Norbert Corver - Curriculum Vitae#
Positions:
- 2001 - present Professor of Dutch linguistics, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University
- 2018 - 2019 (Spring term), Visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics, at University of Connecticut (UConn), USA
- 1990 - 2000 Assistant professor, Faculty of Arts, Tilburg University
Education:
- 1985 - 1990 PhD, Tilburg University, The Netherlands PhD, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- 1981 - 1985 MA, BA in Linguistics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Research projects:
- 2005 - 2010 PI, The Noun Phrase: Diversity in Dutch Design and the Design of Diversity (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
- 2013 - 2017 PI, The Syntax of Idioms (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research); in collaboration with HU Brussels, PI: professor Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Research Foundation Flanders)
- 2014 - 2019 Member management team & team leader Regional languages, Advancing the European Multilingual Experience, large scale FP7 collaboration grant (European Commission)
- 2021 - 2025 PI, Mind your Manner Adverbials (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
Book series editor:
- 2014 - present Studies in Generative Grammar (SGG), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York
- 2020 - present Comprehensive Grammar Resources, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
Commission of Trust:
- 2007 - 2008 Member, Toptalent committee, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- 2010 - 2017 Member, Research council for Humanities, Royal Academy of Dutch Sciences
- 2018 - 2021 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Division ‘Social Sciences and Humanities’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Other functions:
- 2005 - 2009 & 2017 - 2021 Head of the Dutch department, Utrecht university
- 2013 - 2018 Director Masterlanguage; national, inter-university MA-education program
- 2021 - present Chairperson, The Van Riemsdijk Foundation
Honours & awards:
- 1997 Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, 1996-1997
- 1988, 2009, 2016 Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
