I studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam and Comparative Linguistics at Leiden University. I also obtained a law degree. Since my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2002, I have been teaching Ancient Greek language and literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I am particularly interested in Cognitive Linguistics, Functional Discourse Grammar and Greek linguistics, especially verbal semantics (tense, aspect, mood, voice), historical linguistics (grammaticalisation), discourse analysis  (particles, word order, text types) and the linguistic aspects of narrative (focalisation, immersion).

I am the programma director of the BA Archaeology, BA Ancient Studies, BA Classics, MA Archaeology, MA Classics and Acient Studies, and RMA Classics and Ancient Civilizations.

Further academic activities and affiliations

• Coordinator research group Language of Literature (OIKOS)
• Chair Disciplinary Team classical languages Masterlanguage
• Member Editorial Board Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology (Brill)
• Member Editorial Board Lampas
• Member International Comittee Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL)
• Member Advisory Board Mnemosyne
• Member Advisory Board HABIS (University of Seville)
• Member research group Groupe Aspect Grec (INALCO, Paris). 
• Member of the board of Scholae, a joint initiative of Dutch Universities aimed at educating secondary school classics teachers
• Member Programmaraad MasterLanguage

I teach on various subjects relating to Greek language and literature. I am currently supervising two PhD projects: Joachim Kraaij ("Exposing the Sophistic Fallacy: Plato's Euthydemus. A New Critical Edition with Philological Commentary", Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, together with Gerard Boter) and Ezra la Roi ("Counterfactuals in the history of Greek. An enriched diachronic typology using a context-sensitive evolutionary model", Ghent University, together with Klaas Bentein).

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