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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1998 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
  • 1995 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Pieter Muysken was affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research spanned multiple areas within the arts, humanities, and social sciences with a particular focus on language and linguistics.

The scientist's main fields of study included:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social Sciences

Their work further specialized into several subfields such as:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Cultural Studies
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • History

Topics frequently addressed in their research were:

  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
  • Linguistics and language evolution

Muysken co-authored numerous publications with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Hilda de Windt Ayoubi
  • Hilda Windt Ayoubi
  • Mily Crevels
  • Salikoko S. Mufwene
  • Rik van Gijn

Their publications appeared in diverse venues, commonly including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Linguistics
  • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Muysken were:

  • "Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact", 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact", 2021, Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • "Variation and change in grammatical gender marking: the case of Dutch ethnolects", 2020, Linguistics
  • "Clitics in language contact", 2021, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
  • "cldf-datasets/sails: South American Indigenous Language Structures (SAILS)", 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist also contributed to several book publications. Among these, the works published by Amsterdam University Press included three editions of Translingualism, Translation and Caribbean Poetry in 2022. Additionally, Muysken edited The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Pieter Muysken received recognition through multiple awards, such as:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2010)
  • Spinoza Prize from the Dutch Research Council (1998)
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995)

Best Publications

  • Bilingual Speech: A Typology of Code-Mixing

    Pieter Muysken

  • The availability of universal grammar to adult and child learners - a study of the acquisition of German word order:

    Harald Clahsen;Pieter Muysken

  • Language Contact and Bilingualism

    René Appel;Pieter Muysken

  • One Speaker, Two Languages: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching

    Lesley Milroy;Pieter Muysken

  • The UG paradox in L2 acquisition

    Harald Clahsen;Pieter Muysken

  • Government and code-mixing

    Anne-Marie Di Sciullo;Pieter Muysken;Rajendra Singh

  • Code-switching and grammatical theory

    Pieter Muysken

  • Language contact outcomes as the result of bilingual optimization strategies

    Pieter Muysken

  • Modeling lexical borrowability

    Roeland van Hout;Pieter Muysken

  • Pidgins and Creoles. An Introduction

    Jacques Arends;Pieter Muysken;Norval Smith

  • The Languages of the Andes

    Willem F. H. Adelaar;Pieter C. Muysken

  • Halfway between Quechua and Spanish : the case for relexification

    P.C. Muysken

  • Mixed languages and language intertwining

    P.C. Muysken;P. Bakker

  • Research techniques for the study of code-switching

    Marianne Gullberg;Peter Indefrey;Pieter Muysken

  • Substrata versus universals in Creole genesis : papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985

    Pieter Muysken;Norval Smith

  • Mixed Categories: Nominalizations in Quechua

    Claire Lefebvre;Pieter Muysken

  • THE ALTERNATION HYPOTHESIS: ACQUISITION OF DUTCH WORD ORDER BY TURKISH AND MOROCCAN FOREIGN WORKERS1

    Bert Jansen;Josien Lalleman;Pieter Muysken

  • Generative studies on Creole languages

    Pieter Muysken

  • Structured Variation in Codeswitching: Towards an Empirically Based Typology of Bilingual Speech Patterns

    Margaret Deuchar;Pieter Muysken;Sung-Lan Wang

  • Configurationality: The Typology of Asymmetries

    László Marácz;Pieter Muysken

  • Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction

    Salikoko S. Mufwene;Jacques Arends;Pieter Muysken;Norval Smith

  • Functional Categories: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Clahsen
Harald Clahsen University of Potsdam
Paul Vedder
Paul Vedder Leiden University
Catherine E. Snow
Catherine E. Snow Harvard University
Peter Auer
Peter Auer University of Freiburg
Marianne Gullberg
Marianne Gullberg Lund University
Peter Indefrey
Peter Indefrey Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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