John A. Hawkins

John A. Hawkins

John A. Hawkins is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. [ [http://www.rceal.cam.ac.uk/People/Staffpages/jah91.html RCEAL: Professor John Hawkins ] ] As of 2007 he is also a professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis. [ [http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/jack-hawkins UC Davis: Linguistics : John A. Hawkins: New Faculty Member ] ]

His main research interests are in English grammar, psycholinguistics, language universals, linguistic typology and historical linguistics.

elected publications

*Definiteness and Indefiniteness (1978, Humanities Press & Croom Helm)
*Word Order Universals (1983, Academic Press)
*A Comparative Typology of English and German (1986, Routledge & University of Texas Press)
*A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (1994, Cambridge University Press)
*Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (2004, Oxford University Press)

References

External links

* [http://www.rceal.cam.ac.uk/People/Staffpages/jah91.html Hawkins at the University of Cambridge]
* [http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/People/jhawkins Hawkins at UC Davis]


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