Jan Koster

Who is Jan Koster?

Jan Koster is a Dutch linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Groningen.

Koster studied at the University of Amsterdam, where, after visiting MIT, he received his PhD in 1978. Before moving to Groningen, Koster was assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University, and associate professor at Tilburg University.

With Henk van Riemsdijk and Jean-Roger Vergnaud, Koster was one of the founders of GLOW, the major European organization of generative linguistics. He was co-founder and editor of The Linguistic Review and is currently co-editor of Studies in Generative Grammar. He specializes in theoretical syntax and the philosophy and history of linguistics. He made notable contributions to the theories of word order, locality and anaphora.