Positions and projects || Supervision (PhD) || Supervision (MA) || PhD committees

Academic positions

• Since December 2007: Professor of Theoretical Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen
• January 2002 - December 2007: Associate professor syntax and semantics, Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen
• June 2001 - January 2002: Assistant professor syntax and semantics, Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen
• January 2001 - June 2001: Assistant professor semantics, Department of General Linguistics, Leiden University
• October - December 2000: Guest professor Cognitive Science, Universitat Potsdam
• March 1997 - November 2000: Research fellow (post-doc), Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS , Utrecht University.
• August 1992 - March 1997: Research fellow (post-doc), Department of General Linguistics, BCN, University of Groningen.
• March 1988 - March 1992: Research trainee (PhD-student), Department of General Linguistics, University of Groningen. PhD: June 1992.

Additional functions

• Since January 2015 Editor of Journal of Linguistics, journal of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Cambridge University Press.
• January 2005 - January 2014 Chair of the VAWO, Scientists' Union of the Netherlands

Research projects, externally funded by NWO

• 2021 - 2026: Processing pronouns of address
• 2008 - 2012: Between me and you: local pronouns in language
• 2007 - 2009: The interplay between the speaker's and the hearer's perspective
• 2006 - 2010: Animacy
• 2005 - 2008: Incremental interpretation of case and prominence
• 2002 - 2007: Case Cross-linguistically
• 2002 - 2006: Conflicts in Interpretation

Education

• 1992 PhD in Linguistics, University of Groningen
• 1987 MA in Dutch Language and Literature (cum laude), University of Groningen