Henriëtte Elisabeth de Swart (born 15 May 1961, in

Doetinchem Doetinchem (; Dutch Low Saxon, Low Saxon: ) is a city and Municipalities in the Netherlands, municipality in the east of the Netherlands. It is situated along the IJssel, Oude IJssel (Old IJssel) river in a part of the Provinces of the Netherland ...

) is a Dutch

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

Education and research

She earned her PhD at

Groningen University The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is the second oldest in the country (after ...

in 1991. She was a research fellow at

and assistant professor at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. She is currently a Professor in French linguistics and semantics at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of ...

. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic variation in meaning particularly in regards to tense and aspect,

negation In logic, negation, also called the logical not or logical complement, is an operation (mathematics), operation that takes a Proposition (mathematics), proposition P to another proposition "not P", written \neg P, \mathord P, P^\prime or \over ...

, bare nominals and indefinite noun phrases. She has also investigated the role of

semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

in language evolution, and was involved in the development of bidirectional

optimality theory Optimality theory (frequently abbreviated OT) is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the optimal satisfaction of conflicting constraints. OT differs from other approaches to phonological analysis, which ty ...

Honors and distinctions

She has been the director of the Netherlands Graduate School of linguistics (LOT) and of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS). In 2013, she was nominated to membership of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

(KNAW). de Swart is an associate editor of the journal ''Natural Language and Linguistic Theory''. She is also a member of the editorial board of ''Linguistics and Philosophy, Semantics and Pragmatics, Language and Linguistic Compass, Travaux de Linguistique,'' and the ''Catalan Journal of Linguistics.''

Selected publications

*de Swart, H.E. 2013. Indefiniteness. In M. Aronoff (Eds.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics (pp. 1–26) New York: Oxford University Press. *Le Bruyn, B.S.W., Que, M. & de Swart, H.E. (2012). The scope of bare nominals. In A. Mari (Eds.), Genericity (pp. 116–139) (24 p.). Oxford University Press. *de Swart, H.E. 2012. Verbal aspect across languages. In Robert Binnick (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect (pp. 752–780) (28 p.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. *Hendriks, P., de Hoop, H., Kraemer, I., de Swart, H.E. & Zwarts, J. 2010. Conflicts in Interpretation. (192 p.). London: Equinox Publishing. *de Swart, Henriëtte and J Zwarts. 2009 “Less form–more meaning: Why bare singular nouns are special,” Lingua. *Farkas, Donka. Henriëtte de Swart. 2007. The semantics of incorporation: from argument structure to discourse transparency *de Swart, Henriëtte and Ivan A. Sag. 2002, “Negation And Negative Concord In Romance," Linguistics and Philosophy. 25(4): 373–417. *de Swart, Henriëtte. 1998. “Aspect shift and coercion,“ Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. *de Swart, Henriëtte. 1998. Introduction to natural language semantics. CSLI publications.

References

External links

Faculty webpage
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