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.

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

Can structural priming work against language change? Evidence from agent-based simulations

Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde & Dirk Pijpops

Linguists day of the Linguistic Society of Belgium (LSB) 2026, Louvain-la-Neuve

Can structural priming cause or inhibit language change? An agent-based model

Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde & Dirk Pijpops

11th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Bielefeld

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

More than the sum of its parts: investigating individual variation through elastic net regression

Anthe Sevenants & Julie Nijs

CogLing Days 2024, Antwerpen

Heeft scheidbaarheid betekenis? Nederlandse (on)scheidbare werkwoorden onder een computationele loep

Ann-Sophie Vrielynck & Anthe Sevenants

CogLing Days 2024, Antwerp

"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

English pronunciation (BA)

With Lize Vandeborght

Thesis supervision

Exploratory research on Dutch verb clusters using a transformer model

With Tim Van de Cruys

Analysing sentiment in the 2022 Dutch canon survey responses

Leander Huysman

With Freek Van de Velde & Lieke van Deinsen

Education services

Software programmer: Spanish proficiency exercises platform

With Katleen Van den Steen & Dirk Speelman

Blended learning assistant: Information literacy and plagiarism

With Lieve De Wachter

Blended learning assistant: English proficiency (BA),

With Manon Buysse, Lize Vandeborght & Sofie De Smyter

Academic services

Management of the organisation and organisation of the LSB conference

With Lobke Ghesquière (president)

Management of the QLVL website

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

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, Kaat Vanden Abeele & Jonathan Hoebeke

System administrator

Management of the QLVL research server

Management of the Department of Linguistics website

Chairman of the departmental soup lobby

Organisation of the weekly soup service at the Linguistics department

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.

Writer and host of the yearly departmental quiz

With Thomas Van Hoey