Spelling Reform
Anneke Neijt (1951) studied Dutch literature and linguistics at Utrecht University, where she graduated with a dissertation on Gapping, a contribution to sentence grammar (1979). She worked at the universities of Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Tilburg, joined the Eurotra project on machine translation, received tenure in Leiden, and was a member of the first spelling committee of the Nederlandse Taalunie 1990-1994 (chair, Guido Geerts). Since 1992, she has been full professor of Dutch linguistics at Nijmegen. Together with Johan De Schryver, she wrote Handboek spelling (4th edn., 2002). Other books include Universele taalkunde (1983, 1994) and Universele fonologie (1991). She is one of the founders of the Association for Written Language and Literacy, an interdisciplinary forum for researchers on writing systems.