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Dirk Geeraerts

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October 24, 1955

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Dirk Geeraerts holds the chair of theoretical linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the founder of the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL). His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of lexical semantics, lexicology, and lexicography, with a theoretical focus on cognitive semantics.

His involvement with cognitive linguistics dates from the 1980s, when in his PhD thesis he was one of the first in Europe to explore the possibilities of a prototype-theoretical model of categorization. As the founder of the journal Cognitive Linguistics and as the editor (with Hubert Cuyckens) of the Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, he played an instrumental role in the international expan ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 93 ratings · 6 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	THEORIES OF LEXICAL SEMANTICS PAPER 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Oxford Handbooks) by Dirk Geeraerts (Editor ), Hubert Cuyckens (Editor ) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Structure of Lexical Variation: Meaning, Naming, and Context (Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR], 5) by Dirk Geeraerts, Stefan Grondelaers, Peter Bakema really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Words and Other Wonders: Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics (Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR], 33) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lexical Variation and Change: A Distributional Semantic Approach by Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman, Kris Heylen it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR], 45) by Dirk Geeraerts (Editor), Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Convergentie en divergentie in de Nederlandse woordenschat. Een onderzoek naar kleding- en voetbaltermen by Dirk Geeraerts, Stefan Grondelaers, Dirk Speelman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars