Curriculum vitae

 

 

Name: Henk J. Verkuyl

Date of Birth: June 4, 1938

 

Education

Undergraduate: Dutch Language and Literature, General Linguistics, Logic. University of Amsterdam, 1960 - 1967.

Dissertation: On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects. Utrecht October 15, 1971.

 

Publications

See: List of Publications

 

Supervision

See: List of Supervised Dissertations

 

Academic Positions

1967 - 1976: Assistant Professor of Dutch Linguistics, University of Amsterdam

1976 - 1979: Lecturer of Dutch Linguistics, University of Utrecht

1979 - 1987: Professor of Dutch Linguistics, University of Utrecht

1986: Fullbright Scholarship University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

1987 - 2003: Professor of Linguistics, in particular Semantics and Dutch Linguistics, University of Utrecht

1987 - 2003: Member of the UILOTS (the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS)

2003 - : Emeritus Professor, Member of the Research Institute UILOTS

 

Academic duties

1978 - 2003: Chairing the Dutch department or the faculty and/or research programs in Utrecht

1976 - 1981: Secretary of the National (ZWO)-Foundation for Linguistic Research

1989 - 1991: Secretary of the Ministerial Commission "Kleine Letteren" (Small Letters)

2002 - 2005: Member of the NWO SPINOZA-committee

1987 - 2013: Chairman of the Scientific Board of the UILOTS

1995 - 2018: Chairman of the Scientific Board of Nederlandse Taalkunde

2001 - : Chairman of the Scientific Board of Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek at the INL (Institute of Dutch Lexicology)

2003 - 2011: Member of the Werkgroep Spelling of the Nederlandse Taalunie

 

Courses (tense and aspect, generalized quantification, lexical semantics)

1989: Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia, 2 weeks

1990-1999: European Summer School for Logic, Language and Information, Groningen (1990), Louvain (1991), Barcelona (1995), Utrecht (1999)

1993-1996: LOT-courses Tilburg (1993), Utrecht (1996)

1995: Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia, 1 week

1997: Université Paris VII (Jussieu), 6 weeks

2002: University of St. Petersburg, 1 week

2009: University of Utrecht UILOTS, 1 week

2010: University of Budapest, 1 week

 

Lectures

1976 - : Amherst, MIT, Austin, UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley, CUNY, Hull, London, Manchester, Stirling, Colchester, Trondheim, Røros, Tuebingen, Duesseldorf, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Oldenburg, Brussel, Louvain, Anvers, Gand, Lille, Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bologna, Trento, Cortona, Sofia, Plovdiv, Warschau, Karpacz, Budapest, Batumi (Georgia), among other places

 

13/10/2000:

Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap-prijs 2000 voor het boek Semantiek. Het verband tussen taal en werkelijkheid “ voor de beste publicatie op het gebied van de popularisering van de taalwetenschap.”

 

 

 

30/4/2004: Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw