Henk van Riemsdijk (born 27 April 1948 in The Hague, The Netherlands) is a Dutch linguist and professor emeritus at Tilburg University.
He was co-founder and editor of the journal The Linguistic Review (with Riny Huybregts and Jan Koster), and co-founder and editor of three book series: (i) Studies in Generative Grammar, published by Mouton de Gruyter (with Jan Koster and Harry van der Hulst); (ii) Comprehensive Grammar Resources, published by Amsterdam University Press (with István Kenesei): (iii) the Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Linguistics (with Martin Everaert).
A third important line of research addressed the question to what extent components of grammar, specifically syntax and phonology, are formally distinct or whether they overlap in some of their properties.
Besides these major lines of research, he contributed to the study of many other linguistic phenomena, including case, pied piping, parasitic gaps, free relatives, semi-lexical categories, verb (projection) raising, and split topicalization.
Linguistic studies in honor of Henk van Riemsdijk (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter; (eds.)