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Johan Rooryck

Johan Rooryck is a Belgian linguist and a visiting professor at Leiden University where he was Professor of French Linguistics between 1993 and 2020. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Glossa and the former executive editor of Lingua (1999-2015). Rooryck is known for his works on generative grammar. He is the executive director of cOAlition S and is a recipient of Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (2011/2012).

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Johan Rooryck
Born (1961-07-01) 1 July 1961
Leuven
AwardsDistinguished Lorentz Fellowship (2011/2012)
Academic background
EducationKU Leuven (BA, MA, PhD)
ThesisControl verbs: an analysis of the interpretation of the non-expressed subject of infinitival constructions in French (1987)
Academic work
Disciplinelinguistics
Sub-discipline
syntax, morphology
InstitutionsLeiden University
Websitewww.rooryck.org

Johan Rooryck (born 1 July 1961) is a Belgian linguist and a visiting professor at Leiden University where he was Professor of French Linguistics between 1993 and 2020. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Glossa and the former executive editor of Lingua (1999-2015). Rooryck is known for his works on generative grammar.123 He is the executive director of cOAlition S4 and is a recipient of Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (2011/2012).5

Books

  • Dissolving Binding Theory, with Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Oxford University Press 2011
  • Configurations of Sentential Complementation: Perspectives from Romance Languages, Routledge 2011
  • Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999, edited with Yves D’Hulst and Jan Schroten, John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001
  • Quitte ou Double Sens: Articles sur l'Ambiguïté offerts à Ronald Landheer, edited with Paul J. Smith and Paul Bogaards, Brill Rodopi 2001
  • Phrase Structure and the Lexicon, edited with Laurie Zaring, Springer 1996
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