Eugenius Marius ('Bob') Uhlenbeck (

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(Den Haag), 9 August 1913 –

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, 27 May 2003) was a Dutch

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and

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. He was a professor in Javanese at

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. In 1967 he became member of the

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Family

His brother was George Uhlenbeck, the theoretical physicist, and the linguist C.C. Uhlenbeck was a cousin of his father.

Selected publications

*''Taalwetenschap. Een eerste inleiding''. Uitg. H.L. Smits, Den Haag. *''Beknopte Javaansche grammatica''. Uitg. Balé Poestaka, Batavia, 1941. *''De systematiek der Javaanse pronomina''. Uitg. M. Nijhoff, Den Haag, 1960. *''Aantekeningen bij Tjan Tjoe Siem's vertaling van de lakon Kurupati rabi''. Uitg. M. Nijhoff, Den Haag, 1960. *''A critical survey of studies on the Languages of Java and Madura''. Uitg. M. Nijhoff, Den Haag, 1964. *''Enige beschouwingen over Amerikaanse en Nederlandse linguïstiek''. In: Forum der Letteren 7, 1966, pp. 1–22. *''Critical comments on transformational-generative grammar 1962-1972'', 1973. *''Structurele taalwetenschap''. In: Frieda Balk-Smit Duyzentkunst e.a.: ''Controversen in de taal- en literatuurwetenschap'', 1974, pp. 138–168. *''Nederlandse voorlichting over generatieve grammatica''. In: Forum der Letteren 18, 1977, pp. 167–210. *''Studies in Javanese morphology''. Uitg. M. Nijhoff, 1978. *''Linguistics in America 1924-1974, a detached view''. In: H.M. Hoenigswald (ed.): ''The European background of American linguistics'', 1979.

References

Linguists from the Netherlands Writers from The Hague 1913 births 2003 deaths Leiden University faculty Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the British Academy 20th-century linguists {{Netherlands-linguist-stub