Head of the Centre for General Linguistics
- Distinguished professor of Vilnius University, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic
- awarded the Gold Cross of Merit, Republic of Poland (2014)
- Honorary doctor of the University of Latvia (2014)
Domains of research:
- General Linguistics
- Historical syntax of Baltic and Slavonic
- Morphosyntax of the contemporary Baltic and Slavonic languages, especially verbal morphosyntax
- Grammatical semantics
Recent research topics:
- evidentiality, quotativity and achoic use
- non-directive imperatives
- implicatives
- voice grams in Baltic and Slavonic
- verbal constructional idioms
Teaching:
- Linguistic typology
- Introduction to general linguistics
- Currents in contemporary linguistic theory
- Syntax
- Theory of grammar
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs, edited volumes
- Argument Realization in Baltic (edited by A. Holvoet and N. Nau), Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, 500 p.
- Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic (edited by A. Holvoet and N. Nau), Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015, 402 p.
- Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic (edited by A. Holvoet and N. Nau), 2014, 370 p. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Holvoet Axel. Vispārīgās sintakses pamati. Riga : Latviešu valodas aģentūra, 2012. 142 p.
- Mood and Modality in Baltic. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2007, 240 p.
- Bendrosios sintaksės pagrindai. Vilniaus universitetas & Asociacija „Academia Salensis“, 2009, 184 p.
Articles
- Sources for historical imperatives. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 50.1, 2018, 36–51.
- Markierung fremder Rede: Typen und Funktionen. In Virginija Masiulionytė & Skaistė Volungevičienė, eds., Fremde und eigene Sprachen. Akten des 51. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Vilnius 2016. Berlin etc.: Peter Lang, 13–25.
- Epistemic modality, evidentiality, quotativity and echoic use. In Zlatka Guentchéva, ed., Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018, 242–258.
- The syntax of Baltic. In: Jared Klein, Brian Joseph & Matthias Fritz, eds., Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Vol. 3. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2018, 1668-1681.
- The syntax of Balto-Slavic. In: Jared Klein, Brian Joseph & Matthias Fritz, eds., Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Vol. 3. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2018, 2000-2011.
- On so-called converse reflexives in Slavic and Baltic, Zeitschrift für Slawistik 63(3): 373–394.
- Antipassive reflexives in Latvian. Baltic Linguistics 8, 2017, 57–96.
- Reflexive permissives and the middle voice. Baltic Linguistics 7, 2016, 9–52.
- Argument marking in Baltic and Slavonic pain-verb constructions. In: Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau, eds., Argument Realization in Baltic, Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016, 83–106.
- [with Nicole Nau] Variation in argument realization in Baltic: An overview. In: Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau, eds., Argument Realization in Baltic, Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016, 1–34.
- Semantic functions of complementisers in Baltic. In: Kasper Boye & Petar Kehayov, eds., Complementizer Semantics in European Languages, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016, 225–263.
- Control alternations. Control properties in infinitival goal adjuncts in Baltic. Baltic Linguistics 6, 2015, 45–77.
- Lithuanian inflection. In: Matthew Baerman, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Inflection, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 447–464.
- [with Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz] The middle voice in Polish: An attempt at rehabilitation. Studies in Polish Linguistics 10.3, 2015, 105–124.
- Axel Holvoet. Latvian passives – personal, impersonal and evidential in: Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic 2, 2015, p. 367–394.
- Axel Holvoet, Agnieszka Rembiałkowska & Marta Grzybowska. Middle voice reflexives and argument structure in Baltic in: Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic 2, 2015, p. 181–209.
- [with Nicole Nau] Voice in Baltic: An overview. In: Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau, eds., Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015, 1–36
- Axel Holvoet. Extended uses of morphological causatives in Latvian in: Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic 2, 2015, p. 147–177.
- Non-canonical subjects in Latvian: an obliqueness-based approach. In: Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet & Björn Wiemer, eds., Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015, 299–323.
- Non-canonical subjects in Latvian: an obliqueness-based approach. In: Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet & Björn Wiemer, eds., Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015, 299–323.
- Holvoet, Axel, [with Peter Arkadiev and Björn Wiemer], Baltic linguistics: state of the art. In Peter Arkadiev, Björn Wiemer, Axel Holvoet, eds., Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1–109.
- Holvoet, Axel, Non-canonical subjects in Latvian: an obliqueness–based approach. In Peter Arkadiev, Björn Wiemer, Axel Holvoet, eds., Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 299–323.
- Axel Holvoet & Marta Grzybowska. Non-canonical grammatical relations in a modal construction: the Latvian debitive in: Grammatical Relations and non Canonical Encoding. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (edited by Axel Holvoet), 2014.
- Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau. Marking strategies and grammatical relations in the Baltic: an introduction in: Grammatical Relations and non Canonical Encoding. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau), 2014.
- [with Birute Sprauniene] Ad hoc taxonomies: A Baltic parallel to the Scandinavian absolute positives. In Ērika Sausverde & Ieva Steponavičiūtė, eds., Fun and Puzzles in Modern Scandinavian Studies. Vilnius: Vilnius University, 2014, 47–62.
- Phasal and proximative complementation: Lithuanian baigti. Baltic Linguistics 5, 2014, 81–122.
- Obliqueness, quasi-subjects and transitivity in Baltic and Slavonic. In: Ilja A. Seržant & Leonid Kulikov, eds. The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects (SLCS 140), Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2013, 257–282.
- [with Birute Sprauniene] Towards a semantic map for definite adjectives in Baltic, Baltic Linguistics 3, 2012, 65–99
- Vocative agreement in Latvian and the principle of morphology-free syntax, Baltic Linguistics 3, 2012, 43–64
- Polish mieć and the semantic map of interpretive deontics. Zeitschrift für Slawistik 57.2, 2012, 128-145
- Beyond external possession. Genitive and dative with relational nouns in Latvian. Baltic Linguistics 2, 2011, 79–107.
- The Baltic languages. In: Bernd Kortmann and Johan van der Auwera, The Languages and Linguistics of Europe (= The World of Linguistics, ed. Hans Henrich Hock, ed., vol. 1), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011, 3–30.
- [with Elena Konickaja]. Interpretive deontics. A definition and a semantic map based on Slavonic and Baltic data. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 43.1, 2011, 1–20.