sevanden at jyu dot fi

About

My name is Sébastien Vandenitte. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Sign Language Centre of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

I hold BA and MA degrees from Université Libre de Bruxelles and a PhD degree from the LSFB-Lab of the Université de Namur, Belgium.

Research interests

• (Belgian) French
• LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language)
• comparative linguistics and semiotics
• gesture and multimodality
• depiction & iconicity
• the building & use of comparable corpora
• multi-method approaches to language as a phenomenon