Focus of research

I am currently working on analyzing the past-tense morphology of Greek spoken by Greek-Canadians from a dialectological and sociolinguistic perspective.

Interests

Computational linguistics; dialectology; variationist sociolinguistics

Education

MA Student, Linguistics, Simon Fraser University

BSc, Computing Science and Linguistics, Simon Fraser University

About

Laurens started his undergraduate studies in computer science, but after taking Introduction to Linguistics (LING 220), he decided to switch degrees and incorporate linguistics more. He completed his BSc in Computer Science and Linguistics at SFU in 2022 and started his MA in Linguistics the same year. He is currently working on analyzing variation in Greek past tense morphology. In his research, Laurens draws on his expertise in both linguistics and computer science to extract and analyze data from large corpora to better understand the patterns of language.

Publications and presentations

May 04, 2024  Presentation of research at the 40th Northwest Linguistics Conference at the University of Washington, titled “Variation in the Active Imperfective Past Stem Suffix for IC2 Verbs in the Greek of Greek-Canadians”.

Structural linguistic characteristics of podcasts as an emerging register of computer-mediated communication. Aminat Babayode, Laurens Bosman, Nicole Chan, et al. 14–15 September 2023, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2023.