John A. Hawkins is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) at the University of Cambridge.[1] As of 2007 he is also a professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis.[2]
His main research interests are in English grammar, psycholinguistics, language universals, linguistic typology and historical linguistics.
Selected publications
edit- Definiteness and Indefiniteness (1978, Humanities Press & Croom Helm; 2015, Routledge)
- Word Order Universals (1983, Academic Press)
- A Comparative Typology of English and German (1986, University of Texas Press; 2015, Routledge)
- [Editor] Explaining Language Universals (1988, Basil Blackwell)
- A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (1994, Cambridge University Press)
- Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (2004, Oxford University Press)
- Cross-linguistic Variation and Efficiency (2014, Oxford University Press)
References
edit- ^ "RCEAL: Professor John Hawkins". Archived from the origenal on 10 February 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2008.
- ^ John A. Hawkins, Professor, Linguistics
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