Hilda Judith Koopman | |
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Born | 1953 |
Nationality | American and French |
Alma mater | B.A., University of Amsterdam;, B.A, University of Amsterdam:, Ph.D., University of Tilburg |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Linguistics |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA |
Academic advisors | Henk van Riemsdijk,[1] Kenneth Hale |
Hilda Judith Koopman is a linguist who does research and fieldwork in the areas of syntax and morphology. She is a professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the director of the SSWL (Syntactic and Semantic Structures of the World's Languages)[2][3][4] database. The SSWL, which she together with Dennis Shasha inherited from Chris Collins at New York University NYU, is an open-ended database of syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties.