Feyaerts, Kurt

Kurt Feyaerts was born in 1968 and studied linguistics in Leuven and Munster. He received his Ph.D. in 1997. He is Associate Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven & Kulak) and teaches courses in German linguistics and theory of metaphor. His main research interests are in cognitive semantics, patterns of metaphoric and metonymic conceptualisation, blending theory, phraseology. He is co-editor with Lieven Boeve of a book on Metaphor & God-talk (1999, this series).