Prof. of Linguistics at the Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, N.Z.; emigrated from the Netherlands in 1951; after a period teaching at high school he was appointed to the Univ. of Canterbury in 1975; he has spent periods of leave at the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mass., Bard College, NY, Bethany College, W Va., Utrecht Univ., the Max Planck Inst. for Psycholinguistics, and the Netherlands Inst. for Advanced Study; http://www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz/people/kuiper.shtml