Lisa Cheng#
| Membership Number: | 4219 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0350-5640 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - present Chair Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands
- 1997 - 2000 Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
- 1991 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
Fields of Scholarship
- Syntax-phonology interface
- Syntax-semantics interface
- Chinese syntax-semantics
- Bantu syntax
- Comparative syntax
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Regional Chair, University of Nantes, France
- 2013 Member, de Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities)





