Pieter Muysken
Pieter Cornelis Muysken (born April 11, 1950 in Oruro , Bolivia ; † April 6, 2021 ) was a Dutch linguist . He was professor of linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen .
Life
Muysken earned his bachelor's degree in Latin American and Spanish from Yale University in 1972 and his diploma in 1974 from the University of Amsterdam ( Some syntactic aspects of creolization ), with Quechua and Papiamentu as minor subjects. In 1977 he received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam ( Syntactic Developments in the Verb Phrase of Ecuadorian Quechua ). From 1989 he was professor of linguistics and Creole studies in Amsterdam and from 1998 in Leiden , before joining Radboud University in Nijmegen as a professor in 2001.
He dealt with language development in the Andean region (including Bolivia , Quechua), Creole languages in Suriname and language development in the Netherlands itself, in particular the impact of close social contacts on the development of two languages (such as Papiamentu and Turkish on the one hand and Dutch on the other hand due to migration in the Netherlands). Muysken was a senior researcher in the Languages in Contact project at Radboud University.
In 1998 he received the Spinoza Prize and in 1985 the Prince Bernhard Prize. He was a member of the Max Planck Society and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Muysken was an academy professor at KNAW. In 2010 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .
Fonts
- Bilingual Speech: A Typology of Code-mixing. Cambridge University Press 2000.
- with WFH Adelaar: The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge University Press 2004.
- Functional categories. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- with EI Crevels: Lenguas de Bolivia I – IV. Plural Editors, La Paz, 2009 to 2010.
- Contributions of Pidgins and Creoles to Grammatical Theory. In: F. Newmeyer (Ed.): Linguistics: the Cambridge Survey II. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, pp. 285-307.
- Code-switching and grammatical theory. In: L. Milroy, P. Muysken (Eds.): One speaker, two languages. Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 177-198.
- Categories in the syntax and the lexicon: Evidence from language contact research. In: Henri Cohen, Claire Lefebvre (Eds.): Handbook of categorization in the cognitive sciences. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 46-71.
- Mixed codes. In: Peter Auer, Li Wei (eds.): Multilingual communication. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2006, pp. 303–328.
Web links
- Nijmegen Multilingualism Group (English)
- Literature by and about Pieter Muysken in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual references and comments
- ^ Overleden: Pieter Muysken (1950–2021). In: Neerlandistiek.nl. April 7, 2021, accessed April 7, 2021 (Dutch).
- ↑ Languages in Contact
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muysken, Pieter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muysken, Pieter Cornelis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oruro , Bolivia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 2021 |