Hilda Koopman


Hilda Judith Koopman is a linguist who does research and fieldwork in the areas of syntax and morphology. She is a professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the director of the SSWL database. The SSWL, which she inherited from Chris Collins at New York University NYU, together with Dennis Shasha is an open-ended database of syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties.

Research interests

Hilda Koopman is interested in both theoretical linguistics and field linguistics. Her area of specialization includes linguistic theory, fieldwork, syntax, morphology, comparative syntax As a field linguists, she has worked on various languages. Some of the languages and language family she has worked on include the following:
Kru languages,
Gur,
Mande,
Kwa,
Grassfield Bantu,
West Atlantic language,
Bantu,
Nilotic,
Austronesian languages,
Creole languages.

Career

Koopman has been a professor of Linguistics at UCLA since 1985. She served on the editorial boards of Oxford University Press, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.

Selected publications