Adele Goldberg (linguist)
| Adele Eva Goldberg | |
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| Born | November 9, 1963 |
| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Cognitive linguistics Cognitive science |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Construction Grammar |
| Website website |
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Adele Eva Goldberg (born November 9, 1963) is an American linguist, best known for the Construction Grammar approach to Cognitive linguistics, which emphasizes that speakers' knowledge of language consists of systematic collections of form and function pairings that are learned on the basis of the language they hear around them.[1]
Life
In 1985, Goldberg received a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from University of Pennsylvania. She received an M.A. in 1989 in linguistics, and in 1992 a PhD in linguistics, both from the University of California, studying with George Lakoff. She is married to Ali Yazdani, a professor of physics.
Work
Since 2004, she has been a professor at Princeton University in psychology and linguistics. From 1997-2004, she was employed at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Associate Professor of linguistics. From 1997 to 1998, she was Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego where she helped to design and implement a new Cognitive Science course.
Goldberg's research focus is on the psychology of language, including theoretical and experimental aspects of grammar and its representation, acquisition of form-function correspondences, and syntactic priming. Her works aim to illuminate parallels between language and other cognitive processes.
Awards
- 2014- Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.
- 2010-2014 Visiting Fellow, Einstein Foundation. Freie Universitat, Berlin.
- 2003-2004.Fellow at Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences. Stanford, California.
- 2000. Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study, UIUC.
- 1996 Gustave O. Arlt Book Award. North American Graduate Council for Constructions (1995)
Selected publications
- 2009: The Nature of Generalization in Language (a concise overview of the book "Constructions at Work"). Cognitive Linguistics 20 1: 93-127
- 2006: Constructions at Work: the nature of generalization in language. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006. ISBN 9780199268528
- 1995: Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. University of Chicago Press, Chigago. ISBN 0226300862
References
- ↑ Adele E. Goldberg (2009) The Nature of Generalization in Language (a concise overview of the book "Constructions at Work"). Cognitive Linguistics 20 1: 93-127.
