William Croft (linguist)
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William Croft is a 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 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 language
s. He is considered an influential scholar in the fields of functional and cognitive linguistics.
William Croft is a member of Save-the-Redwoods League
's Board of Councillors.
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 New Mexico
University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
, UK.
He is 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 language
Natural language
In the philosophy of language, a natural language is any language which arises in an unpremeditated fashion as the result of the innate facility for language possessed by the human intellect. A natural language is typically used for communication, and may be spoken, signed, or written...
s. He is considered an influential scholar in the fields of functional and cognitive linguistics.
William Croft is a member of Save-the-Redwoods League
Save-the-Redwoods League
The Save the Redwoods League is an organization dedicated to the protection of the remaining Coast Redwood trees in the state of California. It was founded in 1918 by Frederick Russell Burnham, Madison Grant, John C. Merriam, and Henry Fairfield Osborn....
's Board of Councillors.
Partial bibliography
- Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2004) with D. A. Cruse ISBN 0-521-66770-4
- Typology and Universals, 2nd ed. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (2003) ISBN 0-521-00499-3
- 1st ed. (1990) ISBN 0-521-36583-X
- Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective (2001) ISBN 0-19-829954-0