Leonie Cornips

Leonie Cornips works as a linguistic researcher at NL-Lab/Meertens Instituut (KNAW) Amsterdam (4.5 days from 1/1/2024) and as a Professor of Language Culture in Limburg at Universiteit Maastricht (0.5 days). She is a linguist and sociolinguist by training and specializes in research into forms of new Dutch, such as the Dutch spoken in Heerlen or in Lombok, Utrecht and Rotterdam. She also conducts research into how young children acquire Dutch as their first and second language. She also researches language culture (especially in Limburg): how people identify with each other through language use or not and include or exclude others. Her latest research focuses on animal language, especially how cows communicate with each other and with people.
She was a columnist writing about Language Culture in De Limburger between 2012 and early 2018.

Expertise/themes

Language culture, sociolinguistics, animal languages, cow language, animal-human communication