Introduction: the crosslinguistic application of grammatical categories in the history of linguistics

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of Latin Literature (KU Leuven, Belgium), where he is conducting research on code-switching in Neo-Latin texts from the early modern Low Countries, with special references to the importance of Ancient Greek. Van Rooy previously was PhD fellow (2013-17) and postdoctoral fellow (2017-21) of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) at KU Leuven, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Oslo (2021-22). He holds degrees in Classics, General Linguistics, and Early Modern History from KU Leuven, UCLouvain, and Ghent University, and specialises in the premodern history of linguistics and Greek studies in the Neo-Latin world of early modernity. In 2020, he published two books: Language or Dialect? The History of a Conceptual Pair (Oxford University Press) and Greece's Labyrinth of Language: A Study in the Early Modern Discovery of Dialect Diversity (Language Science Press). He is currently supervising the development of DaLeT, the Database of the Leuven Trilingue, and finalising a volume for the series Brill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period.