Research interests

• The Noun Phrase in English and Dutch (structure, meaning, use)
• Reference and predication, definiteness and specificity
• Possessive constructions (in English, German and Dutch)
• Syntactic alternation
• English pronouns
• Apposition in English
• Information structure
• Linguistic categorization
• Theoretical framework: Functional Discourse Grammar
• Team leader of the FunCog research group

Teaching

• Functional Discourse Grammar
• Cognitive Grammar
• Linguistic Categorization
• Linguistic models and approaches

Key publications

Authored books

• 1992. Reference, predication and (in)definiteness in Functional Grammar. A functional approach to English copular sentences. Doctoral dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
• 2007. The English Noun Phrase: the Nature of Linguistic Classification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Daniel García Velasco (2009), Lingua 119, 136-139.
• Forthc. (with H. Broekhuis) A Modern Grammar of Dutch: Nouns and Noun Phrases, Part 1.

Edited books / Special issues

• 2004. (with B. Aarts, D. Denison & G. Popova) Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• 2009. (with M. van Staden) Interpersonal grammar: a cross-linguistic perspective. Linguistics 47(4) (Special Issue). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Articles

• 2004. Postnominal PP complements and modifiers: a cognitive distinction. English Language and Linguistics 8(2), 323-350.
• 2005. The discourse function of close appositions. Neophilologus 89, 447-467.
• 2007. The grammatical-lexical distinction in Functional Discourse Grammar. Alfa - Revista de Lingüística 51(2) (Special Issue: Advances in Functional Discourse Grammar), 35-56.
• 2008. English prepositions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Functions of Language 15(2), 216-256.
• 2009. Verb-preposition constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar. Lingua 119(8), 1186-1211.
• 2009. The interpersonal level in English. Linguistics 47(4) (Special Issue: Interpersonal grammar: a cross-linguistic perspective), 845-866.
• 2009. (with W. Honselaar) Lexicon and frames in FDG: A treatment of Dutch bekend zijn ‘to be familiar, well known’, behandelen ‘to treat’ and trouwen ‘to marry’, Lingua 119(8), 1212-1241.
• 2009. (with W. Honselaar) A Functional Discourse Grammar account of set nouns in Dutch and its implications for lexicography. International Journal of Lexicography 22(4): 361-397.
• 2011 (with K. Hengeveld) Non-straightforward communication. Journal of Pragmatics 43: 1962-1976.
• 2011. English proforms: an alternative account. English Language and Linguistics 15(2): 303-334
• 2011. Proforms in Functional Discourse Grammar. To appear in Language Sciences (Special Issue).

Book chapters

• 2005. Close appositions. In: C. de Groot and K. Hengeveld (eds), Morphosyntactic expression in Functional Grammar. Functional Grammar Series 27, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 382-417.
• 2005. (with M. Hannay) Non-restrictive apposition in an FDG of English. In: M.Á. Gómez-González & J.L. Mackenzie (eds), Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (Linguistic Insights, 26). Berne: Peter Lang, 159-194.
• 2007. Possessive constructions in English: the proposal's supporters or the supporters of the proposal? In: M. Hannay & G. Steen (eds), Structural-functional studies in English grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 59-82.
• 2008. Reference and Ascription in F(D)G: an inventory of problems and some possible solutions. In: J. Rijkhoff & D. García Velasco (eds), The Noun Phrase in F(D)G. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 181-220.
• 2011. (with W. Honselaar) Lexical stratification? In Hetty Geerdink-Verkoren & Aone van Engelenhoven (eds.), Searching the invariant: Semiotactic explorations into meaning. LINCOM Studies in Semantics 03. Lincom Europe.

CV

• Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1987: MA in English language and literature, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
• 1987: Joint researcher in the research programme "Functional language research: grammar and pragmatics", Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 1987-1988: Teacher of English, Maastricht School of Translation
• 1992: PhD in English Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Title of dissertation: “Reference, predication and (in)definiteness in Functional Grammar”
• 1991-1994: Lecturer in English, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 1993-1998: Teacher of English, Alkwin Kollege, Uithoorn
• 1998-2000: Postdoctoral researcher in the research programme
  “A Modern Grammar of Dutch”, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands
• 2001-2003: Principal researcher in the AHRB research programme “The English Noun Phrase; an empirical study”, Survey of English Usage, University College London
• 2003-2011: Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics. University of Amsterdam; Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
• 2011-: Professor of English Linguistics: Cognition and Variation, University of Vienna.