Albert Backus

Albert Backus is a Full Professor at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, specializing in Cultural Studies with a focus on multiculturalism, bilingualism, and language contact. His work bridges sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics, examining how multilingual environments shape linguistic structures and cultural identities.

• Research Interests: Multilingualism, Turkish-Dutch language dynamics, usage-based linguistic theory, register variation, and the myth of 'balanced bilingualism.'
• Awards: Recipient of the 2023 LOT Grotevragenprijs for groundbreaking contributions to bilingualism studies.
• External Roles: Chief Editor of the International Journal of Bilingualism (since 2019) and member of the LOT Curriculum Committee (since 2006).
• Recent Work: Explores language transfer mechanisms via schematicity analysis, contact-induced Dutch-German linguistic shifts, and pronoun usage in Limburgian dialects.