Ton van der Wouden, linguist

Welcome to my website www.tonvanderwouden.nl. This site is perpetually under construction.

Ton van der Wouden
Nederlands/Dutch
PO BOX 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands

E-mail: ton.van.der.wouden at meertens.knaw.nl
E-mail: t.van.der.wouden at hum.leidenuniv.nl
E-mail: info at tonvanderwouden.nl

+31 (0)71 5171089 (home)

Current affiliations:

Before that, I was, among other things,

• acting professor of Dutch linguistics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster;
• acting professor of Dutch linguistics at Universität Leipzig;
• principal investigator of the VIDI-project "Dutch as a construction language" at Leiden University (see, e.g., Mika Poss's dissertation Under Construction: Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Extended Lexical Units, defended successfully at Leiden University on May 11th, 2010);
• teacher at Roosevelt Academy;
• involved in the syntactic annotation of the Spoken Dutch Corpus;
• principal investigator of the VNC project "Partikelgebruik in Nederland en Vlaanderen";
• researcher within the projects "Reflections of Logical Patterns in Language. Structure and Language Use" (Groningen), "Eurotra" (Utrecht) and "CELEX" (Nijmegen/Leiden) (data available via webcelex);

Main research interest: The grammar of Dutch

• Particles
• Morphology
• The division of labor between grammar and lexicon
• Negation and polarity
• Spoken language phenomena
• Linguistic differences between The Netherlands and Flanders

Links:

• My bibliography, with an increasing number of links to (preliminary) versions of the publications.

• Een paar plaatjes waarop ik me in het zweet sport.

• Heldinnenbrieven, waar mijn echtgenote Olga zich onder veel meer mee beziggehouden heeft.

left: Olga and Machteld, Summer 2010, centre: Olga and Machteld, January 2001, right: Maresingel, the street in Leiden where we live (photo courtesy wikimedia).