Jacob "Jack" Hoeksema (born 30 October 1956 in Groningen) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Dutch Language and Culture with a specialities in semantics, morphology, and historical linguistics. His first degree was in Dutch literature and linguistics at the University of Groningen in 1981, and his PhD was completed at the same university in 1984 (with the dissertation Categorial Morphology).

Hoeksema has been instrumental in the study of negative polarity, and his work is part of the Dutch school of generalized quantifier theory.[1] He is especially known for applying results from the study of monotonicity to polarity phenomena,[2] and in criticizing too narrow construals of what counts as a polarity licensor.[3] He has also worked extensively on the historical development of various aspects of grammar, mostly from corpora of Dutch and English, including documenting the changes in polarity items and in quantifiers.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "THE SEMANTICS OF NON-BOOLEAN "AND"1 -- HOEKSEMA 6 (1): 19 -- Journal of Semantics". jos.oxfordjournals.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier (2003). Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. ISBN 9780415266321.
  3. ↑ Jack Hoeksema (2008). There is No Number Effect in the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items: A Reply to Guerzoni and Sharvit. Linguistics and Philosophy 31.4.
  4. ↑ "Jack Hoeksema". festschriften.illc.uva.nl.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.