Dirk Geeraerts (1955, PhD 1981) is professor of linguistics at the University of Leuven, where founded the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variationist Linguistics.
His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of lexical semantics and lexicology, with a specific descriptive interest in social variation, a strong methodological commitment to corpus analysis, and a theoretical allegiance to Cognitive Linguistics. As the founding editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics, as co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, and as managing editor of the book series Cognitive Linguistics Research (Mouton de Gruyter), he played and plays a significant role in the international expansion of Cognitive Linguistics.
His publications include the following (co-)authored and edited books: Paradigm and paradox (1985), The structure of lexical variation (1994), Diachronic prototype semantics (1997), Words and Other Wonders (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (2007), and Theories of Lexical Semantics (2010). For details about these publications, see http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/gling/BooksDG.htm.
His expertise extends beyond fundamental research in lexicology and lexical semantics to the practice of lexicography: he collaborated on the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (the Dutch counterpart of the OED) from 1977 to 1985, and was editor of the Van Dale Groot Woordenboek van de Nederlandse Taal (the main desk dictionary of contemporary Dutch) from 1995 to 2005.
His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of lexical semantics and lexicology, with a specific descriptive interest in social variation, a strong methodological commitment to corpus analysis, and a theoretical allegiance to Cognitive Linguistics. As the founding editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics, as co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, and as managing editor of the book series Cognitive Linguistics Research (Mouton de Gruyter), he played and plays a significant role in the international expansion of Cognitive Linguistics.
His publications include the following (co-)authored and edited books: Paradigm and paradox (1985), The structure of lexical variation (1994), Diachronic prototype semantics (1997), Words and Other Wonders (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (2007), and Theories of Lexical Semantics (2010). For details about these publications, see http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/gling/BooksDG.htm.
His expertise extends beyond fundamental research in lexicology and lexical semantics to the practice of lexicography: he collaborated on the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (the Dutch counterpart of the OED) from 1977 to 1985, and was editor of the Van Dale Groot Woordenboek van de Nederlandse Taal (the main desk dictionary of contemporary Dutch) from 1995 to 2005.
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