Marc van Oostendorp (; born 15 December 1967 in

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) is a Dutch

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and

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. From 2004 he has served as a weekly commentator on linguistics for Radio Noord-Holland. Since 2007, he has researched phonological microvariation,

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and

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. He is currently attached to the

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. In

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and the Netherlands, van Oostendorp is known as a contributor to ''

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'' ("Society for our language"). He collaborates with Belgian copywriter Erik Dams to produce ''Taalpost'', a thrice-weekly e-mailed newsletter on the topic of language in general and Dutch in particular.

Brief biography

Oostendorp received his BA in Dutch literature and linguistics from Leiden University in 1987. From

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he earned both his master's degree in

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and

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(1991) and his doctorate in linguistics (1995).Curriculum vitæ Marc van Oostendorp
Accessed 3 November 2014. In 1995, on the

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model, he founded

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, a free library of electronic editions of classical Dutch literature. To help disseminate linguistic knowledge, among other things, in 1996 he compiled a guide to help people create their own home pages on the Internet. From September 1997 to January 2001 he was associate professor of interlinguistics and

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at the

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. By coincidence, he shares a birthday (15 December) with Esperanto creator

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. Since 1999 he has been a senior researcher for the

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, a group concerned with research and documentation into Dutch language and culture.Marc van Oostendorp, Onderzoek
Accessed 3 November 2014. He also held visiting lectureships at universities in

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;

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;

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and

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Selected works

* 2011: ''The Blackwell Companion to Phonology''. Ed. by Marc van Oostendorp t al. 5 vols. Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell. * 2005: ''The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments''. Ed. by Marc van Oostendorp and Jeroen van de Weijer. Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter. * 2000: ''Phonological Projection. A Theory of Feature Content and Prosodic Structure'' Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter, 396 pages.

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* (in Dutch) {{DEFAULTSORT:Oostendorp, Marc van 1967 births Living people Dutch Esperantists Linguists from the Netherlands Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Academic staff of Leiden University Phonologists from the Netherlands Dialectologists Esperanto educators Writers from Rotterdam Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen