| Citizenship | USA |
| Education | |
| 1982 - 1986 | Stanford University, Department of Linguistics: Ph.D., October 1986 (Dissertation: "Categories and relations in syntax: the clause-level organization of information"; Joseph H. Greenberg, principal advisor) |
| 1979 | University of California, Davis: nonmatriculated student, International Relations |
| 1974 - 1978 | The University of Chicago: A.B. (general honors), Linguistics, June 1978; A.M., Linguistics, December 1978 |
| Positions | |
| 2006 - present | Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (Professor) |
| Courses taught:Grammatical Analysis, Morphosyntax, Introduction to Language Change, Semantic Analysis, Typology, Formal Syntactic Theories, Seminar on Typology of Information Structure, Seminar on Verbal Semantics | |
| Number of Ph.D theses supervised: | |
| 1 in progress (Erin Wilkinson); Dissertation committee member: 3 in progress | |
| 1994 - 2005 | Linguistics and English Language, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures (until 2004: Department of Linguistics), University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (Senior Research Fellow, 1994; Lecturer, 1994-1996; Reader, 1996-1998; Professor, 1999-2005) |
| Courses for lower-level undergraduates:Principles of Linguistics; Language, the Individual and Society; Discourse Analysis; Grammatical Semantics | |
| Courses for upper-level undergraduates and MA students:Typology; Cognitive Linguistics; Construction Grammar; Child Language; Pragmatics (co-taught); Grammatical Change (co-taught); Sociolinguistics [Speech Pathology students] | |
| Number of Ph.D theses supervised: | |
| Dissertations completed: 5 (Chiaki Taoka, Syed Zainal Ariff Syed Jamaluddin, Yoshikata Shibuya, Hiromi Azuma, Naoki Nakajima) | |
| 1986 - 1993 | Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (Assistant Professor) |
| General courses: Languages of the World, Introduction to Cognitive Science (co-taught), Introduction to Language (co-taught) | |
| Courses for undergraduate majors/beginning graduate students: Grammatical Analysis, Introduction to Cognitive Grammar, Functionalism and Typology, Semantics and Pragmatics, Theory of Natural Language Structure (cotaught), Verbal Semantics (undergraduate seminar) | |
| Courses for graduate students: Advanced Typology, Advanced Semantics and Pragmatics, Cognitive Approaches to Grammar (seminar), Functional Linguistics (seminar), Topics in Typology (seminar) | |
| Number of Ph.D. theses supervised: | |
| Dissertation chair: 2 (Timothy Clausner, Satoshi Uehara); Dissertation committee member: 2 | |
| 1981 - 1982 | Regional Civil Engineer - Western Region, U.S. Air Force, San Francisco, California, USA (Computer Specialist) |
| 1981 | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, San Francisco, California, USA (Program Analyst) |
| 1979 - 1981 | Headquarters, Military Sealift Command, U.S. Navy, Baileys Crossroads, Virginia, USA (Program Analyst) |
| Visiting appointments | |
| 2009, July | Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Berkeley, California, USA (Instructor, "Construction grammar and typology") | 2007, July | International Summer Atelier, Modeling Language Evolution with Computational Construction Grammar, Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy (Tutorial and master class on construction grammar, lecture and master class on evolution and grammaticalization, panel on evolution and language) |
| 2006, May | Symposium on Cognitive Patterns in Language, Institute for Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (Visiting professor, Master class) |
| 2005, Jun-July | Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Harvard/MIT, USA (Instructor, "Syntactic Categories: Formal and Functionalist Approaches" [with Mark Baker]) |
| 2004, October | Institut for Nordiske Studier og Sprogvidenskab, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark (Visitng professor, Master class) |
| 2003-2004 | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, USA (Fellow) |
| 2003 [declined] | Summerschool in Typology, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy (Lecturer) |
| 2003, June | Summerschool in Cognitive and Functional Linguistics, The International Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies, University of San Marino, San Marino (Lecturer) |
| 2002, March | Linguistics Program, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (Visiting Professor) |
| 2002, August | Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany (Visiting Research Scientist) |
| 2001, April | Dipartimento di Filologia Moderna, Università degli studi di Napoli «Federico II», Naples, Italy (Visiting Professor, Socrates programme) |
| 2000, January | National Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) Winterschool, Leiden, the Netherlands (Lecturer, "Language Typology") |
| 1999-2000 | Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany (Visiting Research Scientist) |
| 1999, December | Department of Language and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Visiting Professor) |
| 1998, Aug-Sept | Sommerschule der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Mainz, Germany (Lecturer, "Typology and Cognition") |
| 1996, Jun-July | Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Visiting Research Scientist) |
| 1996, May | Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Mainz, Germany (Visiting Professor) |
| 1995, Jun-Aug | Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (Instructor, "Introduction to Syntax" [undergraduates]) |
| 1995, May | Institutionen för Lingvistik, Lunds Universitet, Sweden (Visiting Professor, Erasmus programme) |
| 1995, April | Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy (Professore a contratto) |
| 1993, Sept-Dec | Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Visiting Research Scientist) |
| 1993, Jan-Aug | Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, California, USA (Visiting Research Scientist) |
| 1993 [declined] | Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Ciudad de la Investigación en Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México (Lecturer, Typology) |
| 1992, July | Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Visiting Research Scientist) |
| 1989, Sept | III. Sommerschule der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Hamburg, Germany (Lecturer, "Cognitive Categories") |
| 1987, Jun-Aug | Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Stanford University, USA (Instructor, "Semantic Typology and Commonsense Reasoning" [with Jerry Hobbs]) |
| 1987, Jun-Aug; 1986, Jun-Aug | Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA (Consultant) |
| Grants and Awards | |
| 2008 | Resource Allocation Committee grant, University of New Mexico: "Quantifying Semantic Shifts in Reconstructing Language Families"; one research associate supervised |
| 1998 - 1999 | British Academy Humanities Research Board, Research Leave Scheme: released from duties for Autumn Semester 1998-99 to complete manuscript on language change. |
| 1996 - 1997 | Research Support Fund, University of Manchester: "The Typology of Attributive Constructions"; one research associate supervised. |
| 1992 | Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan: research on lexical semantic change; one research assistant supervised. |
| 1991 | Office of the Vice President for Research Discretionary Funds, University of Michigan: summer research assistant support for "A Framework for Descriptive Grammars". |
| 1991 | International Partnerships Grant, University of Michigan: German-American workshop on a framework for descriptive grammars, Ann Arbor, 1-7 April 1991. |
| 1990 - 1993 | National Science Foundation [William Croft and Bernard Comrie, principal investigators]: "A Framework for Descriptive Grammars"; one research assistant supervised. |
| 1988 - 1991 | Presidential Initiatives Fund, University of Michigan [Steven Lytinen, project director; William Croft, Susan Gelman and John Laird, collaborators]: "A Cognitive Science Model of Language Acquisition"; one research assistant supervised. |
| 1988 | Rackham Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan: to complete manuscript for volume on typology and universals. |
| 1987 - 1988 | Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan: development of and teaching assistant for the course "Grammatical Analysis". |
| University Administration | |
| University of New Mexico | |
| 2008 - 2009 | Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics |
| 2006 - 2009 | Graduate Committee, Department of Linguistics (Chair, 2006-2008) |
| 2006 - 2008 | Personnel Committee, Department of Linguistic (Chair, 2007-2008) |
| 2006 - present | Executive Committee, Department of Linguistics |
| University of Manchester | |
| 2004 - 2005 | Postgraduate Recruitment Officer, Linguistics and English Language, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures |
| 2004 - 2005 | Tutor, Single Honour students in Linguistics, Linguistics and English Language, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures |
| 2001 - 2002 | Arts Faculty Working Group on Teaching Assistants and University Graduate Teaching Assistant Working Group |
| 2001 - 2003 | Postgraduate Recruitment Officer, Department of Linguistics |
| 2000 - 2003 | Promotions Committee, School of English & Linguistics |
| 2000 - 2003 | Tutor, Single Honour students in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics |
| 1997 - 99, 2000-1, 2002-3 | Examinations Officer, Department of Linguistics |
| 1997 - 1998 | University Library Committee |
| 1996 - 2000 | University Senate (elected member, 1996-1999; ex officio member, 1999-2000) |
| 1995 - 1999 | Secretary to the Departmental Board, Department of Linguistics |
| 1995 - 1999 | Tutor, Joint Honours students in Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Department of Linguistics |
| 1994 - 1997 | Library Officer [acquisitions], Department of Linguistics |
| 1994 - 1997 | Board of Studies, Speech Pathology Programme |
| University of Michigan | |
| 1991 - 1992 | Cognitive Science Study Committee |
| 1991 | Proposal reviewer, International Partnerships Program |
| 1989 - 1991 | Curriculum Committee, Program in Linguistics (Co-chair, 1990-1991) |
| 1987 - 1989 | Executive Committee, Cognitive Science and Machine Intelligence Laboratory |
| 1986 - 1989 | Steering Committee, Program in Linguistics |
| Professional Activities | |
| 2004 - present | Editorial Board, Constructional Approaches to Language |
| 1994 - present | Coeditor, Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory |
| 1992 - present | Editorial Board, Studies in Language Companion Series |
| 2009 - present | Consulting Editor, Constructions and Frames |
| 1992 - present | Consulting Editor, Linguistics |
| 1989 - present | Consulting Editor, Cognitive Linguistics |
| 1992 - present | Advisory Board, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| 1992 - present | Advisory Board, Languages of the World |
| 1992 - present | Consulting Editor, Studies in Language |
| ongoing | Manuscript reviews: Language, Journal of Linguistics, Lingua, Folia Linguistica, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Journal of Semantics, Journal of Pragmatics, Functions of Language, Linguistic Typology, Diachronica, Anthropological Linguistics, Journal of Child Language, International Journal of American Linguistics, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Himalayan Linguistics, Linguistic Discovery, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Foundations of Science; Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Longman, Basil Blackwell, University of Chicago Press, MIT Press, Edinburgh University Press |
| ongoing | Proposal reviews: National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), National Science Foundation (USA); Economic & Social Science Research Council (UK); British Academy (UK); Leverhulme Trust (UK); Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK); Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands), Vetenkskapsprådet (Sweden); Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria), Max Planck Gesellschaft (Germany) |
| Professional Organizations | |
| 2001 - present | International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology |
| 1996 - present | Association for Linguistic Typology (founding member) |
| 1996 - 2005 | The Philological Society |
| 1994 - 2005 | Linguistics Association of Great Britain |
| 1993 - present | Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
| 1989 - present | International Cognitive Linguistics Association |
| 1983 - present | Linguistic Society of America |
| Other Activities | |
| 1987 - present | Governing Council, Save-the-Redwoods League (Research Committee, 2000 - present) |
| 1990 - 1992 | Producer and announcer, Medieval Radio, WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor. Michigan |
| 1987 - 1992 | Instructor, University of Michigan Folkdance Club |
| 1978 - 1986 | Producer and announcer, The Early Music Program, KPFA-FM, Berkeley, California |
| 1975 - 1978 | Producer and announcer, various music programs, WHPK-FM, Chicago, Ill. |