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Muysken, Pieter

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Personal name headingMuysken, Pieter
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Associated placeNijmegen (Netherlands)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
New Haven (Conn.)
Leiden (Netherlands)
AddressCLS@let.ru.nl
Birth date1950-04-11
Death date2021-04-06
Place of birthOruro (Bolivia)
Place of deathNetherlands
Field of activityBilingualism
Creole studies
Endangered languages
Quechua language
Papiamentu language
AffiliationYale University
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Fakultät der Geisteswissenschaften
Linguistic Society of America
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
Profession or occupationLinguistics professor Sociolinguist Editor
Found inSyntactic developments in the verb phrase of Ecuadorian Quechua, 1977: t.p. (Pieter Muysken)
Diccionario español quichua, quichua español, 1977: t.p. (Pieter C. Muysken)
Lenguas de Bolivia, 2009-: volume 1, title page (Pieter Muysken) volume 2, cover page 4 (affiliated with the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen website, November 4, 2014: (Pieter Muysken; born in Oruro (Bolivia) in 1950; received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 1977 with a dissertation on the syntax of Ecuadorian Quechua; since 2001 he is Professor of Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, where he has been holding a KNAW Academy chair since 2007; his contributions in the field of linguistics especially concern language contact, bilingualism, Creole studies, and the documentation of endangered languages; He has done much to bring theoretical and applied linguistics together, making the Netherlands a center of theoretically informed work on language contact; CLS@let.ru.nl)
   <http://www.ru.nl/lenguasdebolivia/authors/editors/>
Academia Europaea website, May 14, 2022: (Pieter Cornelis Muysken; born April 11, 1950 in Oruro, Bolivia; Dutch citizen; bachelor's in Latin American studies and Spanish, Yale University (1972); master's with minors in Quechua and Papiamentu (1974) (thesis: Some syntactic aspects of creolization) and Ph.D. (1977) (thesis: Syntactic developments in the verb phrase of Ecuadorian Quechua), Faculty of Arts of the University of Amsterdam; editor of the journal Bilingualism : language and cognition (Cambridge University Press) (1997-2005); chair of the Linguistics Department (2001-2005) and director of research2005- Director of Research, Centre for Language Studies (since 2005), Radboud University Nijmegen)
   <https://www.ae-info.org/attach/User/Muysken_Pieter/CV/muysken_pieter_cv.pdf>
Linguistic Society of America website, May 14, 2022: author's obituary posted on April 23, 2021 (Pieter Muysken; born in 1950 in Oruro, Bolivia; died on April 6, 2021, after a long battle with an aggressive form of cancer; sociolinguist who specialized in pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages; member of the Linguistic Society of America LSA (beginning in 1980) and was an associate editor for the LSA's flagship journal, Language (2014-2016))
   <https://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2021/04/23/memoriam-contact-linguist-pieter-muysken>
Languages 6:107, 2021: author's obituary (Pieter Muysken; born April 11, 1950 in Oruro, Bolivia; passed away April 6, 2021 in The Netherlands on 6 April 2021; member of the editorial board of Languages; retired from Radboud University in 2017)
   <https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/languages/languages-06-00107/article_deploy/languages-06-00107.pdf>
El kichwa ecuatoriano, 2019: title page (Pieter Muysken) page 9, etc. (researcher affiliated with the University of Amsterdam (1977-1999), the University of Leiden (1999-2001), and the Radboud University Nijmegen (2001-2017); author of several works including Syntactic developments in the verb phrase of Ecuadorian Quechua (1977))
Associated languagespa eng dut