John A. Hawkins
Encyclopedia
John A. Hawkins is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics
at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) at the University of Cambridge
. As of 2007 he is also a professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis.
His main research interests are in English grammar
, psycholinguistics
, language universals, linguistic typology
and historical linguistics
.
Applied linguistics
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems...
at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. As of 2007 he is also a professor in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis.
His main research interests are in English grammar
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Initial forays into psycholinguistics were largely philosophical ventures, due mainly to a lack of cohesive data on how the...
, language universals, linguistic typology
Linguistic typology
Linguistic typology is a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the world's languages...
and historical linguistics
Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages...
.
Selected 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)