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Erik-Jan Smits
Faculty of Arts,
Dutch Department
University of Groningen
Oude Kijk 't Jatstraat 26
9712EK Groningen
The Netherlands
E.J.Smits@rug.nl
Curriculum Vitae
» Education
2004 - PhD-student, University of Groningen - working on
first language acquisition and quantification
2003-2004 BA-student Theology, University of Leiden
1999-2003 BA and MA Dutch Language and Culture / Psycho-
linguistics, University of Groningen; MA-thesis:
“Kindertaal en allemaal in de categorie QP”
» Awards
2005
Fulbright
promovendus grant to carry out research
at the Linguistics Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
» Organizer of:
· TABU-day 2005, University of Groningen
· Semantics in the Netherlands Day 2007
» Teaching
· Semantics II - Linguistics (2005/2006, semester II)
» Member of:
· International Association for the study of Child Language
· Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap
· Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT)
· Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen
» About me
Date of birth: May, 19th, 1981
Place of birth: Delft (and that's a beautiful city!)
Highschool: Marnix Gymnasium Rotterdam
» Links and me
2004 Collegium Theologicum Concordia Res Parva Crescit
2000-2002 Student Orchestra Bragi (more)
1995-2001 Rotterdam's Youth Symfonie Orchestra (more)
» Attended Courses
•C. Condoravdi (Stanford & PARC) - Semantics of Temporal Connectives. LOT Summerschool, Leiden (2005):
•V. Dayal (Rutgers) - Semantics of Questions. LOT Summerschool, Leiden (2005):
•K. Szendroi (Utrecht) - The acquisition of topic and focus. LOT Summerschool, Leiden (2005)
•John Nerbonne (University of Groningen), Seminar in Methodology and Statistics (Research MA-course, Semester II, 2004-2005)
•Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh) - Discourse Anaphora: Theories, Data and Applications (LOT Winterschool, January 17-21, 2005)
•Miranda van Turenhout (Nijmegen) - Cortical plasticity in the representation of language (LOT Winterschool, January 10-14, 2005)
•Tania Zamuner (Nijmegen) - Transition to speech (LOT Winterschool, January 10-14, 2005)
•Bart Hollebrandse (University of Groningen) - Semantics (MA-course ATWRuG, Semester II 2003-2004)
•John Nerbonne (University of Groningen) - Introduction to statistics (MA-course EMCL,RuG, September 23 - October 21 2004)
•Doug Saddy (Potsdam, Germany) - Language in Time: ERP/EEG investigations of linguistic phenomena (LOT Summerschool, June 21-25, 2004)
•Yoad Winter (Technion, Israel) - Choice Functions in Natural Language Semantics, (LOT Summerschool, June 21-25, 2004)
•Olga Borik (Moscow) - Aspectual and temporal relations in language (LOT Summerschool, June 14-18, 2004)
•Jacqueline van Kampen (UiL-OTS, Utrecht University) - The learnability of typological differences (LOT Summerschool, June 14-18, 2004)
•Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) - Ultimate attainment in adult L2 acquisition (LOT Summerschool, June 14-18, 2004)
