Benoît Leclercq
Responsabilities
Administrative
2025-Present First-Year Program Coordinator - English BA
2025-Present Member of the ATER recruitment committee - English BA
2025-Present Member of the Parcoursup admissions committee - English BA
2025-Present "Faits de langue" course coordinator (training for the linguistics part of the English ‘PGCE’ exam - 3rd year English BA & MEEF Masters)
2025 Member of the working group on the 2026-2031 course offerings - English BA
Scientific
2024-Present Vice-President Outreach of AFLiCo (French Cognitive Linguistics Association)
2023-Present Member of the editorial board of CogniTextes
Scientific evaluation
Papers
Punctual expertise for the following journals :
- National (Lexis, Syntaxe & Sémantique)
- International (Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Semantics, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, English Language and Linguistics, English Studies, Journal of Linguistics, Languages, Language Variation and Change, Quaderns de Filologia).
Books
Punctual expertise for international publishers:
- Cambridge University Press (series Elements in Construction Grammar)
- Routledge (series New Waves in Pragmatics)
Conferences
Member of the scientific committee of the following events:
- SLE 2026 - Societas Linguistica Europaea (Osnabrück, 26-29 august 2026)
- LLcD 2025 - Language and Languages as the crossroads of Disciplines (Lille, 1-3 sept. 2025)
- SLE 2025 - Societas Linguistica Europaea (Bordeaux, 26-29 august 2025)
- 10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Osnabrück, Sept. 2-3, 2024)
- 9th International Conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association (Lyon, May 15-17, 2024)
- Variation, contact and modal constructions in English (Paris, July 8, 2022).
- Rencontres jeunes chercheurs ED 622 (Paris, 2-3 June 2025, 3-4 June 2024, 5-6 June 2023, 9-10 June 2022)
Events organized
2025 Isomorphism and Optionality in Language – SLE Worpshop
Co-organized with Cameron Morin (Université Paris Cité)
Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux (France). August 26-29.
Workshop Description & Workshop Programme (WS9).
2025 JET AFLiCo "20 ans de Linguistique Cognitive en France" – Workshop
Co-organized with Maarten Lemmens (Université de Lille)
Université de Lille, Lille (France). April 4. https://20ansaflico.sciencesconf.org/
Invited speakers: Prof. Kurt Feyaerts (KU Leuven), Dr. Adeline Terry (Université Lyon 3), Prof. Jean-Rémi Lapaire (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Dr. Mégane Lesuisse (Université Paris 8), Prof. Philippe Monneret (Sorbonne Université), Dr. Sabina Tabacaru (Université Paris 8).
Funding: UMR STL, AFLiCo, Université de Lille.
2024 Retour aux Sources – TransCrit workshop
Co-organized with Juliette Bourdin (Université Paris 8) and Brigitte Félix (Université Paris 8)
Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis (France). November 29. https://transcrit.univ-paris8.fr/9-novembre-2024-Journee-d-etude-TransCrit-Retours-aux-sources
2022 Constructions and Context(s) – International conference
Co-organized with Guillaume Desagulier (Université Paris 8) and Dylan Glynn (Université Paris 8)
Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis (France). November 9. contextes2022.sciencesconf.org
Invited speaker : Prof. Dominique Legallois (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Funding: Université Paris 8 (AAP 2022 – Scientific events), UR TransCrit, IUF (Institut Universitaire de France)
2021 Constructions and Paradigms – Workshop
Co-organized with Dylan Glynn (Université Paris 8)
Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis (France). November 12-13.
2018 Journée Scientifique – Rentrée Doctorale EDSHS
Co-organized with Lina Bendahmane and Fabiola Leone.
Université de Lille, Lille (France). November 30.
2018 DOCTILING 2018 (5th edition of the (linguistics) "PhD work in progress" seminar of the research unit STL)
Co-organized with Jasper Vangaever and Cyril Grandin.
Université Lille 3, Lille (France). June 19.
2017 DOCTILING 2017 (4th edition of the (linguistics) "PhD work in progress" seminar of the research unit STL)
Co-organized with Jasper Vangaever.
Université Lille 3, Lille (France). June 15.