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William Croft (born November 13, 1956) is an American professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.

He is the inventor of and advocate for radical construction grammar, which among other things uses box-diagrams to compare and contrast the grammatical features of different natural languages.[1] He is considered an influential scholar in the fields of functional and cognitive linguistics.[2]

William Croft is a member of Save the Redwoods League's Board of Councillors.[3]

Partial bibliography

• Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations: The Cognitive Organization of Information (1991) ISBN 978-0226120904
• Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach (2001) ISBN 978-0582356771
• Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective (2001) ISBN 0-19-829954-0
• Typology and Universals, 2nd ed. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2003) ISBN 0-521-00499-3
  • 1st ed. (1990) ISBN 0-521-36583-X
• Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2004) with D. A. Cruse ISBN 0-521-66770-4
• Verbs: aspect and causal structure (2012) ISBN 978-0199248582

References

External links

• Faculty page at the University of New Mexico

На других языках

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[de] William Croft (Linguist)

William Croft (* 1956) ist ein US-amerikanischer Linguist.

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- [en] William Croft (linguist)

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[ru] Крофт, Уильям (лингвист)

Уильям Крофт — американский лингвист, работающий в Великобритании. Член Ассоциации лингвистической типологии. Входит в редколлегию журнала «Linguistic Typology».

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