Johan Rooryck#
Membership Number: | 5024 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
Elected: | 2019 |

Present and Previous Positions
- 1993 - 2019 Professor of French linguistics, Leiden University
- 1990 - 1993 Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics of Indiana University, Bloomington.
- 1988 - 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program of Linguistics and the Department of French of the Pennsylvania State University
- 1984 - 1988 Research Assistant of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, affiliated to the University of Louvain (KULeuven)
Fields of Scholarship
- Generative grammar
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Morphology
- Linguistic variation (Germanic, Romance)
- Core knowledge systems
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - 2012 Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship from the Lorentz Center and NIAS to prepare a workshop on the impact of research on core knowledge systems on research in the humanities