User:Borgatya/Marcel Den Dikken

Marcel Den Dikken (born 13 December 1965) is a Dutch linguist, Research professor at the Eötvös Loránd University, and the Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest. His research focuses on generative grammar, theoretical linguistics and foundational problems of syntax, linguistic typology and morphology. He works both in Hungary and around the world, and has published mostly in English. He speaks Dutch and English fluently.

Biography and career
He was born on 13 December 1965 in Heemskerk, the Netherlands. He took M.A. degree in English Language and Literature in 1988 at the Leiden University in the Netherlands.

From 1989 until 1992 he was the salaried research assistant (Assistent-in-Opleiding) at the English Department of the University of Leiden.

In 1992 he completed his PhD degree.

From 1992 until 1993 he became an assistant professor (Universitair Docent) at the Department of General Linguistics of the University of Groningen.

From 1998 until 2000 he acted as the Associate Professor at the PhD/MA Program in Linguistics at The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York.

In 2000 he was appointed the Professor (tenured) at the PhD/MA Program in Linguistics at The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York he has served until 2015.

In 2015 he received the title of the research professor at the Department of English Linguistics, School of English and American Studies (SEAS), at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest.

From 2015 he works as the senior researcher at the Theoretical Linguistics Department of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest.

He is a notable and respected scientist both in Hungary and around the world and developed significant research and professional relationships.

His working papers were issued in both national and international prestigious professional research scientific journals.

His main fields of interest are in the generative grammar and theoretical linguistics with special respect to the foundational problems of syntax, linguistic typology and morphology.

Marcel Den Dikken lectured as a visiting professor at several universities in the world: Seoul National University in South Korea, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, University of Paris in France, and as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California in the USA.

Editorial board memberships

 * from 1 January 2008 until 1 January 2015: Editor in Chief of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (published by Springer)
 * from 1 June 1996 until 1 January 2008: Associate Editor of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
 * as per October 2002: Series Editor of the Springer book series Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (with Liliane Haegeman and Joan Maling)
 * Editorof The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Grammar (2012)
 * member of the Editorial Board of English Linguistics, the journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, as per 1 April 2015
 * member of the Editorial Board of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (published by Springer), as per 1 January 2015
 * member of the Editorial Board of Linguistic Inquiry (published by The MIT Press), as per fall 2007
 * member of the Editorial Board of Linguistic Variation Yearbook and its successor Linguistic Variation (published by John Benjamins Publishing Co.), as per fall 2007
 * member of the Editorial Board of Lingua (published by Elsevier), from fall 2013 until the resignation of the editors and full editorial board of the journal (fall 2015)
 * member of the founding editorial board of Glossa (the Open Access successor to Lingua), as per January 2016
 * member of the Editorial Board of Syntax (published by Blackwell Publishers), as per fall 2001
 * member of the Editorial Board of The Linguistic Review (published by Mouton de Gruyter), as per 2000
 * member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Language Sciences
 * member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Generative Grammar (journal of the Korean Generative Grammar Circle), as per fall 2007
 * member of the Editorial Board of the journal of the Modern Linguistic Society of Korea (MLSK), as per 2011
 * member of the Editorial Board of the on-line journal Questions and Answers in Linguistics (QAL), as per 2013
 * member of the Editorial Board of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (published by Kluwer Academic Publishers), until 1 June 1996

Carrier-related public activities

 * 2008 Corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
 * co-director of the Budapest Research Centre for Linguistic Theory (BRCLT)/Nyelvelmeleti Kutatokozpont (NYEKK) at ELTE
 * ommittee member for Satoshi Stanley Koike (Japanese no: syntax, semantics, pragmatics), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 1999
 * committee member for Elena Rudnitskaya (syntax of Russian anaphora), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2000
 * committee member for Mana Kobuchi-Philip (syntax and semantics of floating numeral quantifiers in Japanese), CUNY Graduate Center; defended fall 2002
 * committee member for Keiko Uehara (processing of multiple nominatives in Japanese), CUNY Graduate Center; defended summer 2003
 * committee member for Maurizio Santoro (acquisition of Italian accusative/dative clitics by English speakers), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2004
 * committee member for Miki Suzuki (Japanese relative clauses), CUNY Graduate Center; defended fall 2004
 * committee member for Peter Slomanson (language contact), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2005
 * committee member for Alison Gabriele (aspect in second language acquisition), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2005
 * committee member for Naomi Lapidus Shin (acquisition of Spanish subject pronouns and pro-drop), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2006
 * committee member for Rachel Szekely (existential sentences), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2008
 * committee member for Stephanie Solt (semantics of adjectives of quantity), CUNY Graduate Center; defended summer 2008
 * committee member for Yukiko Koizumi (processing of not-because ambiguity), CUNY Graduate Center; defended summer 2008
 * committee member for Shukhan Ng (the processing of Chinese null subjects), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2009
 * committee member for Amit Shaked (relative clause attachment in Hebrew parsing), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2009
 * committee member for Didem Koban (variation in subject pronoun use in Turkish spoken in NYC), CUNY Graduate Center; defended fall 2009
 * committee member for Lidiya Tornyova (acquisition of inversion in wh- and yes/no-questions by English and Bulgarian 2- and 3-year-olds), CUNY Graduate Center; defended spring 2011
 * committee member for Lisa Reisig Ferrazzano (diachronic development of determiners and demonstratives in Romance), CUNY Graduate Center; defended 14 June 2013
 * committee member for Carolina Barrera Tobón (contact-induced word order in the Spanish of New York), CUNY Graduate Center; defended 28 August 2013
 * committee member for John Stewart (acquisition of PP syntax), CUNY Graduate Center; defended 10 July 2015
 * committee member for Elizabeth Pratt (prosody, agreement, and reading comprehension in native and second-language speakers of English), CUNY Graduate Center; defended August 2015 elsewhere – member • member of the thesis defence committee (‘oppositiecommissie’) of Janet Dijk (the participial construction in Biblical Hebrew), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; defended 16 June 1994
 * member of the thesis defence committee (‘oppositiecommissie’) of Marian Klamer (grammar of Kambera (Austronesian)), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/HIL; defended 19 December 1994 (cum laude)
 * member of the thesis committee (‘promotiecommissie’) of Tonjes Veenstra (predication and serial verb constructions in Saramaccan creole), Universiteit van Amsterdam/HIL; defended 12 April 1996
 * committee member for Sungeun Cho (Case agreement in Korean), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2000
 * committee member for Martin Kappus (topics in German negation and ‘focus shells’), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2000
 * committee member for Ildikó Tóth (infinitives in Hungarian), Tilburg University/CLS; defended 26 June 2000
 * committee member for Barbara Citko (free relatives and multidominance), SUNY Stony Brook; defended fall 2000
 * committee member for Franc Marušiè (Spell-Out and the interfaces), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2005
 * committee member for Maria Vassilieva (associative plurals), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2005
 * committee member for Carlos de Cuba (factive and non-factive complement clauses), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2007
 * committee member for Tomoko Kawamura (focus and focussensitive elements), SUNY Stony Brook; defended spring 2007
 * committee member for Lisa Levinson (verbal decomposition and lexical roots), New York University; defended summer 2007
 * member of the committee on Curriculum and Degree Requirements, Graduate Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2000–2003
 * member of the Libary Committee, Graduate Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2004–2009
 * member of the Executive Committee, PhD/MA Program in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, 1999–2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014
 * member of the Awards and Admissions Committee, PhD/MA Program in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, 1999–2002, 2008, 2011, 2014
 * member of the Curriculum and Examinations Committee, PhD/MA Program in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, since fall 2002
 * member of the Faculty Membership Committee, PhD/MA Program in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, since fall 2002
 * board member (treasurer) of the Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap (Dutch Linguistic Society; AVT), till January 1999
 * member (secretary) of the founding board of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (SOLE), till September 1994
 * member (treasurer) of the founding board of the ‘Stichting’ Generative Linguistics in Eastern Europe (GLEE), 1996

==Selected works ==

Books

 * 2018 den Dikken, Marcel: Dependency and directionality, Cambridge University Press.
 * 2006 den Dikken, Marcel : Relators and linkers: The syntax of predication, Predicate Inversion, and copulas, MIT Press.
 * 1995 Dikken, Marcel den: Particles: On the syntax of verb–particle, triadic and causative constructions, Oxford University Press.

Papers

 * 2017 Dikken, Marcel den, Surányi Balázs: Contrasting Contrastive Left-Dislocation Explications, LINGUISTIC INQUIRY 48: (7) pp. 543-584.
 * 2017 Dikken, Marcel den: Specificational Copular Sentences and Pseudoclefts, In: M, Everaert; H, van Riemsdijk (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Syntax (second edition), Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (2017) pp. 292-409.
 * 2015 Den Dikken, Marcel: On the morphosyntax of (in)alienably possessed noun phrases, In: É., Kiss Katalin; Surányi, Balázs; Dékány, Éva (eds.) Approaches to Hungarian, John Benjamins Publishing Company (2015) pp. 121-145.
 * 2014 Dikken, Marcel den: On feature interpretability and inheritance, In: Peter, Kosta; Steven, L Franks; Teodora, Radeva-Bork; Lilia, Schürcks (szerk.) Minimalism and beyond, John Benjamins Publishing Company (2014) pp. 37-55.
 * 2013 den Dikken, Marcel: Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences, In: Katharina, Hartmann; Tonjes, Veenstra (eds.) Cleft structures, John Benjamins Publishing Company (2013) pp. 35-70.
 * 2010 den Dikken, Marcel: On the functional structure of locative and directional PPs, In: Guglielmo, Cinque; Luigi, Rizzi (eds.) Mapping spatial PPs, Oxford University Press (2010) pp. 74-126.
 * 2007 den Dikken, Marcel: Phase Extension, THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS 33: (1) pp. 1-41.