s) anno 2022. Een enquête naar de literaire klassieken: rapportage
Lieke van Deinsen, Anthe Sevenants & Freek Van de Velde
Keeping up with the Neighbours - An Agent-Based Simulation of the Divergence of the Standard Dutch Pronunciations in the Netherlands and Belgium
Anthe Sevenants & Dirk Speelman
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal 11, 5–26.

Presentations

2026
Micro to macro: dissecting language change through individual variation in twelve alternations
Julie Nijs & Anthe Sevenants
Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics: Data-Driven Insights into Language and Cultural Change, London
2025
An agent-based model of the reducing effect
Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, freek Van de Velde & Dirk Pijpops
Dag van de Fonetiek 2025, Utrecht
Think before you speak. How 're-entrance' might be keeping us from falling into communicative chaos
Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde & Dirk Pijpops
Linguists day of the linguistic society of Belgium (LSB) 2025, Leuven
Looking for linguistic superspreaders: Large-scale network analysis and elastic net regression
Julie Nijs & anthe Sevenants
Linguists day of the linguistic society of Belgium (LSB) 2025, Leuven
Least but not lost. Finding the requirements for gradual reduction using an agent-based model of least effort
Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde & Dirk Pijpops
Protolang 9, Vienna
Who put semantics in my syntax? Finding lexical-semantic effects on morphosyntactic variation with elastic net regression
Anthe Sevenants, Freek Van de Velde & Dirk Speelman
58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bordeaux
Enhancing C-CLAMP Metadata mining and improved network clustering
Tuur Schockaert, Julie Nijs, Anthe Sevenants & Freek Van de Velde
DH Benelux 2025, Amsterdam
Can we predict the collapse of human communication? Using computer simulations to finetune our theories
Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde & Dirk Pijpops
DH Benelux 2025, Amsterdam
Less is poor. When could the reducing effect lead to chaos?
Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde & Dirk Pijpops
Bridging the gap: Unifying approaches to linguistic evolution, Zürich
2024
Heeft scheidbaarheid betekenis? Nederlandse (on)scheidbare werkwoorden onder een computationele loep
Ann-Sophie Vrielynck & Anthe Sevenants
CogLing Days 2024, Antwerp
More than the sum of its parts: investigating individual variation through elastic net regression
Anthe Sevenants & Julie Nijs
CogLing Days 2024, Antwerpen
"The Sims" for research: the merit of using computer simulations
Anthe Sevenants
DH Virtual Discussion Group, Online
Escape from dialect: finding the origins of the new second person of ‘to be’ in Colloquial Belgian Dutch
Anthe Sevenants
57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Helsinki
Controversial conjugation: tracing the innovative second person of 'to be' in Colloquial Belgian Dutch
Anthe Sevenants
International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 12, Vienna
Embracing chaos: using elastic net regression to analyze unbalanced datasets with thousands of predictors
Anthe Sevenants & Freek Van de Velde
DH Benelux 2024, Leuven
2023
Investigating lexical-semantic effects on the red and green word order in Dutch using elastic net regression and generalised additive models
Anthe Sevenants
Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands 33, Antwerp
Connecting morphosyntax and lexical semantics with Elastic Net regression
Anthe Sevenants
KU Leuven Linguistics PhD Day, Antwerp
The Best Solution Short of Time Travel: Simulating Sociolinguistic Theories Around Why Belgian Standard Dutch Pronunciation Did Not Follow Netherlandic Innovations
Anthe Sevenants
Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference 2023, Brussels
2021
Een classificatie van simulatiegebaseerd onderzoek van taalverandering
Anthe Sevenants & Dirk Speelman
Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, Gent
Keeping up with the neighbours – An agent-based simulation of the divergence of the standard Dutch pronunciations in the Netherlands and Belgium
Anthe Sevenants & Dirk Speelman
Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, Ghent (online)

Teaching

Verandering en variatie (MA)
With Freek Van de Velde & Julie Nijs
KU Leuven
2024
English pronunciation (BA)
With Lize Vandeborght
KU Leuven
2019-2021

Thesis supervision

Exploratory research on Dutch verb clusters using a transformer model
Marthe Kellen
With Tim Van de Cruys
2023-2024
Analysing sentiment in the 2022 Dutch canon survey responses
Leander Huysman
With Freek Van de Velde & Lieke van Deinsen
2023-2024

Education services

Software programmer: Spanish proficiency exercises platform
With Katleen Van den Steen & Dirk Speelman
KU Leuven
2022
Blended learning assistant: Information literacy and plagiarism
With Lieve De Wachter
ILT
2021
Blended learning assistant: English proficiency (BA),
With Manon Buysse, Lize Vandeborght & Sofie De Smyter
KU Leuven
2020-2021

Academic services

Webmaster
Management of the QLVL website
2025-present
600 Years of KU Leuven Quiz
Writer of the special Faculty of Arts quiz organised for the 600-year anniversary of KU Leuven
With Thomas Van Hoey, Bert Oben & Melina De Dijn
2025
Tour guide for the annual English department London trip
Preparation of travel itineraries. Support and ad-hoc problem solving on location
With Manon Buysse, Lize Vandeborght, Lien Ringoot & Caroline Gentens
2024
System administrator
Management of the QLVL research server
2023-present
Webmaster
Management of the Department of Linguistics website
2023-present
Chairman of the departmental soup lobby
Organisation of the weekly soup service at the Linguistics department
2023-present
ABAP representative
Member of the ABAP council, which represents those employed under a temporary contract at the faculty board. I was responsible for the teambuilding in 2023.
2023-present
Quizmaster
Writer and host of the yearly departmental quiz
With Thomas Van Hoey
2023-present