Willem Leo Wetzels#
| Membership Number: | 5055 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- 01, 2019 - 12, 2022 Invited researcher École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
- 09, 2017 - present Professor of Linguistics, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
- 06, 2017 - present Part-time researcher, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- 09, 2014 - 08, 2015 Professor of Linguistics, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brasil
- 09, 2002 - 06, 2017 Professor, Chair of Romance Languages and Languages of the Amazon, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- 09-1990 - 08, 2002 Professor, Chair of French Language and Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
- 01, 2007 - 04, 2009 Directeur de recherche, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP), CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris
- 09, 1985 - 1990 Associate professor French Linguistics, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands.
- 09, 1981 - 08,1982 Harvard University, Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, Cambridge, MA, USA (academic year)
- 01, 1984 - 06, 1984 Harvard University, Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, Cambridge, MA, USA (one semester)
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical phonology and morphology
- French phonology and morphology
- Portuguese phonology and morphology
- Historical phonology
- Phonology and morphology of Indigenous languages of South America
- Comparative linguistics
Honours and Awards
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
