Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathilde Eveline Keizer
Mathilde Eveline Keizer

Consultation hours: Office hour:
Online by appointment

Summer term 2024
128141 FS FS Research Seminar I / II - English Adjectives: meaning, use, position
Summer term 2023
128141 FS FS Research Seminar I / II - The English Noun Phrase
Keizer, M. E., & Ten Wolde, E. G. (2024). Of Birds of Prey and Men of Honour: Head-Classifier Constructions in English. In L. Gardelle, E. Mignot, & J. Neveux (Eds.), Nouns and the Morphosyntax/Semantics Interface (pp. 181-208). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44561-3


Klumm, M., Keizer, M. E., & Fetzer, A. (Eds.) (2023). Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains. (1 ed.) Benjamins.

Keizer, M. E. (2023). Enation and agnation in multi-level models: The case for Functional Discourse Grammar. In Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectives (pp. 267-298). Benjamins. Studies in Language Companion Series Vol. 230

Keizer, M. E. (2023). The function and use of NP-external sort/kind of: the case of sort/kind of DEF NP. In W. Mihatsch , I. Hennecke, A. Kisiel, A. Kolyaseva, K. Davidse, & L. Brems (Eds.), Type Noun Constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance Languages: Semantics and pragmatics on the move (pp. 181-209). De Gruyter Mouton. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs Vol. 352

Keizer, M. E. (2023). Word classes and gradience. In E. van Lier (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes (pp. 178-195). Oxford University Press.



Sommerer, L., & Keizer, M. E. (Eds.) (2022). English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current Issues. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Studies in Language Companion Series


Keizer, M. E., & Sommerer, L. (2022). Major trends in research on the English NP. In L. Sommerer, & E. Keizer (Eds.), English Noun Phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective: current issues (pp. 2-23). John Benjamins Publishing Company. Studies in Language Companion Series

Schwaiger, T., Ten Wolde, E. G., & Keizer, M. E. (Eds.) (2022). Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar. (1 ed.) De Gruyter. Functions of Language

Keizer, M. E. (2022). Premodification in the X-is construction: fact and point. In L. Sommerer, & E. Keizer (Eds.), English Noun Phrases from a functional-cognitive perspective: current issues (pp. 235-276). John Benjamins Publishing Company. Studies in Language Companion Series Vol. 221

Keizer, M. E. (2021). Inter-level mismatches in English coordinated partitives. In L. Contreras-García, & D. García Velasco (Eds.), Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar: Theory and applications (pp. 337-368). De Gruyter Mouton. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs Vol. 354





Keizer, M. E. (2020). The semantics, syntax and prosody of adverbs in English: An FDG perspective. In A. Haselow, & G. Kaltenböck (Eds.), Grammar and Cognition : Dualistic Models of Language Structure and Language Processing (pp. 191-231). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Keizer, M. E. (2019). Noun Phrases. In B. Aarts, J. Bowie, & G. Popova (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar (pp. 335-357). Oxford University Press.

Research interests

The Noun Phrase in English and Dutch (structure, meaning, use)
Possessive constructions (in English, German and Dutch)
Reference and predication, definiteness and specificity
Syntactic alternation
English pronouns
Apposition in English
Information structure
Linguistic categorization
Semi-fixed constructions
English adverbs
The lexical-grammatical distinction

Theoretical framework: Functional Discourse Grammar
Team leader of the FunCog research group

Teaching

Functional Discourse Grammar
Cognitive Grammar
Linguistic Categorization
Linguistic models and approaches
The English Noun Phrase
English idioms
English adjectives
Fuzzy Grammar

CV

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

Actually: Function, position, prosody

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker) & Zlatan Kojadinovic (Invited speaker)

23 Jan 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Enation and agnation in multi-level models: The case for Functional Discourse Grammar

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

17 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Actually: function, position, prosody

Zlatan Kojadinovic (Speaker) & Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

28 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Modifier-numeral word order in the English NP: an FDG analysis

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

4 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Idiom creativity in FDG: tendencies and constraints.

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

3 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Insubordinate if-clauses in FDG: From modification to independence

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker) & Gunther Kaltenböck (Invited speaker)

29 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Insubordinate if-clauses in FDG:From modification to independence

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker) & Gunther Kaltenböck (Invited speaker)

8 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker), Matthias Klumm (Speaker) & Anita Fetzer (Speaker)

30 Aug 20213 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Adjective-numeral word order in the English NP: an FDG analysis

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

12 Jul 202114 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Insubordinate if-clauses in FDG: From modification to independence

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker) & Gunther Kaltenböck (Speaker)

12 Jul 202114 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Extra-clausal constituents in FDG: Function and placement

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker) & Riccardo Giomi (Speaker)

12 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Semantics in grammatical models: the case of Functional Discourse Grammar (online course)

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

27 Jan 202110 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Extra-clausal constituents in Functional Discourse Grammar

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker) & Riccardo Giomi (Invited speaker)

7 Dec 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Placement at the layer of the Linguistic Expression

Riccardo Giomi (Speaker) & Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

1 Jul 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Premodification in the point-is construction

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

25 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


High-level mismatches in English partitive constructions

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

12 Sep 201913 Sep 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Premodification in the point-is construction

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

12 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Stance adverbs in Functional Discourse Grammar

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

23 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Truth-conditionality and restrictiveness in Functional Discourse Grammar.

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

26 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Stance adverbs in Functional Discourse Grammar

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

17 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The function and use of NP-external sort/kind-of: the case of sort/kind of DEF.DET.

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Keynote speaker)

18 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Syntactic, semantic and prosodic integration: a Functional Discourse Grammar analysis of 'frankly' and 'cleverly'

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

2 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Modal modifiers in FDG

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

26 Jun 201727 Jun 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Interpersonal adverbs in Functional Discourse Grammar: the case of frankly

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

9 Dec 2016

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Interpersonal adverbial modifiers in FDG: function, distribution, analysis

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

2 Sep 2016

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The (DET) (ADJ) fact is (that) construction in English and Dutch: a Functional Discourse Grammar account

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

28 Jan 2016

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The distinction between lexical and syntactic derivation in FDG: challenges and implications

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

11 Sep 201512 Sep 2015

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English partitives in Functional Discourse Grammar: types and constraints

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

2 Sep 20155 Sep 2015

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Pre- en post-nominale bezitsconstructies in het Nederlands (Engels and Duits)

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

3 Mar 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The (DET) (ADJ) fact is construction in English and Dutch: a Functional Discourse Grammar account.

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

3 Mar 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Structured Substance: The case of the Binominal Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

27 Feb 201528 Feb 2015

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English partitives in Functional Discourse Grammar: a unified account

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

17 Sep 2014

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The (DET) (ADJ) fact is construction in English and Dutch: a Functional Discourse Grammar account.

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

27 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The (DET) (ADJ) fact is construction in English and Dutch: a Functional Discourse Grammar account

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

5 Jul 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The X is construction in English: an FDG account

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

22 Feb 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


We teachers, you fools. Pronoun + N(P) constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

5 Nov 2013

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Idiomatic expressions in Functional Discourse Grammar

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

5 Sep 2013

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The X is construction in English: an FDG account.

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

7 Jun 2012

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Werkse, Een schat van en Het punt is (is): tussen lexicon en grammatica

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

17 Feb 2012

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Context and cognition in Functional Discourse Grammar: what, where and why?

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Speaker)

8 Sep 2011

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The lexical-grammatical distinction in FDG

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

24 Aug 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Variation and Cognition: syntactic alternations in English.

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

10 Aug 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The prenominal possessive in English, German and Dutch: an FDG account Invited speaker to the Workshop on genitive variation

Mathilde Eveline Keizer (Invited speaker)

17 Jul 2011

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evelien.keizer@univie.ac.at