Eötvös Loránd Univ., Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Partner
Marcel den Dikken (*1965) received his MA in English language and literature in 1988 and his PhD in linguistics in 1992, both from the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Since 2015, he has held a dual appointment as a Research Professor at Eötvös Loránd University and as a Senior Researcher at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest, Hungary. From September 1998 to September 2015, he was a Professor on the faculty of the PhD and MA Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He has also held appointments at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of Groningen, and Tilburg University, and has served the University of California at Los Angeles, the Université de Paris VII, the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Seoul National University as a Visiting Professor.
Den Dikken is the author of the monographs Particles (1995), The structure of the noun phrase in Rotuman (2003), Relators and linkers (2006), and Dependency and directionality (2018), and co-author of Syntax of Dutch: Nouns and noun phrases (Vol. 2; 2012). He has published well over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes and encyclopedias, and is (co-)editor of several volumes and special issues of journals. His research covers a wide variety of aspects of syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics.
Den Dikken is a member of the Editorial Boards of more than ten international peer-reviewed journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, Glossa, Syntax, and The Linguistic Review. He has served as editor-in-chief of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and is one of the Series Editors of the affiliated book series Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax (2013).
Den Dikken has served as (co-)PI or collaborator on research grants awarded by the National Science Foundation (USA), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), the Central Europe Leuven Strategic Alliance, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He has also served as a panel member or panel evaluator for the European Research Council in Brussels, the Romanian National Research Council and the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu grants system of the State Research Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Den Dikken has been a Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008.