Dirk Noël

Dirk Noël is a linguist who studied English, Dutch and general linguistics at the University of Antwerp and holds a PhD in English linguistics from Ghent University. Prior to coming to HKU in 2006, he held teaching and research posts at the universities of Antwerp, Ghent and Leuven. His past research has included work on clausal complement constructions involving cognition, utterance and perception verbs, verb valency in a contrastive (English/French/Dutch) perspective, bilingual lexicography, textual coherence, and – the longest ago – the language of radio news bulletins. More recently, for a dozen or so years now, he has been engaged in theoretical and descriptive work in the field of diachronic construction grammar.

Education

• PhD Ghent University (2002 — 2003)
• University of Nottingham (1986 — 1988)
• Koninklijk Atheneum Kapellen (1969 — 1981)

Companies

• associate professor in the School of English The University of Hong Kong (2012)
• Head, School of English The University of Hong Kong (2013 — 2016)
• assistant professor in the School of English The University of Hong Kong (2006 — 2012)
• researcher and visiting lecturer in the Linguistics department KU Leuven (2005 — 2006)
• researcher in the Contrastive Grammar research group (Contragram) Ghent University (1995 — 2005)
• researcher at ICTL (Linguapolis) University of Antwerp (1994 — 1994)
• assistant lecturer of English University of Antwerp (Department of Translation and Interpreting, formerly HIVT) (1989 — 1994)
• assistant lecturer of English for business University of Antwerp (1988 — 1989)