Ton van der Wouden, linguist

Welcome to my website www.tonvanderwouden.nl. This site is perpetually under construction.

Ton van der Wouden
Meertens Instituut
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam
PO BOX 10855, 1001 EW Amsterdam
The Netherlands

E-mail: ton.van.der.wouden at meertens.knaw.nl

Current affiliations:

Senior researcher at the Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam.

Before that, I was, among other things,

acting professor of Dutch linguistics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster;
acting professor of Dutch linguistics at Universität Leipzig;
principal investigator of the VIDI-project "Dutch as a construction language" at Leiden University (see, e.g., Mika Poss's dissertation Under Construction: Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Extended Lexical Units, defended successfully at Leiden University on May 11th, 2010);
teacher at Roosevelt Academy;
involved in the syntactic annotation of the Spoken Dutch Corpus;
principal investigator of the VNC project "Partikelgebruik in Nederland en Vlaanderen";
researcher within the projects "Reflections of Logical Patterns in Language. Structure and Language Use" (Groningen), "Eurotra" (Utrecht) and "CELEX" (Nijmegen/Leiden) (data available via webcelex).

Main research interest: The grammar of Dutch

More specifically:

Particles
Morphology
The division of labor between grammar and lexicon
Negation and polarity
Spoken language phenomena
Linguistic differences between The Netherlands and Flanders

Links:

left: Olga and Machteld, Summer 2010, centre: Olga and Machteld, January 2001, right: Maresingel, the street in Leiden where we live (photo courtesy wikimedia).