Mark Davies (linguist)

Mark Davies is a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University (BYU). He specialises in the creation of corpora of words in order to better study and understand their meaning.

Davies earned a bachelors degree with a double major in linguistics and Spanish from BYU in 1986. He earned an MA in Spanish linguistics also from BYU in 1989. He earned his Ph.D. in Iberoromance philology and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992.

From 1993-2003 Davies was a professor at Illinois State University. He has been on the BYU faculty since 2003. In 2008 he held the Barker Lectureship at BYU.

Publications

• (with Dee Gardner) A Frequency Dictionary of American English: Word Sketches, Collocates, and Thematic Lists. published by Routledge. 2010.
• Co-edited with Stefan Th. Gries and Stefanie Wulff. Corpus linguistic applications: current studies, new directions. published by Rodopi. 2009.
• Co-authored with Ana Maria Raposo Preto-Bay. A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese: Core Vocabulary for Learners. Published by Routledge. 2007.
• A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners. Routledge. 2005.
• El uso del Corpus del Español y otros corpus para investigar la variación actual y los cambios históricos. published by University Sophia in Tokyo. 2004.

Sources

• Davies Vita
• Deseret News, March 13, 2011
• University of Alabama announcemet of speech by Davies
• BYU bio page of Davies
• Spanish Language gateway article describing Davies contributions
• Salt Lake Tribune June 7, 2006
• Fox News June 15, 2006 article discussing Davies and his corpuses