Utrecht University: Norbert Corver joins Academia Europaea

Academia Europaea
Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy. Their members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research. Founded in 1988, with about 3800 members which includes leading experts from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and the law. New members are invited on the recommendation of peers and admitted by the Council of the academy.

Norbert Corver
Norbert Corver is Professor of Dutch Linguistics. He studies the syntactic structure of natural languages from a comparative perspective. He focuses on the question which properties languages have in common, as well as on the question how they can differ from each other. With his research, he tries to contribute to a theory of natural language that aims to explain the scope and restrictions on syntactic variation. These research questions are also central to his NWO project ‘Mind your Manner Adverbials!’, which will start soon.