Helen de Hoop

Helen de Hoop (born 1964) is a Dutch linguist and Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is known for her works on the relationship between the form and interpretation of language.^[1]

Helen de Hoop
Born	(1964-03-15) March 15, 1964 (age 61) Oud-Beijerland
Academic background
Education	Groningen University (PhD)
Thesis	Case configuration and noun phrase interpretation (1992)
Academic work
Discipline	linguistics
Sub-discipline	semantics
Institutions	Radboud University Nijmegen

Education and career

de Hoop has an M.A. (1987) and a Ph.D. (1992) from the University of Groningen. As of 2022 her dissertation^[2] has been cited over 840 times.^[3] She did postdoctoral work at the Utrecht University from 1997 until 2000. In 2001 she joined Radboud University Nijmegen where she was promoted to professor in 2007.^[4] de Hoop has been editor at the Journal of Linguistics since 2015.^[5]

Selected publications

de Hoop has over 150 publications with an h-index of 32.^[3]

• Hendriks, Petra; de Hoop, Helen (2001). "Optimality Theoretic Semantics". Linguistics and Philosophy. 24 (1): 1–32. doi:10.1023/A:1005607111810. hdl:2066/104537. S2CID 61042428.
• de Hoop, Helen; Malchukov, Andrej L. (2008-10-01). "Case-Marking Strategies". Linguistic Inquiry. 39 (4): 565–587. doi:10.1162/ling.2008.39.4.565. hdl:2066/67660. ISSN 0024-3892. S2CID 18155459.
• de Hoop, Helen; Malchukov, Andrej (2007-09-01). "On fluid differential case marking: A bidirectional OT approach". Lingua. 117 (9): 1636–1656. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2006.06.010. hdl:2066/44503. ISSN 0024-3841.