1997-1998: Honorary Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation (BAEF)

1997-2000: Outstanding Scholar Award, University of Connecticut

1999: Bloch Fellowship Alternate (Linguistic Society of America)

2000: Nominated for a Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University

2001: Edward V. Gant Scholarship (outstanding graduate student achievement), University of Connecticut

2002: Listed as 'Outstanding Teacher' on the University List of Teachers ranked as Excellent by their Students (based on data collected Fall 2001), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2006: Roslyn Abramson Award (recognition of excellence and sensitivity in teaching undergraduates)

2006: NWO-Fellow, Leiden University, The Netherlands

2007: Nominated for a Times Higher Education Supplement award (category: Young academic author of the year, for Linguistic Minimalism (2006, Oxford University Press))

2007: Nominated for the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award (Harvard University)

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