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Dirk Geeraerts
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<h2 id="books">Books</h2> <p>His publications include the following monographs: </p> <ul><li>D. Geeraerts, <i>Paradigm and Paradox</i> (1985). Leuven: Leuven University Press.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, <i>Woordbetekenis</i> (1986). Leuven: Acco.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, <i>Wat er in een woord zit</i> (1989) Leuven: Peeters.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, S. Grondelaers & P. Bakema, <i>The Structure of Lexical Variation</i> (1994). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, <i>Diachronic Prototype Semantics</i> (1997). Oxford: OUP.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, S. Grondelaers & D. Speelman, <i>Convergentie en divergentie in de Nederlandse woordenschat</i> (2000). Amsterdam: Meertens.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, <i>Words and Other Wonders. Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics</i> (2006). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, <i>Theories of Lexical Semantics</i> (2010). Oxford: OUP.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, <i>Conceptual Structure and Conceptual Variation</i> (2017). Shanghai: Foreign Language Education Press.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, <i>Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics</i> (2018). Leiden: Brill.</li> <li>D. Geeraerts, D. Speelman, K. Heylen, M. Montes, S. De Pascale, K. Franco, M. Lang (2024). <a href="https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198890676.pdf"><i>Lexical Variation and Change. A Distributional Semantic Approach</i></a> <i>.</i> Oxford: OUP.</li></ul> <h2 id="honors">Honors</h2> <p>He is a member of the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren (<a href="https://kantl.be/">KANTL</a>) and the <a href="/facts/Academia_Europaea/yxtePdEl">Academia Europaea</a>. His 60th birthday was celebrated by the publication of <i>Change of Paradigms-New Paradoxes</i> (J. Daems et al. 2015, De Gruyter Mouton). His retirement saw the publication of a special issue of the journal <i>Nederlandse Taalkunde</i> (2022:2), and another Festschrift: G. Kristiansen et al. 2021, <i>Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited</i> (De Gruyter Mouton). </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/qlvl/people/pages/content/dirk.geeraerts-65.pdf">Career overview and academic bibliography 1978-2020</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/qlvl/members/geeraerts">Overview of his main publications, with summaries</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuSB8KI5ww4">Valedictory lecture October 29, 2021</a></li> <li><a href="http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl">Website of the research unit QLVL</a></li></ul>