Florent Perek
University of Birmingham, UK
Florent Perek holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Freiburg (Germany), under a co-tutelle (French joint PhD programme) with the University of Lille (France). He has occupied postdoc positions at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and Princeton University. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. Florent is a cognitive linguist, a quantitative corpus linguist, and a construction grammarian. His main research interests lie in the study of grammar from a cognitive and corpus linguistic perspective. He focuses in particular on how syntactic constructions are mentally represented, how they are learned, and how they change over time.