Reenen, prof. dr. P. Th. van (Piet/Pieter)
Research group
Linguistics and Language VariationBiography
Pieter van Reenen (b. 1941) is a Guest Variational Linguistics Researcher at the Meertens Institute. He was an endowed professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam until 2006. Van Reenen studied French and General Linguistics at the same university. In 1981 he received his PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for a dissertation entitled: Phonetic feature definitions: Their integration into phonology and their relation to speech. A case study of the feature NASAL. In his current research and in his role as Guest Researcher at the Meertens Institute he is focusing on variation in Middle Dutch (13th and, in particular, 14th-century documents) and in more than 600 modern dialects in the Low Countries. See the website middelnederlands.nl and the databases MAND/FAND/GTRP.
He previously contributed to the Morphological Atlas of Dutch Dialects and the Dialect Atlas of Dutch. Before taking up his position at the Meertens Institute, he worked (and continues to work) as an endowed professor of computational linguistics and, in particular, corpus linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Faculty of Arts, where, in addition to the above projects, he was involved in corpus research on Old French. Alongside his work at the Meertens Institute, he is a member of the editorial board of the journal Taal en Tongval.
Key publications
- Reenen, Pieter van 2021 ‘Twee problematische foneemopposities door de eeuwen heen: /s/-/z/ en /f/-/v/ in het Nederlands’. Taal en Tongval, Volume 73, Issue 2, 167 – 208.
- Reenen, Pieter van, Le statut phonologique de la nasalité vocalique en ancien français – Énigmes de l’assonance et de la rime – Contradictions, identités fautives et permissivité perceptuelle, Actes électronique du XXVII congrès international de linguistique et philologie romanes, Nancy 15 au 20 juillet 2013 CILPR-2013-3.
- Reenen, Pieter van 1995 ‘Contractions of preposition and plural article without s (e.g. A+LES to au) in Old French, a completely overlooked problem of paradigm formation with implications for the theory of language change’, in Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Medieval Dialectology, Mouton de Gruyter, 175-215.
- Reenen, Pieter van 2006. In Holland staat een ‘Huis’, Kloekes expansie-theorie met speciale aandacht voor de dia-lecten van Overijssel. Amsterdam & Münster: Stichting Neerlandistiek VU & Nodus Publikationen.