Gerard Kempen

Gerard Kempen (1943) is emeritus-professor of cognitive psychology at Leiden University, and Research Associate of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. From 1976 to 1992 he was professor of psycholinguistics at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, where he had received his PhD in 1970. His scientific work concerns the grammatical aspects of human sentence production and comprehension. He is studying these topics through a combination of experimental-psychological and (corpus-)linguistic, methods.