Hedde Zeijlstra#
| Membership Number: | 7378 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.heddezeijlstra.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1929-8743 |
| Publication Link: | https://www.heddezeijlstra.org |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - now Full Professor, English Linguistics (Syntax and theory of grammar), Goettingen University, Germany
- 2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics, MIT, US
- 2006 - 2013 Assistant Professor, Dutch Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2004 - 2006 Postdoc, General Linguistics, Tuebingen University, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Semantics
- Linguistics interfaces
- Language variation and change
- Morphology
- Pragmatics
- Grammar theory
- Syntax
Honours and Awards
- 2024 - 2029 ERC Advanced Grant Unpacking Paradigmatic Gaps (UNPAG)
- 2024 - 2028 Member of the linguistics panel (Fachkollegium Sprachwissenschaften) of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
- 2024 - 2028 Co-speaker of Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1629 Negation and Beyond
- 2024 - 2025 Member of the linguistics, languages and digital humanities panel of the Danish Research Foundation (DFF).
- 2022 - 2025 Henriette Herz scout, Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- 2021 - 2030 Speaker of Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) 2636 Form Meaning Mismatches
- 2020 - onward General editor of Linguistic Variation
- 2019 - 2015 Advisory Board German Society for Linguistics (DGfS)
- 2017 - 2026 Associate editor of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
- 2017 - onward Member of the editorial boards of Linguistic Inquiry, Gossa, Journal of Linguistics, Semantics & pragmatics.
- 2017 - 2019 Volkswagen Opus Magnum award
