Kees Hengeveld

Pieter Cornelis Hengeveld (born November 20, 1957 of which he is considered "the intellectual father". He is a co-editor of the textbook Linguistics.

Early life and education Hengeveld was born in Wateringen in the Netherlands. After working as a probation officer in Utrecht from 1980 to 1982, he enrolled at the University of Amsterdam in Spanish Language and Literature and in Linguistics, gaining both master's degrees in 1986 cum laude. In 1992 he gained a PhD degree (cum laude) with the thesis Non-verbal predication, with Simon C. Dik as his doctoral supervisor.

Career Hengeveld was research assistant at the department of general linguistics from 1986 to 1988 at the University of Amsterdam, and then lecturer in Spanish linguistics at the Department of Spanish from 1989 to 1996. In 1996 he was appointed full professor of theoretical linguistics, Hengeveld succeeded Simon C. Dik (1940–1995), whose final work, a two-volume presentation of Functional Grammar, he edited and saw through to posthumous publication in 1997.

In 2013, a festschrift was published

Honors Hengeveld was accepted in 2013 to the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), in 2014 to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and in 2019 to the Academia Europaea.

Organizational work From 2009 to 2014 Hengeveld was director of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication. and Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. He was consulting editor for Studies in Language until 2013.

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