Johan Rooryck

Johan Rooryck (born 1 July 1961) is a Belgian linguist and a visiting professor at Leiden University where he was Professor of French Linguistics between 1993 and 2020. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Glossa and the former executive editor of Lingua (1999-2015). Rooryck is known for his works on generative grammar.^[1][2][3] He is the executive director of cOAlition S^[4] and is a recipient of Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (2011/2012).^[5]

Johan Rooryck
Born	(1961-07-01) 1 July 1961 (age 64) Leuven
Awards	Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (2011/2012)
Academic background
Education	KU Leuven (BA, MA, PhD)
Thesis	Control verbs: an analysis of the interpretation of the non-expressed subject of infinitival constructions in French (1987)
Academic work
Discipline	linguistics
Sub-discipline	syntax, morphology
Institutions	Leiden University
Website	www.rooryck.org

Books

• Dissolving Binding Theory, with Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, Oxford University Press 2011
• Configurations of Sentential Complementation: Perspectives from Romance Languages, Routledge 2011
• Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999, edited with Yves D’Hulst and Jan Schroten, John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001
• Quitte ou Double Sens: Articles sur l'Ambiguïté offerts à Ronald Landheer, edited with Paul J. Smith and Paul Bogaards, Brill Rodopi 2001
• Phrase Structure and the Lexicon, edited with Laurie Zaring, Springer 1996