2010 - Invited as "eminent scholar" by the Japan Society for the promotion of Science" (JSPS), "Invitational Training Program for Advanced Japanese Research Institutes". Host Institute: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)/ Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).
2007-2008 Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, Wassenaar) of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/ Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen)
Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1958. “Kandidaatsexamen” (BA) Spanish Language and Linguistics, 1985 (University of Amsterdam) and MA in the “History of Spanish” and “minors” in Portuguese and Classical Arabic (University of Amsterdam, 1986, “cum laude”).
Employment
1980 TeacherLatin and Greek (Ir. lely Lyceum, Amsterdam)
1987-1988 Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Grant "Ministerio de Asuntos exteriores/ dirección de intercambios").
1989-1991 Teacher Spanish MEAO/MTRO, "Volksuniversiteiten" 1991-1995 Ph.D. Grant NWO/ “Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen” Department of Middle East Studies and Department of Spanish. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. C.H.M. Versteegh (KUN), Prof. Dr. M.P.A.M. Kerkhof (KUN) and Dr. A. Schippers (UvA). Ph.D. Dissertation: 1995 (KUN). 1991-1998 Assistant Professor Spanish (Language, Literature of the Golden Age, History and Culture, Translation and Language acquisition).
1997-1998 Post-doc researcher University of Nijmegen (TCMO, KUN). Title project: Pedro de Alcalá's grammar of Arabic (1505) and the pioneer grammars of Amerindian Languages). Supervisor: Prof. dr. C.H.M. Versteegh.
1998-2003 Full Professor University of Oslo (UiO) (Spanish Linguistics and linguistic theory) 2003-2007 Assistant Professor/ (ud) University of Amsterdam
2007- .... Associate Professor (uhd; Profesor titular). University of Amsterdam (Spanish Language and Linguistics)
Visiting scholar, guest-lectures:
Göteborg Universitet, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rhode Island College (Providence), Universität Basel, Universität Zürich, CIESAS (Mexico), UNAM (Mexico-Acatlan), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Papers at international conferences:
Alcalá de Henares, Amsterdam, Bahía (Brazil), Bielefeld (Germany), Campinas (Brazil), Hong Kong, Kalamazoo (Michigan, USA), Macau, Madrid, Mérida (Yucatán, México), Murcia, Nijmegen, Paris, Potsdam, Quito, Saint Petersburg (Russia), Rio de Janeiro, London, Salamanca, San José (Costa Rica), Saõ Paulo, Stockholm, Tétouan (Morocco), Valencia, Valladolid, Vigo.
Coordination of research-projects
Coordinator of the project NFR-project: “OsProMil” (Norges Forskningsråd, “Oslo Projecton Missionary Linguistics”). Co-organiser ofinternational conferences in Oslo, São Paulo, Hong Kong/ Macau, Valladolid and Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico), and Tokyo (2003-2009)
Coordinator of the ACLC-project: “Revitalizing older linguistic documentation (with Norval Smith) and the subproject LETERLING (dictionary of grammatical terminology), with Flores Farfan (CIESAS) and Cristina Altman (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
OsProMil
VI International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Tokyo, 16-19 March, 2010
ACLC
Archive
Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic: Diachrony and Synchrony. Amsterdam, 22-25 October, 2007
International Research Environment for missionary Lingustics (TUFS/ Japan)
