Liliane Haegeman
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Liliane Haegeman | |
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| Born | 1 July 1954 Knokke, Belgium |
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| Alma mater | Ghent University (PhD) |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Syntax |
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Liliane Madeleine Victor Haegeman ARB (born 1 July 1954) is a Belgian professor of linguistics at Ghent University.[1][2] She received her PhD in English linguistics in 1981 from Ghent University,[2] and has written numerous books and journal articles thereafter. Haegeman has contributed to the English generative grammar, with her book Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (1991),[3] constituting an introduction to the Principles and Parameters approach of generative linguistics.[4][failed verification] She is also acknowledged for her contributions to syntactic cartography, including works on the left periphery of Germanic languages,[5] negation and discourse particles,[6][7] and adverbial clauses.[8][9] As a native speaker of West Flemish, her research has also touched upon the comparative study of English and West Flemish in terms of the subject position and its relation to the clausal structure.[10]
Haegeman was made a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (ARB) in 1982 (Dutch: 'Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Schone Kunsten en Letteren van België'), and was also made an external member of its Flemish counterpart, the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) in 1995. (Dutch: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten). In 2000, during her teaching period in the University of Geneva, she was made Professeur honoraire.[2]
