William Croft is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK. His primary research interests are typology, construction grammar, semantics (especially verbs), cognitive linguistics and evolutionary models of language change. He has held visiting appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen) and Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford). He has taught at a number of summer schools in Europe and the US. His recent books include Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach (Longman); Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective (Oxford University Press); Typology and Universals, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press) and (with D. A. Cruse) Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge University Press). He is currently working on a monograph on verbal semantics, aspect and argument structure.

Syntactic Categories: Formal and Functionalist Approaches | LSA.127
with Mark Baker
TR 4:50-6:30
Three Week Course | First Session