Dirk Geeraerts#
| Membership Number: | 5786 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/qlvl/people/pages/00003828 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6350-0588 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1993 Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1986 - 1993 Professor of Dutch linguistics at Campus Kortrijk of the University of Leuven
- 1985 - 1986 Associate professor, Department of Dutch, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
- 1977 - 1985 Researcher at the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Fields of Scholarship
- Diachronic linguistics
- Lexicography
- Dutch
- Lexical semantics
- Lexicology
- Cognitive linguistics
Honours and Awards
- 1978 L.K. Engels-award for General and Applied Linguistics
- 1992 Award of the Flemish Government for Scholarly Achievement (Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, awarded for the monograph Wat er in een woord zit, 1989)
- 2003 Elected member of the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL, Gent, Belgium)
- 2020 Matthias de Vries-medal for contribution to the lexicology and lexicgraphy of Dutch (Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal, Leiden, The Netherlands)
