Academic Training

July 2009 - July 2010
Lexicographic training, INL (Institute for Dutch Lexicology), Leiden

September 2007 - present
Ph.D. project (lexical semantics/cross-linguistic semantics, projectname: Logical metonymy in the direct object), ACLC (Dutch Linguistics), University of Amsterdam (UvA)

February 2007 - July 2007
Research assistent in the NWO-project on animacy, University of Nijmegen (RU)

October 2006 - December 2006
Internship neologism analysis, Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL) (ANW-department), Leiden

September 2001 - Mai 2007
MA Philosophy cum laude (Philosophy of Language), University of Nijmegen (RU) [MA-thesis: Het defaultkarakter vanschaalimplicaturen ('The default character of scalarimplicatures')]
BA Philosophy (Logic),  University of Nijmegen (RU)

September 2000 - August 2006
MA German Language and Culture cum laude (Modern German Linguistics), University of Nijmegen (RU) / Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg [MA-thesis: Form, Funktion und Bedeutung der Emotionen im Chat ('Form, function and meaning of emotions in chats')]
BA German Language and Culture (Modern German Linguistics), University of Nijmegen (RU)

Links

Lexical Semantics (ACLC)

Cross-linguistic Semantics (ACLC)

Instituutvoor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL)

Radboud Universiteit: Animacy/OT

Germanistik in Heidelberg

Graduate courses

LOT courses (http://www.lotschool.nl/):
-  Categories and Concepts (D.Pecher)
-  Polarity Phenomena and the Grammatical Theory of Scalar Implicatures (G.Chierchia)
-  Generating Referring Expressions (K.van Deemter)
-  Corpus-based sociolinguistics. The problem of syntactic variation (S.Grondelaers)
-  Mental spaces and blending in grammar (B.Dancygier)
-  Thelinguistic representation of gradability (J. Doetjes)
-  Rhetorical analysis: the speeches of presidents, ministers, engineers and PhD-students (J. Jong)
-  Computational semantics (C. Unger & J. v. Eijck)
-  Issues in the semantics of modification (L. McNally)
-  Constructions: An integrated approach (A. Verhagen)
-  Linguistic infrastructure and microvariation (H. Bennis)
-  Using language (H. Clark)
-  State-of-the-Art: Present day Syntax (M. de Vries)
-  Introduction to language and speech Technology (J. Odijk)

Workshops, Colloquia & Other
-  Delimiting and defining metonymy from a cognitive linguistic perspective (Workshop, A.Barcelona)
-  Functional Discourse Grammar (Colloquium UvA, P.C.Hengeveld)