William A. Croft
List of John Benjamins publications in which William A. Croft is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1573-594X
Typological Studies in Language
Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Jean-Christophe Verstraete
ISSN 0167-7373
Journal
Title
Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday
Edited by William A. Croft, Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning
Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 20] 1990. xxxiv, 243 pp.
2024 Philosophical reflections on the future of construction grammar (or, confessions of a Radical Construction Grammarian) Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?, Boas, Hans C., Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt (eds.), pp. 191–219 | Article
Many issues face construction grammar today. I start with the role of usage in construction grammar, and trace the changes in the usage-based model from mental storage to social interaction to evolution of populations of speakers and utterances. Just as speech communities and linguistic… read more
2021 A sociolinguistic typology for languages in contact Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 23–56 | Chapter
Different types of languages evolve in situations of human social contact, depending on the nature of the contact and the attitudes on the part of the speakers towards the societies in contact. Three socially-defined language types are useful for classifying contact languages. One may… read more
2011 Language as a process Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 241–260 | Article
Language is not the result state of some type of learning process, but is a process itself, so that there is complete continuity in kind between what an infant is doing and what an adult is doing with language. This chapter describes three fundamental language processes undertaken by children and… read more
2010 Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar, Boas, Hans C. (ed.), pp. 201–236 | Article
2009 Toward a social cognitive linguistics New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics, Evans, Vyvyan and Stéphanie Pourcel (eds.), pp. 395–420 | Article
2009 Connecting frames and constructions: A case study of 'eat' and 'feed' Constructions and Frames 1:1, pp. 7–28 | Article
Constructional analysis of corpus data can contribute to the analysis of a semantic frame, as demonstrated by a small corpus study of eat and feed. The EAT/FEED frame forms part of a taxonomy of frames including the superordinate CONSUME frame and subordinate frames of human vs. animal eating;… read more
2007 Form, meaning and speakers in the evolution of language: Commentary on Kirby, Smith and Brighton What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 139–142 | Article
2007 Beyond Aristotle and gradience: A reply to Aarts Studies in Language 31:2, pp. 409–430 | Article
Aarts (2004) argues that the best way to model grammatical categories is a compromise preserving Aristotelian form classes with sharp boundaries on the one hand, and allowing gradience in terms of the number of syntactic properties that a category member possesses on the other. But the assumption… read more
2006 The relevance of an evolutionary model to historical linguistics Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond, Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole (ed.), pp. 91–132 | Article
2005 Logical and typological arguments for Radical Construction Grammar Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions, Östman, Jan-Ola and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 273–314 | Chapter
2004 Form, meaning and speakers in the evolution of language: Commentary on Kirby, Smith and Brighton What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 608–611 | Article
2003 Lexical rules vs. constructions: A false dichotomy Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden, Cuyckens, Hubert, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther (eds.), pp. 49–68 | Article
2000 Construal operations in linguistics and artificial intelligence Meaning and Cognition: A multidisciplinary approach, Albertazzi, Liliana (ed.), pp. 51–78 | Chapter
This essay deals with one of the fundamental aspects of the semantics of cognitive linguistics, namely the nature of construal operations, and this entails reference to the conceptualization of the described situation in the mind of the language user. In expounding the conceptualist approach to… read more
1999 What (Some) Functionalists Can Learn from (Some) Formalists Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 87–110 | Article
1995 Review of Klaiman (1991): Grammatical voice Studies in Language 19:2, pp. 553–562 | Review
1994 Voice: Beyond Control and Affectedness Voice: Form and Function, Fox, Barbara A. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 89–118 | Article
1990 Typology and diachrony in the work of Joseph H. Greenberg Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. ix–xviii | Miscellaneous
1987 Diachronic semantic processes in the middel voice Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 179–192 | Article