About the Author
Arie Verhagen (PhD 1986) is professor emeritus of Language, Culture, and Cognition at Leiden University (The Netherlands). He previously held positions at the Free University in Amsterdam, the University of Utrecht, Leiden University, and the University of Antwerp. From 1996 till 2004, he served as editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Linguistics. His grammatical work includes studies on word order, passive, causative, connectives, wh-questions, complementation, and other construction types. With his 2005 monograph Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition (Oxford University Press), he contributed to the so-called ‘social turn’ in cognitive linguistics. He has been a (co)supervisor in a number of externally funded interdisciplinary projects, on topics such as comparing cultural evolution in human language and bird song, computational modeling of language acquisition and language change, stylistics and rhetoric in literature and non-fiction, and dialogues in past and present communication. His research is framed in a (radically) usage-based approach (for a recent overview, see Dirk Geeraerts, “Grammar in the context of intersubjective usage”, Nederlandse Taalkunde/Linguistics 21 (2016), 395–407), and focuses especially on the connection between grammar, discourse, and the highly developed human ability to understand other minds, as a basis for cooperation. A recent result is the volume Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning (De Gruyter, 2016, co-edited with Barbara Dancygier and Wei-lun Lu).