Kees Hengeveld

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Kees Hengeveld
Born
Pieter Cornelis Hengeveld

(1957-11-20) November 20, 1957 (age 67)
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Website https://keeshengeveld.nl/

Pieter Cornelis Hengeveld [1] (born November 20, 1957 [2] ) is a Dutch linguist, professor emeritus of theoretical linguistics at the University of Amsterdam.

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He is particularly associated with a layered approach to the analysis of pragmatics, semantics, morphosyntax and phonology, which was incorporated into Simon C. Dik's Functional Grammar and which Hengeveld developed into Functional Discourse Grammar, [3] of which he is considered "the intellectual father". [4] He is a co-editor of the textbook Linguistics. [5]

Early life and education

Hengeveld was born in Wateringen in the Netherlands. [6] After working as a probation officer in Utrecht 1980-1982, [2] he enrolled at the University of Amsterdam in Spanish Language and Literature and in Linguistics, gaining both master's degrees in 1986 cum laude . In 1992 he gained a PhD degree (cum laude) with the thesis Non-verbal predication, with Simon C. Dik as his doctoral supervisor. [1] [7]

Career

Hengeveld was research assistant at the department of general linguistics 1986-1988 at the University of Amsterdam, and then lecturer in Spanish linguistics at the Department of Spanish from 1989 to 1996. In 1996 he was appointed full professor of theoretical linguistics, [1] a position he held until his retirement in 2024. [8] Hengeveld succeeded Simon C. Dik (1940-1995), whose final work, a two-volume presentation of Functional Grammar, he edited and saw through to posthumous publication in 1997. [3] [9]

In 2013, a festschrift was published [4] on the occasion of Hengeveld's 55th birthday. In 2024, a journal issue of Linguistics in Amsterdam was published on the occasion of his retirement. [10]

Honors

Hengeveld was accepted in 2013 to the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), [11] in 2014 to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) [12] and in 2019 to the Academia Europaea. [13]

Organizational work

From 2009 to 2014 Hengeveld was director of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication. [2] He was chair of the board of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) from 2008 to 2009 [1] and director from 2019 to 2022. [2] He was president of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands in 1995-1996. [1]

He is a member of the editorial boards of Functions of Language [14] and Acta Linguistica Hafniensia . [15] He was consulting editor for Studies in Language until 2013. [2]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Academy of Europe: CV". Academy of Europe. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  3. 1 2 Mackenzie, J. Lachlan (2016). "A first history of Functional Grammar". Studies in the History of the Language Sciences. 126: 233–246. doi:10.1075/sihols.126.18mac. ISBN   978-90-272-4617-2.
  4. 1 2 Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Olbertz, Hella (2013). "Introduction". In Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Olbertz, Hella (eds.). Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. p. 1. ISBN   978-90-272-7158-7.
  5. ↑ Baker, Anne; Hengeveld, Kees, eds. (2012). Linguistics. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
  6. ↑ "Album Academicum". Album Academicum. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  7. ↑ Kees Hengeveld (1 August 1992). Non-Verbal Predication: Theory, Typology, Diachrony. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110883282. ISBN   978-3-11-088328-2. OL   1719787M. Wikidata   Q124316709.
  8. ↑ "Gelaagdheid in taal". Universiteit van Amsterdam (in Dutch). 2024-11-21. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  9. ↑ Dik, Simon C. (1997). Hengeveld, Kees (ed.). The theory of Functional Grammar (2nd, revised ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  10. ↑ Keizer, Evelien; Olbertz, Hella (2024). "A splendid series of squibs: Preface". Linguistics in Amsterdam. 15 (2): ii. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "Jaarverslag 2013" (PDF).
  12. ↑ "KNAW - Kees Hengeveld".
  13. ↑ "Academy of Europe - Kees Hengeveld".
  14. ↑ "Functions of Language". John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2024-08-02. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  15. ↑ "Learn about Acta Linguistica Hafniensia". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2024-12-01.

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