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John Taylor |
Professor of Linguistics, University of Otago, New Zealand
Expertise: Phonetics and phonology, Germanic languages, Romance languages. Research: cognitive grammar, spatial relations, phonetics. John Taylor has held positions in Germany and in South Africa. Currently he is the managing editor of Cognitive Linguistics Research (Mouton de Gruyter) and is on the editorial board of the Functions of Language (John Benjamins), and of the journal Cognitive Linguistics .His recent publications include: Language and the Cogntive Construal of the World, 1995. Co-edited with R.E. MacLaury. (Berlin: Mouton de Gruter).Linguistic Categorization: Prototype in Linguistic Theory, 1995. 2nd edition. (Oxford University Press),Possessives in English, 1996. (Oxford University Press).
http://www.otago.ac.nz/linguistics/staff/taylor.html |
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Ronald Langacker |
Ronald W. Langacker received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois in 1966. He was a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego from that time until his retirement in 2003. During this period, 31 graduate students received their Ph.D. under his supervision, and 48 Visiting Scholars spent time at UCSD under his sponsorship. He now holds the position of Research Professor.After his training and early research in generative syntactic theory, Langacker largely devoted the first ten years of his professional career to the comparative grammar and historical reconstruction of the Uto-Aztecan family of Native American languages. In 1976, deciding that a radically different theoretical approach to language was necessary, he began developing the framework that has come to be known as “cognitive grammar”. A fundamental statement of that framework, the two volume work titled Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, was published in 1987 and 1991. Through the years, cognitive grammar has continued to be refined, further articulated, and applied to a progressively wider range of languages and phenomena. An interim summary, Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction, appeared in 2008.Langacker is a founding member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association and served as its president from 1997-99. He was chair of the organizing committee for the 2001 International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. He was a co-editor (and is now an honorary editor) of the monograph series Cognitive Linguistics Research, and serves as a member of numerous editorial and advisory boards. He has published other books and many articles dealing with a broad array of issues in cognitive linguistics. |
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Chris Sinha |
Chris Sinha is Professor of Psychology of Language. He gained his BA in Developmental Psychology at the University of Sussex and his doctorate at the University of Utrecht. Before moving to Portsmouth in September 2002, Chris taught in departments of Education, Psychology, and Language and Communication, in Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and India. He has published widely in many disciplines, including anthropology, linguistics, education, evolutionary biology, connection science, as well as developmental and cultural psychology. He is an experienced plenary lecturer at international conferences and has been a lecturer at many graduate and research schools. From September 2002, when he joined the Department of Psychology, until February 2005, Chris was Head of Department. He organized, together with Jörg Zinken, the International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind at the University of Portsmouth in July 2004, which was the first in a series of which the third will take place in 2007. He was First President (2005-2007) of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association.
Chris's central research interest is in the relations between language, cognition and culture, and a main aim of his research is to integrate cognitive linguistic with semiotic and socio-cultural approaches to language and communication, including language development and the evolution of language.
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/psychology/staff/title,50474,en.html |
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Dirk Geeraerts |
Dirk Geeraerts (born 1955, PhD 1981) holds the chair of theoretical linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the head of the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL).His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of lexical semantics, lexicology, and lexicography, with a theoretical focus on cognitive semantics. His publications include the following monographs:
- Paradigm and Paradox (1985)
- Woordbetekenis (1986) (in Dutch)
- Wat er in een Woord Zit (1989) (in Dutch)
- The Structure of Lexical Variation (1994)
- Diachronic Prototype Semantics (1997)
- Convergentie en Divergentie in de Nederlandse Woordenschat (2000) (in Dutch)
- Words and Other Wonders. Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics (2006)
- Theories of Lexical Semantics (2010)
His involvement with cognitive linguistics dates from the 1980s, when in his PhD thesis he was one of the first in Europe to explore the possibilities of a prototype-theoretical model of categorization. As the founder of the journal Cognitive Linguistics and as the editor (with Hubert Cuyckens) of the Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, he played an instrumental role in the international expansion of cognitive linguistics. Geeraerts is one of the outspoken advocates of the implementation of empirical methodologies, such as corpus linguistics in cognitive linguistic research and also argues for the involvement of more pragmatic elements such as contextual factors that influence the construal of word meanings and the choice of 'names' for concepts and the historical implications these have in relation to etymology and lexicology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Geeraerts |
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Melissa Bowermam |
Melissa Bowerman is Senior Scientist (emeritus) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and adjunct Professor of Linguistics (emer.) at the Free University of Amsterdam. She received her B.A. in psychology from Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in social psychology (psycholinguistics) from Harvard University. Her research focuses on first language acquisition in cross-linguistic perspective and its relationship to linguistic typology, and on the interface between semantics and cognition in adult language and in the developing child. Some more specific topics include spatial semantics, argument structure, and event representation. She is author of Early Syntactic Development: A Cross-Linguistic Study with Special Reference to Finnish (Cambridge University Press, 1973), and co-editor of Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability (Erlbaum, 2008), and Cutting and Breaking Events: A Crosslinguistic Perspective (special issue of Cognitive Linguistics, 2007). She serves on the editorial board of Cognitive Linguistics, Child Language, Language Learning and Development, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, and Human Cognitive Processing, and she is a former associate editor of Language and editorial board member of Cognition and Linguistics. Her work was recently honoured in Routes to language: Studies in honour of Melissa Bowerman (Gathercole, Ed., Erlbaum, 2008).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bowerman
http://www.mpi.nl/people/bowerman-melissa |
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William Croft |
William Croft received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Croft's areas of specialty are typology, semantics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar and evolutionary models of language change. His publications include Typology and Universals (2nd edition, 2003), Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations (1991), Explaining Language Change (2000), Radical Construction Grammar (2001) and Cognitive Linguistics (with Alan Cruse, 2004). Croft has held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft |
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Zoltán Kövecses |
Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He serves on the advisory board of several scholarly journals including Cognitive Linguistics and the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, and he is one of the associate editors of Metaphor and Symbol. His most recent books include Language, Mind, and Culture. A Practical Introduction, 2006, Oxford University Press; Metaphor in Culture. Universality and Variation, 2005, Cambridge University Press; Metaphor. A Practical Introduction, 2002, Oxford University Press; and Metaphor and Emotion, 2000, Cambridge University Press. He has taught and lectured widely at several American and European universities. He is currently working on the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.
http://das.elte.hu/content/faculty/kovecses/cv.html |
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