Dr. J.S. (Jenny) Doetjes

Position:
  • Senior lecturer
Expertise:
  • syntax semantics interface french linguistics


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2181
E-Mail: j.doetjes@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL Frans
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
van Wijkplaats 2
2311 BX Leiden
Room number 1.05a


Research

Research interests:

Syntax-semantics interface, French linguistics, degree expressions, quantification, lexical categories, plurality, topic and focus, negation


Research projects: 
   
 

2006 - 2011  Degrees across categories, NWO Vidi-project, Leiden University
1999 - 2005  Focus on French, NWO individual postdoc project, Utrecht University
1999 - 2003 PICS project Principal investigators: Francis Corblin & Henriëtte de Swart
Project groups I participated in: Information structure (coordinator),   Determiners, Adverbs 

Publications

  • Jenny Doetjes (to appear). Adverbs and quantification: degrees versus frequency. To appear in Lingua.
  • Jenny Doetjes (2005).The cameleontic nature of French ni: negative coordination in a negative concord language, Proceedings Sinn und Bedeutung 9, 57-71.
  • Claire Beyssade, Elisabeth Delais, Jenny Doetjes, Frank Drijkoningen, Aafke Hulk, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe, Jean-Marie Marandin, Georges Rebuschi, Annie Rialland, Petra Sleeman (in various combinations) (2004). Information. Handbook of French semantics, part V, Francis Corblin & Henriëtte de Swart (eds), CSLI Publications, Stanford, 455-581.
  • Jenny Doetjes (2004). Degree quantifiers. Handbook of French semantics, part I: Determiners, Francis Corblin & Henriëtte de Swart, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 83-98.
  • Anne Abeillé, Jenny Doetjes, Henriëtte de Swart & Arie Molendijk (2004). Adverbs and quantity. Francis Corblin & Henriëtte de Swart (eds), Handbook of French Semantics. CSLI, Stanford, 185-210.
  • Ad Neeleman, Hans van de Koot & Jenny Doetjes (2004). Degree expressions. The Linguistic Review 21:1, 1-66.
  • Jenny Doetjes (1997). Quantifiers and selection: On the distribution of quantifying expressions in French, Dutch and English. Dissertation Leiden University, HAG, The Hague.

For more publications, go to the publication page.

Teaching activities

Franse Taalkunde 4 Franse Taalkunde 5 Outils (vocabulaire/grammaire) Séminaire MA Ces sacrés adjectifs (2005-2006) Séminaire BA Parlez-vous céfran ? (2005-2006)   Course material : readers for introductory courses in French linguistics

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

1992 - 1997 Leiden University
PhD program Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL)
1991 - 1992 Université Paris 8, Sciences du Langage
1985 - 1991  Leiden University, Dept. of French and Dept. of Linguistics


Work:

2002 - present  Leiden University, Department of French
1999 - 2005 Utrecht University, Postdoc
1997 - 2002 Various replacements etc. in Leiden and Utrecht

Last Modified: 09-01-2012