aafke hulk

Aafke Hulk studied French language and literature at the University of Utrecht, where she obtained her doctorate in 1982. During and after completing her doctorate research she worked as an assistent, later associate professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, until her appointment as full professor of French linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. In 1999 she became member of the governing board of NWO for a period of 5 years. In 2002 she left Amsterdam and moved to Utrecht University where she occupied a chair in Romance linguistics. In September 2003 she returned to the University of Amsterdam where she became dean of the faculty of Humanities. From February 2008 untill August 2010, she was guest-researcher at the Meertens institute, as collaborator and supervisor of  an international, NWO funded project on Early successive bilingualism.  

She has always combined her international research with an active participation in management tasks and board memberships of committees and organisations involved with the planning, funding and organisation of academic research (see short cv in Dutch).

Since August 2010, she is rector of NIAS, a research institute of the Dutch Royal Academy in Wassenaar ( www.nias.knaw.nl ). She continues her research at the University of Amsterdam. 

Her main research interests are
-early child bilingualism, in particular cross-linguistic influence and vulnerability
-L1 and L2 acquisition of Romance and Germanic syntax
-interaction between linguistic theory and language acquisition