Zwart, Jan-Wouter

Jan-Wouter Zwart is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Groningen. He studied Latin and Ancient Greek at the University of Nijmegen and linguistics at Groningen, where he defended his award-winning dissertation 'Dutch Syntax: A Minimalist Approach' in 1993. Professor Zwart was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and a visiting professor at the University of Geneva in 2002. His research and teaching centres around theoretical syntax, including also linguistic typology, historical linguistics, dialectology and Germanic linguistics. He i...