Hilda Judith Koopman is a linguist who does research and fieldwork in the areas of syntax and morphology.
She is a professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the director of the SSWL (Syntactic and Semantic Structures of the World's Languages)[2][3][4] database.
The SSWL, which she together with Dennis Shasha inherited from Chris Collins at New York University NYU, is an open-ended database of syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties.
Her area of specialization includes linguistic theory, fieldwork, syntax, morphology, comparative syntax As a field linguists, she has worked on various (un(der)described) languages.
[5][6] She served on the editorial boards of Oxford University Press (comparative syntax), Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Book series), Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.