Jan Rijkhoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Upon gaining his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam (1992), he was appointed as a senior researcher at the same institution before going on to become Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz in Germany (1995). From 1990-5, Professor Rijkhoff was also a core member of Theme Group II (Constituent Order) in the European Science Foundation's 'Program in Language Typology "EUROTYP"'.