Janet Grijzenhout
Professor English Linguistics
- Name
- Prof.dr. J. Grijzenhout
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1470
- j.grijzenhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2548-2400
Janet Grijzenhout holds the chair of English linguistics.
Fields of interest
- Phonology and Morphology
- Historical Linguistics
- Language Acquisition and Attrition
Research
Janet Grijzenhout holds the chair of English Linguistics at Leiden University. Her research focuses on the phonology and morphology of Germanic and Celtic languages. She supervises projects within the Heritage Linguistics Lab on the acquisition and attrition of home languages in the Netherlands. She has taught courses in phonology, morphology, the history of the English language, first and second language acquisition, and comparative linguistics for thirty years. She is always interested in new ways to teach linguistics and to make her research findings accessible to a broad audience.
Research subjects are:
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Historical Linguistics
- North- and West-Germanic Sound Changes
- First Language Acquisition and Attrition
- Bilingualism
- Heritage Languages in the EU
- Linguistic Interfaces
Teaching activities
- English Phonetics (BA 1)
- The Phonology of English (BA 2)
- English Sound Structure and Word Formation (BA 3)
- Language Change (BA 3)
- Language Variation and Change (Master Language Programme)
- Advanced Morphology (MA Linguistics)
- Bilingual Acquisition (MA Linguistics)
Curriculum vitae
| 2017-present | Full Professor of English Linguistics, LUCL, Leiden University, the Netherlands. |
| 2020-present | Programme Chair BA English Language and Culture. |
| 2019-present | Founding member of HERLING (heritage languages and linguistics in the Netherlands), Leiden University. |
| 2005-2017 | Full Professor of Linguistics (Universitätsprofessorin W3 mit Ausstattung), Universität Konstanz, Germany. |
| 2007-2017 | Founder and director of the BabySpeechLab Konstanz (Babysprachlabor Konstanz). |
| 2014-2017 | Founder and manager of the Center for Mulitlingualism in Konstanz (Zentrum für Mehrsprachigkeit). |
| 2002-2005 | Universitair Docent, Department of English Language Studies, Utrecht University. |
| 1997-2002 | Assistant Professor, Institut für Sprache und Information, Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. |
| 1996 | Postdoc, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany and Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Canada |
| 1995 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| 1991-1995 |
Ph.D. student, Assistant Lecturer and Research Assistant, Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS), Utrecht University. |
Key publications
- Puggaard-Rode R., Botma E.D. & Grijzenhout J. (2023), Towards a quantized representation of phonological stop contrasts. In: Breit F., Botma E.D., Veer M. van 't & Oostendorp M. van (Eds.), Primitives of phonological structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 305-322.
- Osch B.A. van, Boers I.H.G., Grijzenhout J., Parafita Couto M.C., Sterken B.D. & Tat D. (2022), Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual grammars: Evidence from gender assignment in unilingual Dutch and mixed speech. In: Ayoun D. (Ed.), The Acquisition of Gender. Crosslinguistic perspectives. no. 63. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Grijzenhout J. (2017), Phonology. In: Brinton L.B. & Bergs A. (Eds.), The History of English. Volume 1: Historical Outlines from Sound to Text. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 36-56.
Professor English Linguistics
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Engels