Hilda Koopman
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Hilda Judith Koopman | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) |
| Alma mater | B.A., University of Amsterdam;, B.A, University of Amsterdam:, Ph.D., University of Tilburg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA |
| Academic advisors | Henk van Riemsdijk,[1] Kenneth Hale |
Hilda Judith Koopman is a linguist who does research and fieldwork in the areas of syntax and morphology. She is a professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the director of the SSWL (Syntactic and Semantic Structures of the World's Languages)[2][3][4] database. The SSWL, which she together with Dennis Shasha inherited from Chris Collins at New York University NYU, is an open-ended database of syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties.
Hilda Koopman is interested in both theoretical linguistics and field linguistics. Her area of specialization includes linguistic theory, fieldwork, syntax, morphology, comparative syntax. As a field linguist, she has worked on various (un(der)described) languages. Some of the languages and language family she has worked on include the following: Kru languages (Vata, Dida, Gbadi..), Gur (Nawdem), Mande (Bambara), Kwa (Abe(y)..), Grassfield Bantu (Nweh, Ncufie, Bafanji), West Atlantic language (Wolof, Fulani), Bantu (Ndendeule, Siswati), Nilotic (Maasai, Dholuo), Austronesian languages (Malagasy, Javanese, Samoan, Tongan), Creole languages (Haitian, Sranan, Saramaccan).
