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Prof. Dr. Kees Hengeveld | |
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| Born | Pieter Cornelis Hengeveld November 20, 1957 |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
| Website | https://keeshengeveld.nl/ |
Kees Hengeveld (official name: Pieter Cornelis Hengeveld) (born November 20, 1957) is a linguist. He is "the intellectual father"[1] of Functional Discourse Grammar, a typologically based theory of language structure. He is particularly associated with a layered approach to the analysis of pragmatics, semantics, morphosyntax and phonology, in which higher layers have scope over lower ones.
Early life
[edit]Hengeveld was born in Wateringen in the Netherlands. After working for a while as a probation officer in Utrecht, he enrolled in 1982 at the University of Amsterdam in Spanish Language and Literature and in Linguistics, gaining both Master’s degrees in 1986 and then his PhD degree in General Linguistics in 1992, with Simon C. Dik as his doctoral supervisor.
Career
[edit]Hengeveld was Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish at the University of Amsterdam from 1989 to 1996 and then was appointed Full Professor of Theoretical Linguistics there, a position he held till his retirement in 2024. 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[2][3].Dik’s intellectual influence has had a lasting impact on Hengeveld’s work, just as Hengeveld’s thinking was crucial for the development of Dik’s theory. Hengeveld was nominated in 2013 to the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW),[4] in 2014 to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) [5] and in 2019 to the Academia Europaea.[6]
Research
[edit]Hengeveld is a major contributor to linguistic typology, starting with his PhD thesis, published in 1992[7]. From 1990 to 1994 he participated in the European Science Foundation’s EUROTYP project, specializing in the typology of adverbial clauses[8]. He rejects typological studies based on a loose list of comparative concepts in favour of a formalized grammatical model, known from 2004 onwards[9] as Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). The model is designed to provide a language-neutral framework for the purpose of comparing and classifying linguistic structures. One way in which the model[10] is neutral is in being oriented to the discourse act, the smallest information unit in interaction, encompassing all kinds of language, oral, written, and signed. FDG is innovative in adopting a grammatical architecture that leans on interdisciplinary influences from discourse analysis, pragmatics and psycholinguistics. Finally, it is distinguished from other approaches to grammar in implementing throughout all levels of description the principle of layering, first introduced by Hengeveld in 1989.[11]
Among the many research areas in linguistics to which Hengeveld has made vital contributions are adverbs and adverbial clauses, complementation, parts-of-speech, tense-aspect-mood, and transparency. In addition, he is working with Rafael Fischer on a grammar[12] of A’ingae, an endangered language spoken in southern Colombia and northern Ecuador.
Leadership in linguistics
[edit]Hengeveld has supervised well over 40 PhD dissertations in linguistics. Among countless leadership responsibilities, from 2009 to 2014 he was Director of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and from 2008 to 2009 and again from 2019 to 2022 Director of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). He is co-editor of Linguistics,[13] an authoritative textbook on linguistics.
References
[edit]- ^ Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Olbertz, Hella (2013). "Introduction". In Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Olbertz, Hella (eds.). Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. p. 1.
- ^ Dik, Simon C. (1997). Hengeveld, Kees (ed.). The theory of Functional Grammar. Part I: The structure of the clause (2nd, revised ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. xx + 509 pp.
- ^ Dik, Simon C. (1997). Hengeveld, Kees (ed.). The theory of Functional Grammar. Part II: Complex and derived constructions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. xx + 477 pp.
- ^ "Jaarverslag 2013" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "KNAW - Kees Hengeveld".
- ^ "Academy of Europe - Kees Hengeveld".
- ^ Hengeveld, Kees (1992). Non-verbal predication: theory, typology, diachrony. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. xxiv + 321 pp.
- ^ Hengeveld, Kees (1998). "Adverbial clauses in the languages of Europe". In van der Auwera, Johan (ed.). Adverbial constructions in the languages of Europe. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 335–419.
- ^ Hengeveld, Kees (2004). "The architecture of a Functional Discourse Grammar". In Mackenzie, J. Lachlan; Gómez-Gonzáles, María Á. (eds.). A new architecture for Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 1–21.
- ^ Hengeveld, Kees; Mackenzie, J. Lachlan (2008). Functional Discourse Grammar: A typologically-based theory of language structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. xxii + 502 pp.
- ^ Hengeveld, Kees (1989). "Layers and operators in Functional Grammar". Journal of Linguistics. 25 (1): 127–157. doi:10.1017/S0022226700012123.
- ^ Hengeveld, Kees; Fischer, Rafael (in prep.). A grammar of A'ingae.
- ^ Baker, Anne; Hengeveld, Kees, eds. (2012). Linguistics. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.