Johan Rooryck (born 1 July 1961) is a Belgian linguist and a visiting professor at
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...
where he was Professor of French Linguistics between 1993 and 2020.
He is the 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).
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
References
External links
Personal Website*
Syntacticians
Living people
Academic staff of Leiden University
Linguists from Belgium
1961 births
KU Leuven alumni
Morphologists
Linguistics journal editors
Scientists from Leuven
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