Rint Sybesma is a professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).

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Fields of Interest

The syntax of the Sinitic and non-Sinitic languages of China and comparative syntax more generally.

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Rint Sybesma was educated in Leiden, the Netherlands (Universiteit Leiden), and Shenyang, China (Liaoning Daxue). He holds MAs in Linguistics and Sinology (1987; Leiden) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics (1992; Leiden). Dissertation: Causatives and accomplishments. The case of Chinese ba.

Key publications

• Sybesma, Rint, Editor in Chief, with Wolfgang Behr, Yueguo Gu, Zev Handel, C.-T. James Huang and James Myers, eds: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Leiden: Brill. 2017.
• Lipták, Anikó and Rint Sybesma: “Missing and not found. What adjectival agreement reveals about determinerless headlines in Dutch and German.” Linguistic Variation 24/1: 77-115. 2024. [https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.22001.lip]
• Sybesma, Rint: “Voice and little v and VO-OV word-order variation in Chinese languages.” Syntax 24/1, 44-77. 2021.[http:⁠/⁠/dx.doi.org/10.1111/synt.12211]

Other publications can be found under 'Publications' (top of page).

Teaching

Linguistics courses at all levels in the department of Chinese studies.

Publications

Activities