Liliane Madeleine Victor Haegeman ARB (born 1 July 1954) is a Belgian professor of linguistics at Ghent University.
[1][2] She received her PhD in English linguistics in 1981 from Ghent University,[2] and has written numerous books and journal articles thereafter.
Haegeman is best known for her contributions to the English generative grammar, with her book Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (1991)[3] well established[by whom?]
[4][failed verification] She is also acknowledged for her contributions to syntactic cartography, including works on the left periphery of Germanic languages,[5] negation and discourse particles,[6][7] and adverbial clauses.
(Dutch: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten).