Ad Neeleman

Ad Neeleman (born 7 November 1964 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch linguist based in the UK. He is Professor of Linguistics at University College London.

He completed his PhD under Tanya Reinhart at the University of Utrecht in 1994. Since then, he has written extensively on syntax, semantics and phonology, and particularly on the interfaces between them. His work is part of the tradition of generative grammar, but differs in several important respects from the Minimalist Program of Noam Chomsky, although it is closer to this in spirit than to other generative approaches such as Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Neeleman has also worked with Optimality Theory, another generativist approach.

Neeleman is co-author of the monographs Flexible Syntax: A Theory of Case and Arguments (1998; with Fred Weerman) and Beyond Morphology (2004; with Peter Ackema). His work has also appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Lingua.