otto.zwartjes [at]univ-paris-diderot.fr

Né le 12 novembre 1958

2017 - …. Professeur des universités, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7).

• 2016- 2017 Associate Professor (UHD). University of Leiden. International Studies.
• 2007- 2017 Associate Professor (UHD). University of Amsterdam. Romance/ Spanish Linguistics
• 2003-2007 Assistant Professor/ (UD) University of Amsterdam
• 1998-2003 Full Professor University of Oslo (UiO) (Spanish Linguistics and Linguistic Theory)
• 1997-1998 Post-doc researcher University of Nijmegen (TCMO, KUN). Title project: Pedro de Alcalá's grammar of Arabic (1505) and the pioneer grammars of Amerindian Languages. Department of Middle East Studies and Department of Spanish.
• 1991-1995 Ph.D. Grant NWO/ “Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen” Department of Middle East Studies
• 1991-1998 Assistant Professor Spanish “Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen”.

• Historical linguistics
• History of Linguistics
• Missionary and Colonial Linguistics
• Revitalising Older Linguistic Documentation
• Translation Studies
• Muslim Spain
• Medieval Spanish Literature

• 2012–2013 : Head of Education, Department of Languages, University of Amsterdam (ca. 160 employees) : Co-responsable for the organization and preparation of the dossiers wo “visitaties” (visite des comités des experts du Haut Conseil “Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities (QANU)” comparable avec le francais HCERES). (responsable for the “self-evaluations of all the departments of Modern European Languages, and a second “visit” of Areal Studies, Arabic, Hebrew and Classical languages (Latin and Greek).
• 2010–2015 : Head of the Department Spanish Language and Culture (University of Amsterdam) (“programmateamleider”) (ca. 8 employees)
• 2010– … : Master-coordinator Spanish (MA, UvA)
• 2010–2015 : Member board of exams (Spanish, Bachelor) (examencommissie) (UvA)
• 2009– 2017 : Member Board of Studies (Opleidingscommissie) Spanish (UvA)
• 2002–2003 : Elected vice-director („Vise-bestyrer: ) Institute for Classical and Romance Languages (Klassisk og romansk institutt), (University of Oslo) (52 employees, Romance Languages Classical Languages)
• 2004–2007 : Member of the Advisory board ACLC (Amsterdam Center of Language and Communication), UvA
• 2016- 2017 : Member of the Advisory board ACLC (Amsterdam Center of Language and Communication), UvA
• 2004–2011 : Director of the Chair of Romance Linguistics (French, Italian, Spanish). (UvA) (except 2007–2008).
• 2006-2017 : Director of the Research group Revitalising Older Linguistic Documentation
• 2001-2006 : Co-ordinator of the Research group OsProMil (Oslo Project on Missionary Linguistics), financed by the Norwegian Research Council.

• 2012. …. : “Investigador colaborador” do “Centro de Estudos em Letras”, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal.
• 2012 : Prime d’excellence de publication de l’ACLC (Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication).
• 2011 : Invited as visiting lecturer/ scholar (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UNAM, Mexico City and Guadalajara, Jalisco).
• 2010 : Prime d’excellence de publication de l’ACLC (Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication).
• 2010 : Invited as “eminent scholar” by the Japan Society for the promotion of Science” (JSPS), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). Title: International Research Environment for Missionary Linguistics 宣教に伴う言語学研究 : 国際共同研究 (Develop¬ment of a Distributed Research Environment for Missionary Linguistics of the “Grand Voyage Era”. ). Coordinator: prof. dr. Masayuki Toyoshima.
• 2007-2008 : Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, Wassenaar) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2005 : Prime d’excellence (comparable à la PEDR en France): Section Langue et Littérature, Université d’Amsterdam.
• 1995 : Ph.D. in Medieval Arabic and Ibero-romance Literature (University of Nijmegen)
• 1996 : MA in Spanish, University of Amsterdam (Cum laude).
• 1987-1988 : Universidad Complutense de Madrid (research grant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain).

1. Travaux universitaires
2. Monographies / Ouvrages personnels
3. Direction de travaux
4. Direction de travaux (ouvrages et numéros de revues)
5. Articles dans des revues ou des ouvrages collectifs
6. Articles dans encyclopédies
7. Valorisation de la recherche
8. Articles CTLF (Corpus de Textes Linguistiques Fondamentaux)
9. Comptes rendus
10. Enseignement
11. Participations à des sessions, colloques, conférences, journées d’études [en tant qu’intervenant], invité et missions NWO/ KUN/ UiO/ UvA
12. Guest-Lectures / Conférencier invité/ courses/ Masterclasses
13. Poster-presentations, workshops, etc.
14. Rédaction, Responsabilités éditoriales, "Anonymous referee" Research councils, etc
15. Direction de thèses, activités d'encadrement

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Director: Otto Zwartjes

The history of the International Conferences on Missionary Linguistics starts in the year 2002 when Otto Zwartjes founded the OsProMil (Oslo Project on Missionary Linguistics), financed by the Norwegian Research Council “Norges Forskningsråd”, until 2006. The conferences are organised in three continents, Europe (Oslo, Valladolid, Bremen, Rome), Americas (São Paulo, Mérida, Lima) and Asia (Macao/Hong Kong, Tokyo, Manila). Missionary Linguistics: Five books published, (John Benjamins, Series: Studies in the History of Language Sciences) and one special issue of Historiographia Linguistica (Zwartjes & Koerner, eds.), derived from these conferences).

Forthcoming: (proceedings of the VIIIth Conference (Lima, Peru): (with Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino and Álvaro Ezcurra (eds.): Lingüística Misionera: aspectos lingüísticos, discursivos, filológicos y pedagógicos. Lima: Universidad de Lima/ Fondo Editorial (approved, in print). To appear in April 2019.

Read more about the project

Otto Zwartjes is founder of the ROLD Research group and directed the program between 2006-2017.

Description of the research group

The members of the group investigate older texts (colonial, postcolonial, missionary and non-missionary, word lists of travelers and historians) with the following objectives: historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, linguistic documentation, translation studies and sociocultural analysis. The aim of historical linguistics is to describe older stages of languages as well as (processes of) language change, while the history of linguistics studies early thinking on languages, linguistics typologies and structures and linguistics. Linguistic documentation is a crucial part of both branches. These studies are often interrelated with those of the cultural context in which colonial societies developed. Non-Western languages are our main focus. http://aclc.uva.nl/content/research-groups/revitalizing-older-linguistic-documentation/revitalizing-older-linguistic-documentation.html

Six Meetings were organized at the University of Amsterdam. Selected papers of ROLD meetings are published in the STUF-review (Berlin Akademie Verlag) and in the on-line journal Linguistics in Amsterdam). http://aclc.uva.nl/research/groups/groups/groups/content/folder/revitalizing-older-linguistic-documentation/revitalizing-older-linguistic-documentation.html

• (2017) XIV ICHoLS. (International Conference on the History of Language Sciences). Paris.
• (2017) VI CIEFE (Congreso Internacional de Español para Fines Específicos). Amsterdam. Membre comité scientifique.
• (2014) XIII ICHoLS. (International Conference on the History of Language Sciences). Vila Real.
• (2014) V CIEFE (Congreso Internacional de Español para Fines Específicos). Amsterdam.
• (2011) IV CIEFE (Congreso Internacional de Español para Fines Específicos). Amsterdam.
• (2007) Avec Manfred Woidich, Arie Schippers et Liebeth Zack: Conférence: “Deuxième colloque “Moyen arabe et varétés mixtes de l’arabe: diachronie et synchronie”. (Association internationale pour l’étude de l’arabe et des variétés mixtes de l’arabe). (Proceedings of AIMA II have been published).
• (2002) (Avec Cristina Altman) Session sur Linguistique missionaire, Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina (ALFAL). San José, Costa Rica.
• (1992) (Avec H. de Schepper & M. Kerkhof). Colloque: España ¿Ruptura 1492)? Nijmegen. (Proceedings published).