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

Primary advisor PhD theses

• Corentin Bourdeau, Project: Topic-focus structures in Wolof.
• Thijs Trompenaars (2021) Bringing stories to life. Animacy in narrative and processing. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Theresa Redl (2021) Masculine generic pronouns. Investigating the processing of an unintended gender cue. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Martine Zwets (2014) Locating the difference. A comparison between Dutch pointing gestures and pointing signs in Sign Language of the Netherlands. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Kees de Schepper (2013) You and me against the world? First, second and third person in the world's languages. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Geertje van Bergen (2011) Who's first and what's next. Animacy and word order variation in Dutch language production. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Sander Lestrade (2010) The space of case. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Lotte Hogeweg (2009) Word in process. On the interpretation, acquisition, and production of words. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Ning Yang (2008) The indefinite object in Mandarin Chinese: its marking, interpretation and acquisition. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
• Peter de Swart (2007) Cross-linguistic variation in object marking. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Secondary advisor PhD theses

• Machteld de Vos, Project: Spread the new(s)! Understanding standardization of Dutch through 17th-century newspapers (Primary advisor: Nicoline van der Sijs)
• Cas Coopmans, Project: The cognitive neuroscience of syntactic structure building (Primary advisor: Peter Hagoort)
• Gert-Jan Schoenmakers, Project: Adverb type and direct object scrambling (Primary advisor: Peter de Swart)
• Marten van der Meulen, Project: Change your language! Effects of prescriptivism on the grammar of Dutch in the post-standardization period (1805 - present) (Primary advisor: Nicoline van der Sijs)
• Ruti Vardi (2020) Love and commitment. The sociocultural conceptualisation of 'hb 'love' in Biblical Hebrew. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen. (Primary advisor: Ellen van Wolde)
• Puck Wildschut (2018) Mysterious machinery. Unraveling the engaged narrative experience of Nabokov's Lolita(1955) and Pale Fire (1962). PhD dissertation, Radboud University NIjmegen. (Primary advisor: Sophie Levie)
• Pablo Irizarri van Suchtelen (2016) Spanish as a heritage language in the Netherlands. A cognitive linguistic explanation. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen. (Primary advisor: Pieter Muysken)