Willem F.H. Adelaar#
| Membership Number: | 5085 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/willem-adelaar#tab-1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - 2018 Local PI in ERC Twinning project Engaged Humanities (cooperation with University of Warsaw and SOAS, London)
- 2012 - 2017 Director and principal investigator of ERC Advanced project “The Linguistic Past of Mesoamerica and the Andes" (cooperation with Max Planck Institute EVA, Leipzig, and Oxford University)
- 2002, 04-07 Visiting Fellow Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Victoria (Australia)
- 1999 - 2000 Resident-fellow of NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities and Social Sciences), Wassenaar
- 1996 - 1998 Member of the directory board and vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts, Leiden University
- 1994 - 2017 Full professor of Languages and Cultures of Indigenous America, Leiden University
- 1985 - 1990 Directory board of the Foundation of Linguistics of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, The Hague
- 1978 - 1993 Senior lecturer in Amerindian linguistics in the department of Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University
- 1971 - 1978 Lecturer in the departments of General, resp. Comparative linguistics, Leiden University
- 1970 - 1971 Grantee of the Netherlands Organization for Pure Scientific Research (ZWO) for field research on Quechua in Peru
Fields of Scholarship
- Language description (phonology, grammar, semantics, lexicon)
- Digital transcription and interpretation of unpublished handwritten sources on Amazonian languages
- Areal typology
- Historical linguistics and linguistic reconstruction
- Language endangerment
- Andean languages (Aymara, Mapudungun, Mochica, Pukina, Quechua, other minor languages)
- Amazonian languages (Guaraní, Harakmbut, Katukina, Amuesha, Chiquitano, Jê languages)
- Interface of linguistics, archaeology and human population genetics
- Language contact
- Mesoamerican languages (Mayan)
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America
- 2014 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2011 ERC Advanced Grant "The Linguistic Past of Meso-America and the Andes".
- 2011 Honorary Professor of the Academic Department of Humanities, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
- 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
