Liliane Madeleine Victor Haegeman

Liliane Madeleine Victor Haegeman ARB (born 1 July 1954) is a Belgian professor of linguistics at Ghent University. She received her PhD in English linguistics in 1981 from Ghent University, constituting an introduction to the Principles and Parameters approach of generative linguistics. She is also acknowledged for her contributions to syntactic cartography, including works on the left periphery of Germanic languages, negation and discourse particles, and adverbial clauses. As a native speaker of West Flemish, her research has also touched upon the comparative study of English and West Flemish in terms of the subject position and its relation to the clausal structure.

Honors Haegeman was made a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (ARB) in 1982 (Dutch: Haegeman, L. (2003). Conditional clauses: External and internal syntax. Mind & Language:18 (4), 317–339. DOI: Haegeman, L. (2006). Conditionals, factives and the left periphery. Lingua: 116 (10), 1651–1669. Haegeman, L. (2010) The internal syntax of adverbial clauses. Lingua: 120 (3), 628–648. Haegeman, L., Ángel, JF., and Andrew, R. (2013). Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation. The Linguistics Review: 31(1): 73–150. DOI: Eric, L. and Haegeman, L. (2016). The nanosyntax of spatial deixis. Studia Linguistica'': 72 (2), 362–427.