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Dirk Geeraerts
Dirk Geeraerts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leuven. As the founder 
of the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics, his main re­
search interests involve the overlapping fields of lexical semantics, lexicology, and 
lexicography, with a specific focus on cognitive semantic theories of meaning and lex­
ical variation. His publications include
Diachronic Prototype Semantics
(1997) and
Theories of Lexical Semantics
(2010). As the founder of the journal
Cognitive Linguis­
tics
, he played an important role in the international expansion of Cognitive Linguis­
tics. He is the editor, with Hubert Cuyckens, of
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive 
Linguistics
(OUP 2010).
Hubert Cuyckens
Hubert Cuyckens (PhD 1991) is professor of English language and linguistics at the 
University of Leuven, where he is a senior member of the “Functional Linguistics 
Leuven” research unit (see http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/fll for more information). 
His interest in Cognitive Linguistics dates from the 1980s, when he started investi­
gating the importance of prototype theory for the analysis of such highly polysemous 
items as prepositions. He has published a substantial number of articles on the cogni­
tive semantics of prepositions in English and Dutch. He has also published several 
edited volumes on cognitive lexical semantics and on the study of adpositions, includ­
ing
Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics
(with Britta Zawada, 2001);
Cognitive Ap­
proaches to Lexical Semantics
(with John Taylor and René Dirven, 2003);
Perspec­
tives on Prepositions
(with Günter Radden, 2003); and
Adpositions of Movement
(with Walter de Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans, 2005). His recent research is con­
cerned with issues in the diachrony of English from a cognitive-functional perspec­
tive; these include grammaticalization phenomena and the development of comple­

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