Laura Michaelis
Encyclopedia
Laura A. Michaelis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics
and a faculty fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder
.
-syntax interface in conversational English and the semantic interaction between words and grammatical constructions, with particular emphasis on the linguistic encoding of tense
and aspect
. She has published work in the journals Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The Journal of Semantics and The Journal of Pragmatics. Currently, her research focuses on the grammar of English noun phrases, verbal argument structure, and nonstandard syntactic amalgams in conversational speech. In addition, along with Charles J. Fillmore
, Paul Kay
and Ivan Sag
, she is presently writing a book about the formal foundations of Construction Grammar
.
She received her BA, MA and PhD in linguistics
at the University of California, Berkeley
, writing her thesis under the direction of Charles J. Fillmore
.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and a faculty fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
.
Background and Research
Professor Michaelis' research centers on the discourseDiscourse
Discourse generally refers to "written or spoken communication". The following are three more specific definitions:...
-syntax interface in conversational English and the semantic interaction between words and grammatical constructions, with particular emphasis on the linguistic encoding of tense
Tense
Tense may refer to:*Grammatical tense, a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs...
and aspect
Aspect
Aspect may be:*Aspect , a feature that is linked to many parts of a program, but which is not necessarily the primary function of the program...
. She has published work in the journals Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The Journal of Semantics and The Journal of Pragmatics. Currently, her research focuses on the grammar of English noun phrases, verbal argument structure, and nonstandard syntactic amalgams in conversational speech. In addition, along with Charles J. Fillmore
Charles J. Fillmore
Charles J. Fillmore is an American linguist, and an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961. Professor Fillmore spent ten years at The Ohio State University before joining Berkeley's...
, Paul Kay
Paul Kay
Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science...
and Ivan Sag
Ivan Sag
Ivan Sag is an American linguist and cognitive scientist. He is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities, Professor of Linguistics, and Director of the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University...
, she is presently writing a book about the formal foundations of Construction Grammar
Construction grammar
The term construction grammar covers a family of theories, or models, of grammar that are based on the idea that the primary unit of grammar is the grammatical construction rather than the atomic syntactic unit and the rule that combines atomic units, and that the grammar of a language is made up...
.
She received her BA, MA and PhD in linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, writing her thesis under the direction of Charles J. Fillmore
Charles J. Fillmore
Charles J. Fillmore is an American linguist, and an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1961. Professor Fillmore spent ten years at The Ohio State University before joining Berkeley's...
.
Books
- Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar (w/ Elaine J. Francis) CSLI Publications (2003) ISBN 1575863839
- Aspectual Grammar and Past-Time Reference. Routledge (1998) ISBN 0415156785
Publications
- Michaelis, Laura A. 2006. Time and Tense. In B. Aarts and A. MacMahon, (eds.), The Handbook of English Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 220-234.
- Brenier, Jason M. and Laura A. Michaelis. 2005. Optimization via Syntactic Amalgam: Syntax-Prosody Mismatch and Copula Doubling. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1: 45-88.
- Michaelis, Laura A. 2005. Entity and Event Coercion in a Symbolic Theory of Syntax. In J.-O. Oestman and M. Fried, (eds.), Construction Grammar(s): Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions. Constructional Approaches to Language, Volume 3. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 45-88.
- Michaelis, Laura A. 2004. Type Shifting in Construction Grammar: An Integrated Approach to Aspectual Coercion. Cognitive Linguistics 15: 1-67.