27.2210, Featured Linguist: Johan Rooryck

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Subject: 27.2210, Featured Linguist: Johan Rooryck

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Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 10:23:44
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Johan Rooryck

 
Dear LINGUIST List Readers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist, Johan Rooryck, for
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I have always been fascinated by the variety and structure of languages. My
father greatly contributed to my lifelong passion ­for linguistics by
instilling in me a deep love and appreciation for Latin — he had taken a
degree in Classics before pursuing a career in Law. In high school in Belgium,
I was lucky to have had inspiring and demanding language teachers as well.
Through the study of Latin, I learned to rigorously reflect on language and
its structure from an early age.

At the University of Leuven, I studied what was then known as ‘Romance
philology’, a combination of literary and linguistic studies of Romance
languages. During the first year, I received an introduction to linguistics
from a somewhat eccentric and unconventional professor, Karel van den Eynde, a
former Bantuist and structural linguist. His teaching style consisted of
defiantly throwing linguistic puzzles at his students, challenging us to come
up with an analysis. Only a few years later did I discover that most of these
puzzles came straight out of Henry Allan Gleason’s 1961 Introduction to
Descriptive Linguistics. It was around this time that I decided that the study
of language would be my professional future.

I wrote my MA dissertation on ellipsis and gapping. Two years later, part of
this MA dissertation turned into my very first scholarly article published in
Linguistic Analysis in 1985. I received a four-year stipend from the Belgian
National Science Foundation to pursue a PhD at the University of Leuven. In
1987, I defended my PhD on infinitival complementation in French. My
dissertation dealt with issues at the syntax-semantics interface. It examined
the interpretation of the empty subject of infinitives, a topic known as
control. This fascination with the relation between syntax and semantics would
become an enduring one in all of my research.

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