Kees Hengeveld - Biography#

Pieter Cornelis (Kees) Hengeveld received his MA training at the University of Amsterdam, where he took two MA programs, one in Spanish Philology and one in General Linguistics. He received both his MA diploma's Cum Laude (the highest possible distinction in The Netherlands) in 1986. In that same year he obtained a PhD position at the University of Amsterdam, and in 1989 he was appointed Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics. He obtained his PhD degree Cum Laude in 1992 for a typological study on non-verbal predication that was published by Mouton de Gruyter. In 1996 he was appointed full professor in Theoretical Linguistics, again at the University of Amsterdam. Kees Hengeveld's research is characterized by a constant interplay between typological research and the elaboration of a formally explicit functionalist theory.