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Leonie Cornips is appointed Extraordinary Professor of Language Culture in Limburg
31 August 2011
Dr. Leonie Cornips has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of Language Culture in Limburg at Maastricht University (UM) as of 1 September. This extraordinary Chair is funded by the Province of Limburg and UM. The four-year tenure equals 0.2 fte. The Chair’s main objective is to study how local identities are performed in language use. The project will concentrate on the Dutch province of Limburg within its local, regional, national and Euregional contexts. Language use in Limburg refers to all varieties spoken in Limburg, i.e. dialects, (regional) standard, hybrids like youth varieties, German, English, Polish, Turkish, etc. All these languages constitute a pool of resources that speakers deploy both automatically and intentionally in their day-to-day practices. is to provide more insight into the dynamic development of spoken, sung and written languages in Limburg.
Leonie Cornips (1960) was born in Heerlen. She studied Dutch Language and Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She wrote her dissertation on language variation in Heerlen Dutch at the level of the sentence. Since then, she has been and is associated with the Meertens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), a research institute that studies and documents Dutch language and culture, as a Senior Researcher of Language Variation. She took part in and supervised numerous research projects, focusing on: the relationship between language and identity, new forms of Dutch, language as social behaviour, youth language and “street language”, language contact, multilingualism and language choice.
The Chair is part of the Province of Limburg’s implementation plan “A Literary Liaison: meeting and dialogue in (regional) language and literature”. A four-year position for a doctoral researcher has also been linked to the Chair.
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