William Croft (linguist)

William Croft (linguist)

William Croft (born November 13, 1956) 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 languages.

William Croft is a member of Save-the-Redwoods League's Board of Councilors and an ancient tree aficionado.

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

External links

* [http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft Faculty page at the University of New Mexico]


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