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Jacob L. Mey

Jacob L. Mey
Born (1926-10-30) 30 October 1926 (age 90)
Amsterdam
Institutions University of Southern Denmark
Alma mater University of Copenhagen
Thesis  (1960)
Doctoral advisor Louis Hjelmslev
Doctoral students Roger Schank

Jacob Louis Mey (born 30 October 1926, in Amsterdam) is a professor of linguistics, specializing in pragmatics. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, from which he retired in 1996.

Mey received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Copenhagen in 1960, supervised by Louis Hjelmslev. He has also worked at the University of Oslo, the University of Texas at Austin, Georgetown University, Yale University, Tsukuba University, The National Language Research Institute, Tokyo, Northwestern University, the City University of Hong Kong, the University of Frankfurt, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Universidade de Brasília, the University of Haifa and Haifa Technion, Södertörn University College, and Örebro University.


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